Famous People Born on February 26
Famous people born on February 26 include Victor Hugo (1802), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) and Johnny Cash (1932).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey
Johnny Cash
The Man in Black, country music legend
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006
Christopher Marlowe
English playwright and poet (1564–1593)
Ahmet Davutoğlu
Prime Minister of Turkey from 2014 to 2016
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Wife of Vladimir Lenin (1869–1939)
Michel Houellebecq
French writer (born 1956)
Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian and American chemist (1946–2016)
Pepe
Portuguese footballer (born 1983)
François Arago
French physicist and astronomer (1786–1853)
Emmanuel Adebayor
Togolese footballer (born 1984)
Giulio Natta
Italian chemist (1903–1979)
Li Na
Chinese tennis player
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Norwegian footballer and manager (born 1973)
Honoré Daumier
French artist (1808–1879)
Camille Flammarion
French astronomer and author (1842–1925)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
Otto Wallach
German chemist (1847–1931)
Joseph de Maistre
Savoyard political philosopher (1753–1821)
Levi Eshkol
Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 to 1969
Michelle Trachtenberg
American actress (1985–2025)
Carl Menger
Founder of the Austrian School of economics (1840–1921)
Theodore Schultz
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1902–1998)
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian composer and violinist (1692–1770)
Roger II of Sicily
King of Sicily from 1130 to 1154
Tjalling Koopmans
American mathematician (1910–1985)
Sources
- February 26 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths