What happened on February 26 ?

1154 - King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)

1266 - King Manfred of Sicily

1360 - Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)

1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler

1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer

1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer

1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)

1608 - John Still, English bishop

1630 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)

1638 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)

1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)

1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)

1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)

1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)

1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)

1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)

1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)

1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)

1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)

1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)

1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)

1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)

1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)

1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)

1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)

1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)

1985 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1910)

1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)

1993 - Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)

1994 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)

1995 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b.1921)

1997 - David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)

1998 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)

2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)

2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)

2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)

2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)