Anniversaries 26 January
Birth
![Claude Adrien Helvétius photo]()
French philosopher
1715–1771
![David Seth Doggett photo]()
American bishop
1810–1880
![David Jewett Waller, Sr. photo]()
Pennsylvanian minister and civic leader
1815–1893
![Mary Mapes Dodge photo]()
Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor
1831–1905
![Alfred Cochrane photo]()
English cricketer
1865–1948
![Douglas MacArthur photo]()
U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of…
1880–1964
![Roy Chapman Andrews photo]()
American explorer, adventurer and naturalist
1884–1960
![Edward Sapir photo]()
American linguist and anthropologist
1884–1939
![Eric Mervyn Lindsay photo]()
Irish astronomer
1907–1974
![Louis Zamperini photo]()
Italian-American middle distance runner
1917–2014
![Nicolae Ceaușescu photo]()
General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
1918–1989
![Philip José Farmer photo]()
American science fiction writer
1918–2009
![Akio Morita photo]()
Japanese businessman
1921–1999
![Paul Newman photo]()
American actor and film director
1925–2008
![Jules Feiffer photo]()
American cartoonist, screenwriter and playwright
1929
![Ivan Van Sertima photo]()
British Africanist in New Jersey
1935–2009
![Angela Davis photo]()
American political activist, scholar, and author
1944
![Michael Marmot photo]()
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
1945
![Christopher Hampton photo]()
British playwright, screenwriter and film director
1946
![Jonathan Carroll photo]()
novelist, short story writer
1949
![Jack Youngblood photo]()
American football player, defensive end, Pro Football Hall …
1950
![Jörg Haider photo]()
Austrian politician
1950–2008
![Lucinda Williams photo]()
American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer, songw…
1953
![Anders Fogh Rasmussen photo]()
former Prime Minister of Denmark and NATO secretary general
1953
![Eddie Van Halen photo]()
Dutch-American rock musician
1955
![Ellen DeGeneres photo]()
American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
1958
![Kenan Malik photo]()
English writer, lecturer and broadcaster
1960
![Wayne Gretzky photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1961
![José Mourinho photo]()
Portuguese association football player and manager
1963
![Shannon Hale photo]()
American fantasy novelist
1974
Death
![Muhammad al-Baqir photo]()
fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
677–733
![Edward Jenner photo]()
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
1749–1823
![Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey photo]()
British politician
1773–1850
![Thomas Lovell Beddoes photo]()
English poet, dramatist and physician
1803–1849
![Gérard de Nerval photo]()
French Romantic poet
1808–1855
![Edward G. Robinson photo]()
Romanian American actor
1893–1973
![Lewis Mumford photo]()
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology,…
1895–1990
![Lucky Luciano photo]()
Italian-American mobster
1897–1962
![Witold Doroszewski photo]()
Lexicographer and linguist
1899–1976
![Peter Marshall photo]()
American preacher
1902–1949
![James Cameron (journalist) photo]()
British journalist
1911–1985
![A. E. van Vogt photo]()
Canadian writer
1912–2000
![Bear Bryant photo]()
American college football coach
1913–1983
![Hal Draper photo]()
American activist
1914–1990
![Louis Auchincloss photo]()
Lawyer, novelist, historian, essayist
1917–2010
![Walter F. Buckley photo]()
American sociologist
1922–2006
![Geoffrey Burbidge photo]()
British astronomer
1925–2010
![Clare Fischer photo]()
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
1928–2012
![Al McGuire photo]()
American basketball player and coach
1928–2001
![Tam Dalyell photo]()
Scottish politician
1932–2017
![Kobe Bryant photo]()
American basketball player
1978–2020
