On this day: February 26

National days on this date

• Khojaly Remembrance DayRemembers the civilians killed in Khojaly in 1992.

Births

1. 1935 Artur Rasizade 6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan
2. 1950 Vitaliy Eliseyev Soviet rower
3. 1954 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of Turkey since 2014
4. 1959 Ahmet Davutoğlu Turkish statesperson and writer (born 1959)
5. 1981 Kevin Dallman Canadian ice hockey player
6. 1982 Elkhan Mammadov Azerbaijani judoka
7. 1984 Beren Saat Turkish actor (born 1984)
8. 1985 Zibeyda Sadigova Azerbaijani human rights lawyer
9. 1989 Anastassiya Bannova Kazakhstani archer
10. 2004 Bibisara Assaubayeva Kazakhstani chess player

Deaths

1. 1939 Levon Mirzoyan Soviet politician (1897-1939)
2. 1992 Alif Hajiyev Azerbaijani war hero (1953-1992)
3. 2020 Isgandar Hamidov Azerbaijani politician (1948–2020)