Anniversaries 26 May
Birth
![John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough photo]()
English soldier and statesman
1650–1722
![Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf photo]()
German bishop and saint
1700–1760
![Thomas Noon Talfourd photo]()
British politician
1795–1854
![Robert W. Chambers photo]()
American artist, novelist, short story writer
1865–1933
![Mary of Teck photo]()
Queen consort of the United Kingdom Empress of India
1867–1953
![Sadao Araki photo]()
Japanese general
1877–1966
![Vítězslav Nezval photo]()
Czech poet, writer and translator
1900–1958
![John Wayne photo]()
American film actor
1907–1979
![J. Irwin Miller photo]()
American businessman
1909–2004
![Arno Gruen photo]()
German psychologist
1923–2015
![Miles Davis photo]()
American jazz musician
1926–1991
![Nguyễn Thị Bình photo]()
Vietnamese politician
1927
![Jack Kevorkian photo]()
American pathologist, euthanasia activist
1928–2011
![Edward Whittemore photo]()
American writer
1933–1995
![Simon Hoggart photo]()
English journalist and broadcaster
1946–2014
![Stevie Nicks photo]()
American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
1948
![Jeremy Corbyn photo]()
British Labour Party politician
1949
![Ward Cunningham photo]()
American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
1949
![Sally Ride photo]()
American physicist and astronaut
1951–2012
![Michael Portillo photo]()
British politician turned television personality
1953
![Alan Hollinghurst photo]()
English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator
1954
![Simon Armitage photo]()
Poet, playwright, novelist
1963
![Alex Garland photo]()
English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director
1970
![Nobuhiro Watsuki photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1970
![Louis Tylka photo]()
American Catholic bishop (born 1970)
1970
![Lauryn Hill photo]()
American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actre…
1975
![Raina Telgemeier photo]()
American cartoonist, illustrator, writer
1977
![Yeo Bee Yin photo]()
Malaysian Politician
1983
![Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey photo]()
Franco-Spanish actress
1986
![Ross Mintzer photo]()
American musician and performer
1987
Death
![Samuel Pepys photo]()
English naval administrator and member of parliament
1633–1703
![Thomas Southerne photo]()
Irish dramatist
1660–1746
![James Burnett, Lord Monboddo photo]()
Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosoph…
1714–1799
![Mirza Ghulam Ahmad photo]()
religious figure
1835–1908
![Ernest Solvay photo]()
Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist
1838–1922
![Horatio Bottomley photo]()
English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor…
1860–1933
![Charles Horace Mayo photo]()
American physician
1865–1939
![Theodor Morell photo]()
Personal physician to Adolf Hitler
1886–1948
![Martin Heidegger photo]()
German philosopher
1889–1976
![Jacques Lipchitz photo]()
American and French sculptor
1891–1973
![Karl Löwith photo]()
German philosopher
1897–1973
![Graham Sutton photo]()
Welsh scientist
1903–1977
![Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn photo]()
Austrian noble and political theorist
1909–1999
![George Ball (diplomat) photo]()
American diplomat
1909–1994
![Israel Epstein photo]()
Chinese politician
1915–2005
![Jack Vance photo]()
American mystery and speculative fiction writer
1916–2013
![Marion J. Levy Jr. photo]()
American sociologist
1918–2002
![Kathleen Winsor photo]()
American author
1919–2003
![Robert Kraft (astronomer) photo]()
American astronomer
1927–2015
![Zbigniew Brzeziński photo]()
Polish-American political scientist
1928–2017
![Alan Bean photo]()
American astronaut and painter
1932–2018
![Kanwar Pal Singh Gill photo]()
Indian police officer
1934–2017
![Alan Kotok photo]()
American computer scientist
1941–2006
![Andrew Fletcher photo]()
English musician, member of Depeche Mode
1961–2022
![Andrés Montoya photo]()
American writer
1968–1999
