Anniversaries 26 October

Birth

John Peter Zenger1

American printer 1697–1746

Georges Danton3

French revolutionary 1759–1794

Charles Sprague5

Boston businessman and poet 1791–1875

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder4

German Field Marshal 1800–1891

Elizabeth Prentiss11

American musician, hymnwriter 1818–1878

John Cunningham Geikie6

Scottish Presbyterian minister and author 1824–1906

C. P. Scott4

British journalist, publisher and politician 1846–1932

Leon Trotsky106

Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879–1940

Napoleon Hill104

American author 1883–1970

Vincent Starrett1

American writer 1886–1974

Oliver P. Smith1

United States Marine Corps general 1893–1977

Beryl Markham7

British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer 1902–1986

Shiing-Shen Chern6

mathematician (1911–2004), born in China and later acquirin… 1911–2004

François Mitterrand9

21st President of the French Republic 1916–1996

Ithiel de Sola Pool1

American social scientist 1917–1984

Ashraf Pahlavi7

Iranian royal 1919–2016

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi92

Shah of Iran 1919–1980

Roy Ascott2

British academic 1934

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen1

Dutch physicist 1938

Milton Nascimento1

Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942

Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont1

Catholic bishop 1945

Pat Conroy85

American novelist 1945–2016

Pat Sajak11

American television host 1946

Hillary Clinton312

American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947

John Robbins4

American author 1947

Andrew Motion4

poet, novelist and biographer from England 1952

Lars Peter Hansen1

American economist 1952

Gavin de Becker11

American engineer 1954

Carlos Agostinho do Rosário2

Prime Minister of Mozambique (2015-present) 1954

Stephen L. Carter16

American legal academic and writer 1954

Mike Godwin7

American attorney and author 1956

Jude Watson15

novelist 1956

Evo Morales16

Bolivian politician 1959

Paul Farmer4

American anthropologist 1959

Uhuru Kenyatta3

Kenyan politician 1961

Stacy Schiff4

American female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner 1961

Teresa Medeiros6

American writer 1962

Amy Chua8

American lawyer, writer, and legal scholar 1962

Natalie Merchant62

American singer-songwriter 1963

Shamini Flint20

Malaysian writer 1969

Anthony Rapp3

American actor 1971

Jim Butcher383

American author 1971

Shan Sa3

Author 1972

Scott Jurek14

American ultramarthon runner 1973

Seth MacFarlane5

American animator, actor, singer and television producer 1973

Marisha Pessl29

American writer 1977

Phil Brooks75

American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist 1978

Death

Alfred the Great11

King of Wessex 849–899

William Hogarth4

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social cri… 1697–1764

Philip Doddridge8

English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter 1702–1751

Albrecht Thaer34

German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory… 1752–1828

Carolina, Baroness Nairne4

British musician 1766–1845

Charles Miner1

American politician 1780–1865

Angelina Grimké1

American abolitionist and feminist 1805–1879

Elizabeth Cady Stanton42

Suffragist and Women's Rights activist 1815–1902

Carlo Collodi2

Italian writer 1826–1890

Cargill Gilston Knott3

British mathematician and physicist 1856–1922

R. A. Torrey2

American writer 1856–1928

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom1

Member of the British Royal Family and daughter of Queen Vi… 1857–1944

Charles Proteus Steinmetz7

Mathematician and electrical engineer 1865–1923

William Temple5

Archbishop of Canterbury 1881–1944

Nikos Kazantzakis222

Greek writer 1883–1957

Ralph Borsodi1

American economist 1886–1977

Garrett Fort21

screenwriter 1900–1945

Alfred Tarski6

Polish-American logician 1901–1983

Charles J. Pedersen1

American organic chemist 1904–1989

Abraham Polonsky9

American politician 1910–1999

Eknath Easwaran6

spiritual teacher, author of books on meditation and spirit… 1910–1999

Mark Kac17

Polish-American mathematician 1914–1984

Park Chung-hee7

Korean Army general and the leader of South Korea from 1961… 1917–1979

Tong Tekong1

historian 1920–2009

Bill Trader4

American singer-songwriter 1922–2003

Tony Hillerman2

Novelist 1925–2008

Mort Sahl11

American comedian and actor 1927–2021

Jona Senilagakali2

Prime Minister of Fiji 1929–2011

Roh Tae-woo1

Army general and President of South Korea 1932–2021

Hoyt Axton21

American country singer 1938–1999