Anniversaries 26 November
Birth
![William Cowper photo]()
(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
1731–1800
![Sarah Grimké photo]()
American abolitionist
1792–1873
![James Matthews Legaré photo]()
American writer
1823–1859
![Ellen G. White photo]()
American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adven…
1827–1915
![Suniti Kumar Chatterji photo]()
Bengali linguist
1890–1977
![Norbert Wiener photo]()
American mathematician
1894–1964
![Emlyn Williams photo]()
British dramatist and actor
1905–1987
![Eugéne Ionesco photo]()
Romanian playwright
1909–1994
![Eric Sevareid photo]()
American journalist
1912–1992
![Frederik Pohl photo]()
American science fiction writer and editor
1919–2013
![Verghese Kurien photo]()
Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul
1921–2012
![Charles M. Schulz photo]()
American cartoonist
1922–2000
![Don Tregonning photo]()
Australian professional tennis player and coach
1928
![Tina Turner photo]()
singer, dancer, actress, and author
1939
![Abdullah Ahmad Badawi photo]()
Malaysian politician
1939
![Marilynne Robinson photo]()
American novelist and essayist
1943
![Michel-Rolph Trouillot photo]()
Haitian academic and anthropologist
1949–2012
![Mari Alkatiri photo]()
Prime Minister of East Timor
1949
![Jonathan Weiner photo]()
American nonfiction writer
1953
![Leonard Mlodinow photo]()
American physicist, author and screenwriter
1954
![Felix Gonzalez-Torres photo]()
American artist
1957–1996
![Kara Walker photo]()
African American artist
1969
![John Amaechi photo]()
Professional basketball player
1970
![Natasha Bedingfield photo]()
English singer and songwriter
1981
Death
![Sojourner Truth photo]()
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
1797–1883
![Adam Mickiewicz photo]()
Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, trans…
1798–1855
![Frederick William Faber photo]()
British hymn writer and theologian
1814–1863
![Paul Lafargue photo]()
French politician
1842–1911
![Ernest Belfort Bax photo]()
British barrister and journalist
1854–1926
![Florence Foster Jenkins photo]()
American soprano, renowned for her lack of musical skill an…
1868–1944
![Max Euwe photo]()
Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author
1901–1981
![Ashley Montagu photo]()
British-American anthropologist
1905–1999
![Paul Rand photo]()
American graphic designer
1914–1996
![Saul Leiter photo]()
American photographer
1923–2013
![Edwin Ernest Salpeter photo]()
American astronomer
1924–2008
![William Coperthwaite photo]()
American yurt builder
1930–2013
![Geoffrey Moorhouse photo]()
English journalist and author
1931–2009
![Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu photo]()
Nigerian politician and military leader
1933–2011
![Paul J. Swain photo]()
Catholic bishop
1943–2022
![Stephen Hillenburg photo]()
American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator, storyboard…
1961–2018
