ON THIS DAY
Born in 1926
1,418 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Vicente Aranda
screenwriter, director
- Avraham Adan
writer, soldier
- Dixie Evans
model, dancer
- Lois Hall
actor, film actor
- Joe Jones
singer-songwriter, pianist
- Genrich Altshuller
journalist, writer
- Harry Hughes
lawyer, politician
- Friedrich Cerha
instrumentalist, conductor
- Klaus Tennstedt
concertmaster, musician
- Carrie P. Meek
politician, academic administrator
- Rudi Gutendorf
association football coach, association football player
- Max Mathews
computer scientist, composer
- Joshua Fishman
sociolinguist, non-fiction writer
- Tadeusz Konwicki
screenwriter, film director
- Ben Johnston
composer
- Chae Myung-shin
diplomat, military officer
- Boško Buha
partisan
- Al Ries
economist
- Miguel León Portilla
docent, historian
- George Low
university teacher, military flight engineer
- Bert Olmstead
ice hockey coach, ice hockey player
- Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda
professor, mathematician
- Inna Makarova
actor, film actor
- Walter Lassally
cinematographer
- Arnošt Lustig
journalist, historian
- Desmond Davis
cinematographer, television director
- Desmond Connell
archbishop, Catholic priest
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
literary scholar, non-fiction writer
- Étienne-Émile Baulieu
university teacher, professor
- Bobby Jaspar
jazz musician, saxophonist
- James M. Beggs
military officer, diplomat
- Urbie Green
conductor, jazz musician
- Ivica Horvat
association football coach, association football player
- Nancy Spero
painter, women's rights activist
- Patrick Jenkin
company director, politician
- H. R. F. Keating
writer, literary critic
- Hugh Leonard
film screenwriter, writer
- Archie Randolph Ammons
poet, writer
- Elie Kedourie
university teacher, historian
- Ergilio Hato
association football player
- Julius Katchen
musician, pianist
- James Krüss
screenwriter, musician
- Robert W. Cox
political scientist, sociologist
- Earle Brown
composer
- Rawya Ateya
politician
- Duccio Tessari
screenwriter, film director
- Keiji Sada
actor
- Mogens Glistrup
university teacher, lawyer
- Roger Taillibert
architect
- Yitzhak Arad
pedagogue, writer
- Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli
mathematician, astronomer
- David Levine
draftsperson, painter
- Abraham Serfaty
activist, engineer
- Ed Derwinski
politician
- Christian Norberg-Schulz
architect, art historian
- J. B. Hutto
guitarist, musician
- Dirch Passer
film actor, stage actor
- Joseph Horovitz
music educator, writer
- Vann Molyvann
politician, architect
- Amo Houghton
businessperson, politician
- Ali Sadikin
military personnel, politician
- Sue Casey
actor, film actor
- Bruno Nicolai
composer, film score composer
- Abid Hussain
politician, economist
- Abel Goumba
politician, university teacher
- Lennox Sebe
politician
- Sayyid Sadeq Rohani
teacher, ulema
- Mitsumasa Anno
children's writer, graphic designer
- Sidney Drell
teacher, physicist
- W. D. Snodgrass
writer, university teacher
- Blanca Estela Pavón
actor, film actor
- Bob Sweikert
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Marlow Cook
lawyer, politician
- Richard H. Kline
cinematographer
- Milton Santos
geographer, university teacher
- Andrew Mango
historian, historian of Modern Age
- T. V. Rajeswar
politician, civil servant
- Emile Francis
ice hockey player, ice hockey coach
- Martin Hengel
Judaic scholar, biblical scholar
- George Christopher Williams
zoologist
- Rafiq Nishonov
diplomat, politician
- Rabi Ray
politician
- Beatriz Segall
actor, stage actor
- Mel Mermelstein
writer
- Rodrigo Carazo Odio
politician, economist
- Albert Frère
business magnate
- Lee S. Dreyfus
university teacher, politician
- Hiroshi Koizumi
announcer, actor
- Dahmane El Harrachi
singer, composer
- Sim
film actor, actor
- Ralf Wolter
actor, singer
- Uriel Weinreich
lexicographer, philologist
- Murray Schisgal
screenwriter, playwright
- Kees Rijvers
association football player, national team coach
- Marian Turski
journalist, historian
- Frank M. Robinson
science fiction writer, novelist
- Allan Stanley
ice hockey player
- Yu Min
nuclear physicist
- James Cooley
computer scientist, mathematician
- Shigeru Kayano
politician
- Herbert Freudenberger
academic, psychoanalyst
- Moshe Marzouk
military personnel, physician
- Parbati Giri
activist
- Fred Ramdat Misier
politician, judge
- Nabakanta Barua
poet, writer
- Johnny Coles
jazz musician, trumpeter
- Jackie Forster
actor, television presenter
- Nini Rosso
jazz musician, singer
- Ludvík Vaculík
opinion journalist, radio editor
- Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
literary scholar, poet
- Günter Mittag
politician
- Barbara Anderson
writer, novelist
- Rifat Chadirji
militant, architect
- Thomas L. Saaty
university teacher, journalist
- Dietmar Schönherr
dub actor, musician
- Ramona Fradon
penciller
- Charles Duncan, Jr.
businessperson, engineer
- Ellie Lambeti
actor, stage actor
- Camillo Cibin
police officer, security guard
- Stan Tracey
musician, pianist
- Aaron Schroeder
composer, songwriter
- Henry N. Cobb
architect
- Florestano Vancini
screenwriter, film director
- Leonie Rysanek
opera singer
- Julio Pérez
association football coach, association football player
- Norma Merrick Sklarek
architect
- Dennis Wilshaw
association football player
- Radmila Savićević
television actor, stage actor
- Javad Nurbakhsh
university teacher, Sufi
- Veikko Sinisalo
film actor, actor
- Kamal Narain Singh
judge
- Alfred Pfaff
association football player
- Pat Flaherty
engineer, racing automobile driver
- Jack Kyle
physician, rugby union player
- Bibi Titi Mohamed
freedom fighter, civil servant
- Alfredo Poveda
politician
- Karel Kosik
sociologist, philosopher
- Rafael Lesmes
association football player
- George Modelski
professor, political scientist
- Fritz Streletz
colonel general, Generaloberst
- Bryan Johnson
singer, stage actor
- Allan Brown
association football coach, association football player
- Heriberto Herrera
association football coach, association football player
- Mark Andrews
politician
- Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez
politician
- Hideyo Amamoto
actor