Deaths on February 26
This archive lists notable deaths associated with February 26 across multiple years. For the specific 2026 archive, see Deaths on February 26, 2026.
Dobrivoje Trivić
Serbian footballer (FK Vojvodina
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Timothy Donaldson
Bahamian banker
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Donald Thompson
American Olympic fencer and academic
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Donald R. Deskins
American football player (Oakland Raiders)
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Sung Chan-gyeong
South Korean poet
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Giovanni D’Ascenzi
Italian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Kaoru Shimamura
Japanese voice actress
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Harold G. Clarke
American judge
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Eugene P. Sheehy
American academic librarian
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Randolph Bromery
American educator
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Maya Jackson Randall
American financial journalist (The Wall Street Journal)
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Marie-Claire Alain
French organist
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
William Perehudoff
Canadian painter
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Marco McMillian
American businessman and political candidate
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Huynh Van Cao
Vietnamese politician and major general (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Adrian Hollis
English correspondence chess grandmaster
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Stéphane Hessel
German-born French author and diplomat
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Tom Griffin
American aviator
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Bert Flugelman
Australian sculptor
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Jan Howard Finder
American science fiction writer
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
James Ferguson
Canadian politician
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
Joseph Dear
American civil servant
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Chua Sian Chin
Singaporean politician
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
K. S. Balachandran
Sri Lankan actor
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Irv Wisniewski
American football and basketball player and coach
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Tim Wilson
American stand-up comedian and country music singer
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Michael Taylor
American convicted murderer
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Frankie Sardo
American rock and roll musician
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Frank Reed
American soul singer (The Chi-Lites)
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Dezső Novák
Hungarian Olympic champion football player (1964
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Phyllis Krasilovsky
American children's author
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Georges Hamel
Canadian country music singer-songwriter
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Wayne Frye
American Olympic champion rower (1952)
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Sorel Etrog
Canadian sculptor
Died on Wednesday February 26th 2014
Nadia Hilou
Israeli social worker and politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Theodore Hesburgh
American Roman Catholic priest
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Sheppard Frere
British historian and archaeologist
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Carlos Talbott
American air force lieutenant general
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Monroe H. Freedman
American professor of law
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Hukam Singh
Indian politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Sadiq Fakir
Pakistani singer
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Tom Schweich
American politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Angelo Raffaele Dinardo
Italian politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Avijit Roy
Bangladeshi-American writer
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Oscar Díaz
American welterweight boxer
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Fritz J. Raddatz
German feuilletonist
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Ruth Denison
German-born American Buddhist teacher
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Martin T. Smith
American politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Brian Cumby
British shipwright
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Rowley Richards
Australian WWII Army medical officer
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Anthony R. Cucci
American politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Franklin Quitugua
Guamanian politician
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Martha Cohen
Canadian philanthropist
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Curt Michel
American astrophysicist
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Bob Braithwaite
British Olympian trap shooter
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Branislav Martinović
Serbian Olympic wrestler (1960
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Jessica Ainscough
Australian alternative therapy campaigner
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Earl Lloyd
American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Meera Kosambi
Indian sociologist
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015
Per Olof Hulth
Swedish astroparticle physicist
Died on Thursday February 26th 2015