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In 1997, she won a Young Artist Award for her performance in CBS' sitcom Meego.
Notable Deaths on February 26
2025 — Michelle Trachtenberg
American actress (born 1985)
February 26 has 89 recorded notable deaths across history, from 420 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
89 source records
420 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on February 26
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- 1929 President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km2) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Source
- 1966 Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. Source
- 1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park. Source
- 1606 The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea. Source
Did you know
Robert R. Livingston was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years.
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Yet Dumas was the first person of color in the French military to become brigadier general, divisional general, and general-in-chief of a French army.
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Theodor Eicke continued to expand and develop the concentration camp system as the first Concentration Camps Inspector.
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The show's first run in syndication, with Judge Wapner presiding as judge, ran from 1981 to 1993, for 12 seasons and 2,340 episodes.
More major people who died on February 26
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1813
Robert R. Livingston
American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (born 1746)
Robert Robert Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States.
1806
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Haitian-French general (born 1762)
Army-General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars.
1943
Theodor Eicke
German general (born 1892)
Theodor Eicke was a German military officer who served as both a senior SS functionary and a Waffen-SS divisional commander in Nazi Germany. He was a key figure in the development of Nazi concentration camps.
2017
Joseph Wapner
American judge and TV personality (born 1919)
Joseph Albert Wapner was an American judge and television personality. He is best known as the first presiding judge of the reality court show The People's Court.
1266
Manfred
King of Sicily (born 1232)
Manfred was the last King of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen dynasty, reigning from 1258 until his death.
1936
February 26 Incident:
Viscount Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1932 to 1934.
1952
Theodoros Pangalos
Greek general and politician, President of Greece (born 1878)
Theodoros Pangalos was a Greek general, politician and dictator, who ruled Greece from 24 June 1925 to 22 August 1926.
1930
Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist (born 1863)
Mary Whiton Calkins was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self.
2013
Stéphane Hessel
German-French diplomat and author (born 1917)
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939.
1815
Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (born 1737)
General Field Marshal Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was an Austrian army officer who served in the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor.
1790
Joshua Rowley
English admiral (born 1730)
Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer who served in the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War and American War of Independence.
1839
Sybil Ludington
American figure of the American Revolutionary War (born 1761)
Sybil Ludington was an alleged heroine of the American Revolution and daughter of Patriot colonel Henry Ludington.
1349
Fatima bint al-Ahmar
Nasrid princess in the Emirate of Granada (born c.1260)
Fatima bint Muhammad bint al-Ahmar was a Nasrid princess of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state on the Iberian Peninsula.
1802
Esek Hopkins
American admiral (born 1718)
Esek Hopkins was an American privateer, politician and military officer.
1981
Robert Aickman
English author and activist (born 1914)
Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer and conservationist.
1625
Anna Vasa of Sweden
Polish and Swedish princess (born 1568)
Anna Vasa of Sweden was a Swedish princess heavily involved in the politics of that country and of Poland. She was starosta of Brodnica and Golub.
2014
Sorel Etrog
Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (born 1933)
Sorel Etrog, was a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer, and primarily, a sculptor. He specialized in modern art works and contemporary sculpture.
1638
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac
French mathematician and linguist (born 1581)
Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
1883
Alexandros Koumoundouros
Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1817)
Alexandros Koumoundouros was a Greek politician and founder of the Nationalist Party, who served as Prime Minister of Greece ten times, from 1865 to 1867, 1870 to 1871, and from 1875 to 1882.