Famous People Born on August 26, August 26 Famous Birthdays
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August 26 Birthdays, Famous People born on August 26th
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Kotoshoho Yoshinari, Japanese sumo wrestler |
| 1991 | Jessie Diggins, American cross-country skier |
| 1990 | Irina-Camelia Begu, Romanian tennis player |
| 1990 | Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer |
| 1989 | James Harden, American basketball player |
| 1988 | Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 1988 | Evan Ross, American actor |
| 1988 | Danielle Savre, American actress |
| 1988 | Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1988 | Lars Stindl, German football player |
| 1987 | Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (d. 2014) |
| 1986 | Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer |
| 1986 | Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer |
| 1986 | Cassie Ventura, American singer, dancer, actress and model |
| 1985 | Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete |
| 1985 | Brandon McDonald, American football player |
| 1985 | David Price, American baseball player |
| 1983 | Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer |
| 1983 | Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver |
| 1983 | Nicol David, Malaysian squash player |
| 1982 | Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer |
| 1982 | John Mulaney, American comedian, actor, writer, and producer |
| 1982 | Jayson Nix, American baseball player |
| 1982 | Noah Welch, American ice hockey player |
| 1981 | Tino Best, Barbadian cricketer |
| 1981 | Sebastian Bönig, German footballer |
| 1981 | Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player |
| 1981 | Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer |
| 1981 | Petey Williams, Canadian wrestler |
| 1980 | Macaulay Culkin, American actor |
| 1980 | Brendan Harris, American baseball player |
| 1980 | Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player |
| 1980 | Chris Pine, American actor |
| 1979 | Jamal Lewis, American football player |
| 1979 | Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 1979 | Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer |
| 1977 | Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer |
| 1977 | Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer |
| 1977 | Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 1977 | Simone Motta, Italian footballer |
| 1976 | Mike Colter, American actor |
| 1976 | Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter |
| 1975 | Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player and coach |
| 1974 | Kelvin Cato, American basketball player and coach |
| 1974 | Meredith Eaton, American actress |
| 1973 | Richard Evatt, English boxer (d. 2012) |
| 1971 | Thalía, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress |
| 1970 | Jason Little, Australian rugby player |
| 1970 | Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1970 | Brett Schultz, South African cricketer |
| 1969 | Adrian Young, American drummer and songwriter |
| 1968 | Chris Boardman, English cyclist |
| 1967 | Michael Gove, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Education |
| 1966 | Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach |
| 1966 | Shirley Manson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress |
| 1965 | Marcus du Sautoy, English mathematician and academic |
| 1965 | Chris Burke, American actor |
| 1964 | Allegra Huston, English-American author and screenwriter |
| 1964 | Bobby Jurasin, American-Canadian football player and coach |
| 1964 | Chad Kreuter, American baseball player and manager |
| 1964 | Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer and manager |
| 1964 | Torsten Schmitz, German boxer |
| 1964 | Carsten Wolf, German cyclist |
| 1964 | Mehriban Aliyeva, 1st Vice President of Azerbaijan, goodwill ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO. |
| 1963 | David Byas, English cricketer and umpire |
| 1963 | Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist and author |
| 1963 | Patrice Oppliger, American author, critic, and academic |
| 1962 | Roger Kingdom, American hurdler |
| 1961 | Daniel Lévi, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2022) |
| 1961 | Jeff Parrett, American baseball player |
| 1960 | Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader |
| 1960 | Ola Ray, American model and actress |
| 1959 | Oliver Colvile, English lawyer and politician |
| 1959 | Stan Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach |
| 1958 | Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist |
| 1957 | Nikky Finney, American poet and academic |
| 1956 | Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer |
| 1956 | Brett Cullen, American actor |
| 1956 | Mark Mangino, American football player and coach |
| 1955 | Ian Dejardin, English historian and curator |
| 1955 | Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist and educator |
| 1954 | Howard Clark, English golfer and sportscaster |
| 1954 | Tracy Krohn, American race car driver and businessman |
| 1954 | Hugh Pelham, British academic and educator |
| 1953 | David Hurley, Australian general and politician, 27th Governor General of Australia |
| 1953 | Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer |
| 1952 | Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1952 | Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 1952 | Will Shortz, American journalist and puzzle creator |
| 1951 | Gerd Bonk, German weightlifter (d. 2014) |
| 1951 | Bill Whitaker, American journalist |
| 1951 | Edward Witten, American physicist and academic |
| 1949 | Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric |
| 1949 | Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2019) |
| 1947 | Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (d. 2007) |
| 1946 | Zhou Ji, Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education |
| 1946 | Valerie Simpson, American singer-songwriter |
| 1946 | Alison Steadman, English actress |
| 1945 | Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security |
| 1944 | Alan Parker, English guitarist and songwriter |
| 1944 | Judith Rees, English geographer and academic |
| 1944 | Maureen Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer |
| 1943 | Dori Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1942 | Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston, English lawyer and politician (d. 2014) |
| 1942 | Chow Kwai Lam, Malaysian football coach and player (d. 2018) |
| 1941 | Chris Curtis, English drummer and singer (d. 2005) |
| 1941 | Jane Merrow, English actress, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1941 | Barbet Schroeder, French-Swiss director and producer |
| 1940 | Michael Cockerell, English journalist |
| 1940 | Vic Dana, American dancer and singer |
| 1940 | Don LaFontaine, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 1940 | Nik Turner, English musician and songwriter |
| 1939 | Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli businessman and politician (d. 2007) |
| 1939 | Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazilian banker and financier |
| 1938 | Jet Black, English drummer (d. 2022) |
| 1937 | Don Bowman, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1936 | Benedict Anderson, American political scientist and academic (d. 2015) |
| 1935 | Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011) |
| 1935 | Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007) |
| 1934 | Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2020) |
| 1934 | Kevin Ryan, Australian rugby player, coach, lawyer and politician |
| 1932 | Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player (d. 2014) |
| 1931 | Kálmán Markovits, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2009) |
| 1930 | Joe Solomon, Guyanese cricketer and coach |
| 1929 | Reuben Kamanga, Zambian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (d. 1996) |
| 1928 | Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (d. 2015) |
| 1926 | Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999) |
| 1926 | Robert Vickrey, American painter and author (d. 2011) |
| 1925 | Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (d. 2005) |
| 1925 | Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999) |
| 1925 | Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013) |
| 1925 | Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018) |
| 1925 | Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (d. 2010) |
| 1924 | Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 1923 | Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013) |
| 1922 | Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (d. 2009) |
| 1921 | Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994) |
| 1921 | Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014) |
| 1920 | Brant Parker, American illustrator (d. 2007) |
| 1920 | Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2019) |
| 1919 | Gerard Campbell, American priest and academic (d. 2012) |
| 1918 | Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020) |
| 1915 | Humphrey Searle, English composer and conductor (d. 1982) |
| 1914 | Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (d. 1984) |
| 1914 | Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (d. 2008) |
| 1911 | Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (d. 1974) |
| 1910 | Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |
| 1909 | Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator (d. 1976) |
| 1909 | Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 1909 | Gene Moore, American baseball player (d. 1978) |
| 1908 | Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967) |
| 1908 | Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999) |
| 1906 | Bunny Austin, English tennis player (d. 2000) |
| 1906 | Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993) |
| 1904 | Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991) |
| 1903 | Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992) |
| 1901 | Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet (d. 1985) |
| 1901 | Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945) |
| 1901 | Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader (d. 1972) |
| 1901 | Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987) |
| 1900 | Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom (d. 1970) |
| 1900 | Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) |
| 1898 | Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1979) |
| 1897 | Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (d. 1990) |
| 1896 | Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990) |
| 1894 | Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (d. 1989) |
| 1891 | Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright (d. 1960) |
| 1888 | Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (d. 1974) |
| 1885 | Jules Romains, French author and poet (d. 1972) |
| 1882 | James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) |
| 1882 | Sam Hardy, English footballer (d. 1966) |
| 1880 | Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1918) |
| 1875 | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (d. 1940) |
| 1874 | Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1938) |
| 1873 | Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961) |
| 1865 | Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946) |
| 1862 | Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader (d. 1926) |
| 1856 | Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress (d. 1939) |
| 1854 | Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932) |
| 1824 | Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter (d. 1885) |
| 1819 | Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861) |
| 1797 | Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (d. 1879) |
| 1792 | Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (d. 1857) |
| 1783 | Federigo Zuccari, astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. 1817) |
| 1775 | William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (d. 1851) |
| 1751 | Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop (d. 1825) |
| 1743 | Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (d. 1794) |
| 1740 | Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810) |
| 1728 | Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777) |
| 1695 | Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter (d. 1791) |
| 1694 | Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician (d. 1755) |
| 1676 | Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745) |
| 1596 | Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632) |
| 1582 | Humilis of Bisignano, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (d. 1637) |
| 1548 | Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (d. 1612) |
| 1469 | Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496) |
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