| 22021 | February 26 | Death | 1966 – Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (b. 1894) |
| 22022 | February 26 | Death | 1966 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883) |
| 22023 | February 26 | Death | 1969 – Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895) |
| 22024 | February 26 | Death | 1969 – Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883) |
| 22025 | February 26 | Death | 1971 – Fernandel, French actor and singer (b. 1903) |
| 22026 | February 26 | Death | 1981 – Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914) |
| 22027 | February 26 | Death | 1981 – Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896) |
| 22028 | February 26 | Death | 1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| 22029 | February 26 | Death | 1989 – Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911) |
| 22030 | February 26 | Death | 1990 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters, The Platters, and The Flairs) (b. 1938) |
| 22031 | February 26 | Death | 1993 – Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923) |
| 22032 | February 26 | Death | 1994 – Bill Hicks, American comedian and singer (b. 1961) |
| 22033 | February 26 | Death | 1995 – Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921) |
| 22034 | February 26 | Death | 1997 – David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929) |
| 22035 | February 26 | Death | 1998 – James Algar, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912) |
| 22036 | February 26 | Death | 1998 – Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) |
| 22037 | February 26 | Death | 1998 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient (b. 1923) |
| 22038 | February 26 | Death | 2000 – George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913) |
| 22039 | February 26 | Death | 2001 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (b. 1906) |
| 22040 | February 26 | Death | 2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919) |
| 22041 | February 26 | Death | 2003 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (b. 1928) |
| 22042 | February 26 | Death | 2004 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Finance (b. 1920) |
| 22043 | February 26 | Death | 2004 – Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905) |
| 22044 | February 26 | Death | 2004 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956) |
| 22045 | February 26 | Death | 2005 – Jef Raskin, American computer scientist, created Macintosh (b. 1943) |
| 22046 | February 26 | Death | 2008 – Dick Fletcher, American meteorologist (b. 1942) |
| 22047 | February 26 | Death | 2008 – Buddy Miles, American drummer and songwriter (Band of Gypsys and The Electric Flag) (b. 1947) |
| 22048 | February 26 | Death | 2009 – Johnny Kerr, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1932) |
| 22049 | February 26 | Death | 2009 – Wendy Richard, English actress and singer (b. 1943) |
| 22050 | February 26 | Death | 2009 – Norm Van Lier, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1947) |