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February 26:

Film releases

• television series, Get Smart!, airs on ABC

• 1802 – Victor Hugo, French fantasy writer (d. 1885)
• 1887 - Stefan Grabiński, Polish horror writer (d. 1936)
• 1908 - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director (d. 1980)
• 1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde and abstract artist (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (d. 1985)
• 1958 - Karen Berger, American comic book editor

Deaths

• 1998 - James Algar (b. 1912), an American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney films