Anniversaries 26 December
Birth
![Thomas Gray photo]()
English poet, historian
1716–1771
![Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis photo]()
Swiss poet, author, politician and officer
1762–1834
![Laurent Clerc photo]()
French-American deaf educator
1785–1869
![Charles Babbage photo]()
mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical enginee…
1791–1871
![Dion Boucicault photo]()
Irish actor and dramatist
1820–1890
![William Winwood Reade photo]()
British historian
1838–1875
![Kakuzo Okakura photo]()
Japanese scholar, author of The Book of Tea
1862–1913
![Julien Benda photo]()
French essayist
1867–1956
![Norman Angell photo]()
British politician
1872–1967
![Elton Mayo photo]()
Australian academic
1880–1949
![Alfonso Uribe Misas photo]()
Colombian lawyer, politician and writer
1886–1984
![Henry Miller photo]()
American novelist
1891–1980
![Mao Zedong photo]()
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of…
1893–1976
![Jean Toomer photo]()
American poet and novelist
1894–1967
![Elizabeth David photo]()
British cookery writer
1913–1992
![Baba Amte photo]()
Indian freedom fighter, social worker
1914–2008
![Steve Allen photo]()
American comedian, actor, musician and writer
1921–2000
![John Horton Conway photo]()
British mathematician
1937
![Phil Spector photo]()
American record producer, songwriter
1939–2021
![Catherine Coulter photo]()
American romance novelist
1942
![José Ramos-Horta photo]()
former president and prime minister of East Timor
1949
![Guido Pozzo photo]()
Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
1951
![José Horacio Gómez photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1951
![Adrian Newey photo]()
British Formula One engineer
1958
![Jared Leto photo]()
American actor and musician
1971
![Emma Forrest photo]()
British journalist, novelist and screenwriter
1976
![Aaron Ramsey photo]()
Welsh association football player
1990
![Andrew Biersack photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1990
Death
![Babur photo]()
1st Mughal Emperor
1483–1530
![Claude Adrien Helvétius photo]()
French philosopher
1715–1771
![John Wilkes photo]()
English journalist and politician
1725–1797
![Joel Barlow photo]()
American diplomat
1754–1812
![Joseph Fouché photo]()
French statesman
1759–1820
![John M. Mason photo]()
American Doctor of Divinity
1770–1829
![Melvil Dewey photo]()
American librarian and educator
1851–1931
![Hereward Carrington photo]()
Jersey parapsychologist
1880–1958
![Harry Truman photo]()
American politician, 33rd president of the United States (i…
1884–1972
![Ivor Gurney photo]()
English composer and poet
1890–1937
![Jack Benny photo]()
comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and …
1894–1974
![Harold Hotelling photo]()
American economist and statistician
1895–1973
![Maryon Pearson photo]()
Wife of Prime Minister of Canada
1901–1989
![Wallace Thurman photo]()
American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance
1902–1934
![Jeff Morrow photo]()
American actor and World War II veteran
1907–1993
![Karl Schiller photo]()
German scientist and politician
1911–1994
![Gerald Ford photo]()
American politician, 38th President of the United States (i…
1913–2006
![Shankar Dayal Sharma photo]()
Indian politician
1918–1999
![Ram Swarup photo]()
Indian historian
1920–1998
![Cornelius Castoriadis photo]()
Greek-French philosopher
1922–1997
![Martin David Kruskal photo]()
American mathematician
1925–2006
![Roy J. Glauber photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1925–2018
![Wendy Beckett photo]()
British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the…
1930–2018
![Jerry Herman photo]()
American composer and lyricist
1931–2019
![Dian Fossey photo]()
American zoologist, gorilla researcher
1932–1985
![Curtis Mayfield photo]()
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1942–1999
![Parveen Shakir photo]()
Pakistani writer and poet
1952–1994
