Anniversaries 26 April

Birth

Marcus Aurelius400

Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

Thomas Reid1

Scottish philosopher 1710–1796

David Hume138

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian 1711–1776

John James Audubon6

American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter 1785–1851

Louis de Potter1

pamphleteer, politician (1786-1859) 1786–1859

Ludwig Uhland1

German poet 1787–1862

Eugène Delacroix50

French painter 1798–1863

Alice Cary5

American writer 1820–1871

Artemus Ward24

American writer 1834–1867

Henry Morgenthau, Sr.4

American diplomat 1856–1946

Anita Loos3

Actress, novelist, screenwriter, TV producer 1889–1981

Ludwig Wittgenstein228

Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

Rudolf Hess12

German Nazi leader 1894–1987

Henry De Montherlant1

French writer 1895–1972

Meša Selimović5

Yugoslav-Bosnian writer 1910–1982

A. E. van Vogt7

Canadian writer 1912–2000

Bernard Malamud19

American author 1914–1986

Morris West36

Australian writer 1916–1999

I.M. Pei1

Chinese American architect 1917–2019

Muhammad Qutb3

Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar 1919–2014

Paul R. Lawrence17

American business theorist 1922–2011

William Stringfellow11

American theologian 1928–1985

Arno Allan Penzias6

American physicist 1933

Patricia Reilly Giff32

American children's writer 1935

Joan Chittister1

Roman Catholic nun, activist, writer and academic 1936

Ron McLarty1

American actor and writer 1947–2020

Rami M. Shapiro3

American rabbi 1951

Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo1

Catholic bishop 1954

William H. Pryor Jr.4

American judge 1962

Matteo Messina Denaro1

Italian mob boss 1962

Jet Li3

Chinese martial artist and actor 1963

Kevin James4

American actor and comedian 1965

Glenn Jacobs15

American professional wrestler and actor 1967

Melania Trump10

Slovenian model, wife of Donald Trump and First Lady of the… 1970

Lisa Unger10

American author 1970

Jessica Lynch11

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1983

Rutger Bregman3

Dutch journalist, writer and historian 1988

Aaron Judge5

American baseball player 1992

James Alex Fields3

1997

Death

Attar of Nishapur18

Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

Jeremy Collier1

English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian 1650–1726

Josiah Quincy II1

American lawyer 1744–1775

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky69

occult writer 1831–1891

George Herbert Mead6

American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist 1863–1931

Arnold Sommerfeld2

physicist 1868–1951

Gichin Funakoshi1

Martial artist 1868–1957

Hermann von Keyserling5

German philosopher 1880–1946

Morihei Ueshiba50

founder of aikido 1883–1969

Srinivasa Ramanujan2

Indian mathematician 1887–1920

Bessie Love3

American actress (1898–1986) 1898–1986

Andrei Grechko6

Soviet military commander 1903–1976

Count Basie2

American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer 1904–1984

Carl B. Boyer15

American mathematician 1906–1976

Lucille Ball25

American actress and businesswoman 1911–1989

Gypsy Rose Lee3

American burlesque performer, actress, author 1911–1970

Stirling Silliphant2

American screenwriter and film producer 1918–1996

Jack Valenti35

President of the MPAA 1921–2007

Hubert Selby Jr.39

American writer 1928–2004

George Jones8

American musician, singer and songwriter 1931–2013

David Fasold1

American sailor 1939–1998