Updated February 25, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the garage of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
On Feb. 26, 1852, John Harvey Kellogg, the American physician who developed dry cereal, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1943, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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Historic Birthdays
John Harvey Kellogg 2/26/1852 – 12/14/1943 American physician who developed dry cereal.Go to obituary »
58 Wenceslas 2/26/1361 – 8/16/1419
German king (as Wenceslas IV, King of Bohemia)56 Archibald Argyll 2/26/1629 – 6/30/1685
Scottish Protestant leader83 Victor Hugo 2/26/1802 – 5/22/1885
French poet, novelist and dramatist70 William F. Cody 2/26/1846 – 1/10/1917
American buffalo hunter and Indian scout71 Honore Daumier 2/26/1808-2/10/1879
French caricaturist, painter and sculptor64 Herbert H. Dow 2/26/1866 – 10/15/1930
American founder of Dow Chemical Co.91 Rudolph Dirks 2/26/1877 – 4/20/1968
American cartoonist of “Katzenjammer Kids”70 Francesco Borgongini-Duca 2/26/1884 – 10/4/1954
Italian Vatican cardinal66 Sir Benegal Narsing Rau 2/26/1887 – 11/29/1953
Indian jurist63 Grover Cleveland Alexander 2/26/1887 – 11/4/1950
American professional baseball player89 Vercors (b. Jean Marcel Bruller) 2/26/1902 – 6/10/1991
French novelist and artist53 Margaret Leighton 2/26/1922 – 1/13/1976
English stage and film actress
