ON THIS DAY
Born in 1926
1,418 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Charles Champlin
journalist, film critic
- Guitar Slim
musician, guitarist
- Elizabeth Jennings
librarian, poet
- Alex Sanders
Wicca
- Juan José Linz
sociologist, historian of Modern Age
- Salvador Jorge Blanco
writer, jurist
- David Tudor
pedagogue, organist
- John Morris
pianist, composer
- Robert Symonds
television actor, actor
- Minerva Mirabal
lawyer, political activist
- Erdal İnönü
university teacher, physicist
- Ralph Puckett
military officer
- Sami Michael
writer, human rights defender
- Michel Butor
philosopher, writer
- Arnaldo Pomodoro
visual artist, jewelry designer
- Larry Burrows
war photographer, journalist
- G. S. Shivarudrappa
writer, poet
- Fernando J. Corbató
computer scientist, university teacher
- Bud Shank
music arranger, composer
- Évariste Kimba
minister, politician
- Rex Hunt
diplomat, politician
- María Elena Marqués
politician, actor
- Angus Maddison
university teacher, economist
- Wolfgang Iser
literary scholar, writer
- Emmanuel Wamala
theologian, Catholic bishop
- Philip B. Crosby
consultant, economist
- Andrew Schally
university teacher, biochemist
- Lew Welch
university teacher, poet
- Melba Liston
music educator, composer
- Arthur Rowley
association football player, cricketer
- Hocine Aït Ahmed
politician
- James Samuel Coleman
writer, sociologist
- Kriyananda
writer
- David Malet Armstrong
philosopher, university teacher
- Jon Vickers
opera singer
- Konstantin Feoktistov
astronaut, science astronaut
- Roman Kroitor
screenwriter, inventor
- Erna Schneider Hoover
inventor, computer scientist
- Hamilton Naki
gardener, surgeon
- Carl Erskine
baseball player, writer
- Amadeo Carrizo
association football coach, goalkeeper
- Stef Wertheimer
entrepreneur, politician
- Keiko Tsushima
film actor
- Queen Halaevalu Mataʻaho, Queen Mother of Tonga
royal consort, crown princess
- Sunita Deshpande
novelist, writer
- Oscar Brown, Jr.
composer, singer-songwriter
- Kid Gavilán
boxer
- Christopher Logue
actor, screenwriter
- Ladislav Adamec
political scientist, politician
- John Spellman
politician, lawyer
- Allan Sandage
astrophysicist, university teacher
- Danièle Delorme
film actor, film producer
- Per Wahlöö
writer, painter
- Nan Leslie
film actor, actor
- Hans-Jochen Vogel
jurist, mayor
- Rossella Falk
actor, stage actor
- Mary Stuart
actor, television actor
- Marian Diamond
university teacher, psychiatrist
- Ronnie Gilbert
street artist, film actor
- Tom Hatten
actor, television actor
- Clyde Walcott
cricketer
- Dorothy Collins
singer, actor
- Marian Carr
actor
- Lars Jansson
penciller, comics artist
- Yoram Gross
film director, screenwriter
- Yash Pal
science communicator, physicist
- Jean Poiret
film director, stage actor
- Valerio Zurlini
film director, director
- Channing Pollock
actor, magician
- Charles Cooper
stage actor, film actor
- Donald Arthur Glaser
neuroscientist, molecular biologist
- Luciano Vincenzoni
screenwriter
- Mathilde Krim
geneticist, physician
- Lou Ottens
manager, engineer
- Walter Sedlmayr
screenwriter, film director
- Frank Rosolino
musician, jazz musician
- Meredith Belbin
university teacher, classical philologist
- Mordechai Chod
Aliyah Bet activist, air force officer
- Teddy Reno
singer, television presenter
- Vitaly Vorotnikov
diplomat, politician
- Ben Roy Mottelson
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Marc Bohan
grand couturier, fashion designer
- Viola Harris
actor, film actor
- Oliver Selfridge
artificial intelligence researcher, mathematician
- Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
writer, poet
- Ross Thomas
novelist, journalist
- Danilo Donati
writer, costume designer
- Vladimir Zamanskiy
actor
- Leon Kossoff
draftsperson, artist
- Tulsi Giri
politician
- Horst Kasner
Protestant theologian, pastor
- Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
judge, politician
- Muhammadu Maccido
sovereign
- Sergio Pininfarina
Italian senator for life, designer
- Jorge Medina Estévez
philosopher, Catholic bishop
- Said Ramadan
jurist, activist
- Ernst Ocwirk
association football coach, association football player
- Darleane C. Hoffman
chemist, university teacher
- Shinichi Hoshi
novelist, science fiction writer
- Laurence Rosenthal
bandleader, film score composer
- Arno J. Mayer
university teacher, historian
- Georges Lautner
film director, theatre designer
- William Wakefield Baum
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Ray Solomonoff
artificial intelligence researcher, mathematician
- Charles Denner
French resistance fighter, film actor
- Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Jimmy Bryan
motorcycle racer, Formula One driver
- Sonja Ziemann
writer, film actor
- Judith Magre
stage actor, singer
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff
lawyer, jurist
- Dorothy E. Smith
anthropologist, university teacher
- Stevo Žigon
actor, writer
- Alina Szapocznikow
graphic artist, artist
- John Meyendorff
Byzantinist, church historian
- Gustav Metzger
filmmaker, painter
- Antonio Molino Rojo
film actor, television actor
- Paul Leder
screenwriter, film director
- Gamil Ratib
actor, stage actor
- Vijaydan Detha
poet, writer
- Jacques Rozier
screenwriter, writer
- Teddy Scholten
television presenter, schlager singer
- Marie-Claire Alain
music arranger, organist
- Estanislau Basora
association football player
- Tarkeshwari Sinha
politician
- Bob Falkenburg
entrepreneur, tennis player
- Irwin Rose
biochemist, chemist
- Bernard B. Fall
university teacher, translator
- John Clellon Holmes
writer, university teacher
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
pedagogue, film actor
- Betty Edwards
pedagogue, painter
- Abdul Rahim Hatif
politician
- Armando Silvestre
television actor, actor
- Fritz Stern
university teacher, non-fiction writer
- Rashidi Kawawa
politician, minister
- Driss Chraïbi
Journal of Biological Chemistry, prose writer
- Ali Javan
professor, physicist
- Zvonimir Červenko
military personnel, politician
- Georgi Lozanov
pedagogue, psychologist
- Baltazar
association football player, association football coach
- Carlos Roberto Reina
lawyer, politician
- Andrew Laszlo
cinematographer
- Russ Freeman
jazz pianist, composer
- Betsy Jolas
music educator, composer
- André Delvaux
film screenwriter, screenwriter