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Events in February 1926 2
1926 – 2020Valery Giscard d'Estaing (1926-2020)Died 2 December 2020, aged 94Valery Giscard d'Estaing served as President of France from 1974 to 1981, liberalizing social laws and later chairing the convention that drafted a proposed European Union constitution. He died on 2 December 2020 from COVID-19 complications.
1926 – 2010Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)Died 28 November 2010, aged 84Nielsen was a Canadian-American actor who became a comedy icon in his later career with roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun films, after decades as a dramatic actor. His deadpan delivery made him one of the most recognizable comic performers of his generation. He died of complications from pneumonia.