Anniversaries 26 October
Birth
![John Peter Zenger photo]()
American printer
1697–1746
![Georges Danton photo]()
French revolutionary
1759–1794
![Charles Sprague photo]()
Boston businessman and poet
1791–1875
![Helmuth von Moltke the Elder photo]()
German Field Marshal
1800–1891
![Elizabeth Prentiss photo]()
American musician, hymnwriter
1818–1878
![John Cunningham Geikie photo]()
Scottish Presbyterian minister and author
1824–1906
![C. P. Scott photo]()
British journalist, publisher and politician
1846–1932
![Leon Trotsky photo]()
Marxist revolutionary from Russia
1879–1940
![Napoleon Hill photo]()
American author
1883–1970
![Vincent Starrett photo]()
American writer
1886–1974
![Oliver P. Smith photo]()
United States Marine Corps general
1893–1977
![Beryl Markham photo]()
British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer
1902–1986
![Shiing-Shen Chern photo]()
mathematician (1911–2004), born in China and later acquirin…
1911–2004
![François Mitterrand photo]()
21st President of the French Republic
1916–1996
![Ithiel de Sola Pool photo]()
American social scientist
1917–1984
![Milton Nascimento photo]()
Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942
![Pat Conroy photo]()
American novelist
1945–2016
![Pat Sajak photo]()
American television host
1946
![Hillary Clinton photo]()
American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
1947
![Andrew Motion photo]()
poet, novelist and biographer from England
1952
![Carlos Agostinho do Rosário photo]()
Prime Minister of Mozambique (2015-present)
1954
![Stephen L. Carter photo]()
American legal academic and writer
1954
![Mike Godwin photo]()
American attorney and author
1956
![Paul Farmer photo]()
American anthropologist
1959
![Stacy Schiff photo]()
American female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
1961
![Amy Chua photo]()
American lawyer, writer, and legal scholar
1962
![Natalie Merchant photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1963
![Scott Jurek photo]()
American ultramarthon runner
1973
![Seth MacFarlane photo]()
American animator, actor, singer and television producer
1973
![Phil Brooks photo]()
American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
1978
Death
![William Hogarth photo]()
English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social cri…
1697–1764
![Philip Doddridge photo]()
English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter
1702–1751
![Albrecht Thaer photo]()
German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory…
1752–1828
![Carolina, Baroness Nairne photo]()
British musician
1766–1845
![Charles Miner photo]()
American politician
1780–1865
![Angelina Grimké photo]()
American abolitionist and feminist
1805–1879
![Elizabeth Cady Stanton photo]()
Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
1815–1902
![Cargill Gilston Knott photo]()
British mathematician and physicist
1856–1922
![R. A. Torrey photo]()
American writer
1856–1928
![Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom photo]()
Member of the British Royal Family and daughter of Queen Vi…
1857–1944
![Charles Proteus Steinmetz photo]()
Mathematician and electrical engineer
1865–1923
![William Temple photo]()
Archbishop of Canterbury
1881–1944
![Ralph Borsodi photo]()
American economist
1886–1977
![Alfred Tarski photo]()
Polish-American logician
1901–1983
![Charles J. Pedersen photo]()
American organic chemist
1904–1989
![Abraham Polonsky photo]()
American politician
1910–1999
![Eknath Easwaran photo]()
spiritual teacher, author of books on meditation and spirit…
1910–1999
![Mark Kac photo]()
Polish-American mathematician
1914–1984
![Park Chung-hee photo]()
Korean Army general and the leader of South Korea from 1961…
1917–1979
![Bill Trader photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1922–2003
![Mort Sahl photo]()
American comedian and actor
1927–2021
![Jona Senilagakali photo]()
Prime Minister of Fiji
1929–2011
![Roh Tae-woo photo]()
Army general and President of South Korea
1932–2021
![Hoyt Axton photo]()
American country singer
1938–1999
