List of Famous people who died at 26

Ivan Igorevich Khutorskoy was a RASH skinhead, nicknamed "Bonecrusher," who was a prominent member of the Russian anti-fascist movement. He was murdered in his home in a suburb of Moscow.

Roberto Monteiro, commonly known by the nickname Roberto Batata, was an association football forward who played for several Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Cruzeiro and for the Brazilian national team.

Pascal Jules was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Solomon Solomou was a Greek-Cypriot who was shot and killed by a Turkish officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in Cyprus's United Nations Buffer Zone. The killing occurred in the aftermath of the funeral of Solomou's cousin Tassos Isaac, who had been murdered a few days earlier by Turkish nationalists belonging to the militant Grey Wolves organization.

Todor "Toše" Proeski was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. Considered a top act of the local Macedonian and Balkan music scene, Proeski's music was popular across multitude of countries of Southeast Europe. He was dubbed the "Elvis Presley of the Balkans" by BBC News. He died in a car crash on the Zagreb–Lipovac A3 highway, near Nova Gradiška in Croatia, on the morning of 16 October 2007, aged 26.

Eri Irianto was a player of Persebaya Surabaya.