Anniversaries 26 May

Birth

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough1

English soldier and statesman 1650–1722

Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf1

German bishop and saint 1700–1760

Thomas Noon Talfourd5

British politician 1795–1854

Aleksandr Pushkin33

Russian poet 1799–1837

Edmond de Goncourt3

French writer 1822–1896

Bob Fitzsimmons2

British boxer 1863–1917

Robert W. Chambers2

American artist, novelist, short story writer 1865–1933

Mary of Teck2

Queen consort of the United Kingdom Empress of India 1867–1953

Sadao Araki19

Japanese general 1877–1966

Vítězslav Nezval2

Czech poet, writer and translator 1900–1958

John Wayne27

American film actor 1907–1979

Robert Morley3

English actor 1908–1992

J. Irwin Miller1

American businessman 1909–2004

Peter Cushing3

English actor 1913–1994

Arno Gruen2

German psychologist 1923–2015

Miles Davis30

American jazz musician 1926–1991

Nguyễn Thị Bình2

Vietnamese politician 1927

Jack Kevorkian20

American pathologist, euthanasia activist 1928–2011

Edward Whittemore1

American writer 1933–1995

Simon Hoggart5

English journalist and broadcaster 1946–2014

Melody Beattie11

American writer 1948

Stevie Nicks21

American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac 1948

Jeremy Corbyn76

British Labour Party politician 1949

Ward Cunningham69

American computer programmer who developed the first wiki 1949

Sally Ride6

American physicist and astronaut 1951–2012

Michael Portillo1

British politician turned television personality 1953

Peter Machado1

Catholic archbishop 1954

Alan Hollinghurst2

English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator 1954

Simon Armitage17

Poet, playwright, novelist 1963

Shi Zhengli2

Chinese researcher 1964

Caitlín R. Kiernan45

writer 1964

Helena Bonham Carter12

British actress 1966

Alex Garland8

English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director 1970

Nobuhiro Watsuki8

Japanese manga artist 1970

Louis Tylka1

American Catholic bishop (born 1970) 1970

Lauryn Hill10

American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actre… 1975

Raina Telgemeier1

American cartoonist, illustrator, writer 1977

Yeo Bee Yin1

Malaysian Politician 1983

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey2

Franco-Spanish actress 1986

Ross Mintzer8

American musician and performer 1987

Julianna Rose Mauriello2

Nieta de. Tesla 1991

Death

Francesco Berni32

Italian poet 1497–1535

Robert Filmer5

English writer 1588–1653

Samuel Pepys16

English naval administrator and member of parliament 1633–1703

Thomas Southerne2

Irish dramatist 1660–1746

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo2

Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosoph… 1714–1799

Roden Noel2

English poet 1834–1894

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad3

religious figure 1835–1908

Ernest Solvay4

Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist 1838–1922

Horatio Bottomley3

English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor… 1860–1933

Charles Horace Mayo1

American physician 1865–1939

Theodor Morell5

Personal physician to Adolf Hitler 1886–1948

Martin Heidegger69

German philosopher 1889–1976

Jacques Lipchitz10

American and French sculptor 1891–1973

Karl Löwith4

German philosopher 1897–1973

Vera Stanley Alder50

British artist 1898–1984

Graham Sutton2

Welsh scientist 1903–1977

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn22

Austrian noble and political theorist 1909–1999

George Ball (diplomat)2

American diplomat 1909–1994

Артур Гордон Линклеттер1

1912–2010

Israel Epstein1

Chinese politician 1915–2005

Jack Vance213

American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

Marion J. Levy Jr.3

American sociologist 1918–2002

Kathleen Winsor4

American author 1919–2003

Robert Kraft (astronomer)2

American astronomer 1927–2015

Zbigniew Brzeziński35

Polish-American political scientist 1928–2017

Alan Bean7

American astronaut and painter 1932–2018

Kanwar Pal Singh Gill2

Indian police officer 1934–2017

Alan Kotok4

American computer scientist 1941–2006

Andrew Fletcher1

English musician, member of Depeche Mode 1961–2022

Andrés Montoya2

American writer 1968–1999