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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, February 26


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Births

* 1973 Marshall Faulk Former American football running back in the National Football League for the Indianapolis Colts and the St Louis Rams.
* 1960 Roger Lewis Welsh biographer.
* 1957 Tzachi Hanegbi Israeli politician.
* 1954 Recep Tayyip Erdogan Prime minister of the Republic of Turkey.
* 1950 Helen Clark New Zealand politician who served as the 37th Prime Minister in three successive terms from 1999 to 2008.
* 1935 Jane Wagner American playwright and actress, best known as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator, and companion.
* 1932 Johnny Cash Born J R Cash and most famous as Johnny Cash, was a vastly influential American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter.
* 1928 Ariel Sharon Major-general in the Israeli army, Israeli politician and Prime Minister 2001–2006.
* 1918 Theodore Sturgeon American Science-Fiction writer, essayist, and poet.
* 1913 George Barker English poet and author.
* 1897 Princess Elizabeth Bibesco English writer and poet, active between 1921 and 1940.
* 1894 Wilhelm Bittrich Obergruppenführer of the German SS and a Waffen-SS General during World War II He is perhaps now best remembered for his contribution to the defeat of the failed allied airborne offensive Operation Market Garden which took place in the Netherlands in September of 1944.
* 1859 Basil King Canadian-born clergyman and author.
* 1839 John Pentland Mahaffy Irish classical scholar.
* 1802 Victor Hugo Recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet.
* 1786 Francois Arago French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.
* 1729 Anders Chydenius Swedish-Finnish priest and member of the Riksdag of the Estates.
* 1715 Claude Adrien Helvetius French philosopher and littérateur.
* 1671 Anthony Ashley-Cooper English philosopher and politician.
* 1564 Christopher Marlowe English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

Deaths

† 2005 Jef Raskin Expert in human-computer interaction who began the Macintosh project for Apple Computer.
† 1994 Bill Hicks American stand-up comedian, satirist and social critic.
† 1988 Swami Narayanananda Teacher of the Vedanta philosophy.
† 1987 Paul Taunton Matthews British theoretical particle physicist.
† 1969 Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist and philosopher.
† 1966 Gino Severini Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement and signed in 1910 the Manifesto of the Futurists together with his fellow Italians: Boccione, Carr? and Balla.
† 1954 William Ralph Inge Popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.
† 1909 Theodore L. Cuyler Presbyterian minister and religious writer in the United States.
† 1896 Arsene Houssaye Born Ars?ne Housset, was a French novelist, poet and man of letters.
† 1823 John Philip Kemble English actor.
† 1821 Joseph de Maistre Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher.
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