ON THIS DAY
Born in 1926
1418 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Elizabeth II
monarch, art collector
- Marilyn Monroe
actor, film actor
- David Attenborough
screenwriter, television actor
- Fidel Castro
partisan, jurist
- Mel Brooks
theatrical producer, producer
- Jimmy Savile
autobiographer, professional wrestler
- Miles Davis
jazz musician, actor
- Leslie Nielsen
television actor, military officer
- Chuck Berry
singer, musician
- Hugh Hefner
nightclub owner, editor
- Don Rickles
dancer, television presenter
- Michel Foucault
anthropologist, ethnologist
- Jerry Lewis
filmmaker, vaudeville performer
- Jiang Zemin
electrical engineer, politician
- Alan Greenspan
entrepreneur, economist
- Cloris Leachman
actor, comedian
- Harper Lee
novelist, actor
- Andy Griffith
film actor, musician
- Allen Ginsberg
photographer, screenwriter
- John Coltrane
jazz musician, jazz composer
- Klaus Kinski
film director, director
- Harry Dean Stanton
film actor, musician
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
association football player, association football coach
- Patricia Neal
television actor, film actor
- Tony Bennett
recording artist, autobiographer
- Christine Jorgensen
spokesperson, singer
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
opinion journalist, autobiographer
- Sathya Sai Baba
religious leader
- George Martin
bandleader, record producer
- Gus Grissom
air force officer, test pilot
- John Derek
film director, actor
- Julie London
jazz musician, television actor
- Mickey Hargitay
film actor, actor
- Paul Lynde
character actor, comedian
- Peter Graves
military personnel, director
- Fred Gwynne
film actor, stage actor
- Ruth Ellis
model
- Richard Crenna
television director, television producer
- Roger Corman
writer, film producer
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
poet, author
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
politician, official
- Jeffrey Hunter
television producer, film producer
- Bal Thackeray
cartoonist, journalist
- Vasili Arkhipov
military personnel, submariner
- Joe Paterno
writer, American football coach
- Gene Shalit
journalist, film critic
- Haji Mastan
politician, film producer
- Bing Russell
screenwriter, television actor
- Ian Paisley
politician
- James Best
autobiographer, video game actor
- Ann B. Davis
film actor, actor
- Jean Peters
actor, film actor
- Abdus Salam
physicist, university teacher
- Kenneth Williams
stage actor, writer
- Leopoldo Galtieri
politician, military officer
- Ingvar Kamprad
designer, entrepreneur
- Julie Adams
celebrity, actor
- Richard Matheson
writer, screenwriter
- Murray Rothbard
professor, activist
- Margot Frank
student
- Norman Jewison
film director, director
- Claude Akins
film actor, stage actor
- Steve Reeves
film actor, bodybuilder
- Georgia Holt
film actor, actor
- Neal Cassady
poet, writer
- Stanley Baxter
actor, comedian
- Sydney Chaplin
film actor, actor
- Noor Jehan
musician, singer
- Beverly Garland
actor, television actor
- Jack Brabham
sporting director, Formula One driver
- Richard Jaeckel
television actor, actor
- Charlotte Rae
television actor, singer
- Richard Anderson
actor, film actor
- John Schlesinger
director, film director
- Big Mama Thornton
singer, musician
- Arun Kumar Chatterjee
writer, film producer
- Betsy Palmer
actor, film actor
- Lenny Montana
television actor, professional wrestler
- Eric Morecambe
autobiographer, novelist
- Paul Bocuse
author, businessperson
- Frank Finlay
television actor, film actor
- Paul Burke
television actor, film actor
- Henry Silva
actor, voice actor
- René Goscinny
cartoonist, comics artist
- Claus von Bülow
jurist, lawyer
- Nasir Hussain
film producer, film actor
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
writer, essayist
- John Berger
painter, writer
- George Habash
physician, politician
- Don Messick
voice actor, dub actor
- Leonard Rossiter
stage actor, television actor
- John David Dingell Jr.
lawyer, research assistant
- Aldo Ray
film actor, actor
- Lionel Jeffries
stage actor, screenwriter
- Louise Hay
writer, patron of the arts
- Soupy Sales
radio personality, television actor
- John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
justice of the peace, aristocrat
- Maria Schell
stage actor, director
- Charles Dolan
businessperson
- Michael Bond
founder, autobiographer
- Ralph Abernathy
human rights defender, religious leader
- John Fowles
novelist, screenwriter
- Andrzej Wajda
film director, television director
- Ivan Illich
literary critic, anthropologist
- Bhupen Hazarika
singer, film director
- Zig Ziglar
motivational speaker, writer
- Tsung-Dao Lee
theoretical physicist, physicist
- Vivian Maier
nanny, wet nurse
- Whitney Blake
film actor, actor
- Prem Nazir
actor
- James Lipton
voice actor, film screenwriter
- Geoffrey Howe
minister, diplomat
- Killer Kowalski
professional wrestler
- Sultan bin Abdulaziz
politician
- Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
businessperson, film producer
- Conrad Hall
cinematographer, screenwriter
- Lurleen Wallace
politician
- Verne Gagne
coach, amateur wrestler
- Happy Rockefeller
socialite
- Zinaida Portnova
resistance fighter, partisan
- Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah
politician
- Anne McCaffrey
children's writer, writer
- Tom Tryon
television actor, film actor
- Harry Robbins Haldeman
entrepreneur, politician
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Islamic jurist, poet
- Robert Clary
singer, television actor
- Poul Anderson
novelist, writer
- Betty Lynn
television actor, actor
- Peter George Peterson
banker, entrepreneur
- Michio Kushi
writer
- Ingeborg Bachmann
philosopher, poet
- R. L. Burnside
guitarist, singer
- Peter Shaffer
playwright, writer
- Don Gordon
actor, television actor
- Jean-Pierre Serre
university teacher, mathematician
- Henry Molaison
laborer
- Ruth Asawa
sculptor, object artist
- Moira Shearer
ballet dancer, film actor
- Bryan Forbes
writer, film producer
- Dario Fo
painter, poet
- Jane Withers
television actor, child actor
- Abdoulaye Wade
politician, jurist
- Frank O'Hara
writer, playwright
- June Haver
stage actor, film actor
- Hilary Putnam
philosopher, mathematician
- Necmettin Erbakan
politician, engineer