| 21781 | February 26 | Birth | 1861 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian soldier and politician (d. 1939) |
| 21782 | February 26 | Birth | 1866 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (d. 1930) |
| 21783 | February 26 | Birth | 1877 – Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (d. 1968) |
| 21784 | February 26 | Birth | 1879 – Frank Bridge, English violist and composer (d. 1941) |
| 21785 | February 26 | Birth | 1880 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer, economist, and engineer (d. 1972) |
| 21786 | February 26 | Birth | 1882 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968) |
| 21787 | February 26 | Birth | 1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian farmer and politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 1969) |
| 21788 | February 26 | Birth | 1887 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (d. 1950) |
| 21789 | February 26 | Birth | 1887 – William Frawley, American actor and singer (d. 1966) |
| 21790 | February 26 | Birth | 1887 – Stefan Grabiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1936) |
| 21791 | February 26 | Birth | 1893 – Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (d. 1934) |
| 21792 | February 26 | Birth | 1893 – I. A. Richards, English educator and critic (d. 1979) |
| 21793 | February 26 | Birth | 1896 – Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 1948) |
| 21794 | February 26 | Birth | 1899 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician, 54th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1994) |
| 21795 | February 26 | Birth | 1900 – Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet (d. 1989) |
| 21796 | February 26 | Birth | 1900 – Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer (d. 1988) |
| 21797 | February 26 | Birth | 1901 – Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (d. 2007) |
| 21798 | February 26 | Birth | 1902 – Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (d. 1991) |
| 21799 | February 26 | Birth | 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |
| 21800 | February 26 | Birth | 1903 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (d. 1944) |
| 21801 | February 26 | Birth | 1906 – Madeleine Carroll, English-Spanish actress (d. 1987) |
| 21802 | February 26 | Birth | 1907 – Dub Taylor, American actor and singer (d. 1994) |
| 21803 | February 26 | Birth | 1908 – Tex Avery, American animator, producer, and voice actor (d. 1980) |
| 21804 | February 26 | Birth | 1908 – Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (d. 2007) |
| 21805 | February 26 | Birth | 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949) |
| 21806 | February 26 | Birth | 1909 – Fanny Cradock, English chef, author, and critic (d. 1994) |
| 21807 | February 26 | Birth | 1909 – Talal of Jordan (d. 1972) |
| 21808 | February 26 | Birth | 1910 – Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (d. 1974) |
| 21809 | February 26 | Birth | 1911 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (d. 1996) |
| 21810 | February 26 | Birth | 1912 – Dane Clark, American actor and director (d. 1998) |