Anniversaries 26 August

Birth

Robert Walpole8

British statesman 1676–1745

Johann Heinrich Lambert8

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer 1728–1777

Antoine Lavoisier7

French chemist 1743–1794

Albert, Prince Consort2

husband of Queen Victoria 1819–1861

Lee De Forest7

American inventor 1873–1961

John Buchan145

British politician 1875–1940

Guillaume Apollinaire28

French poet 1880–1918

Earl Long1

American politician and the 45th Governor of Louisiana for … 1895–1960

Maxwell D. Taylor41

United States general 1901–1987

Christopher Isherwood35

English novelist 1904–1986

Matka Tereza52

Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910–1997

Julio Cortázar29

Argentinian writer 1914–1984

Hutton Gibson2

American writer 1918

Harbhajan Singh Yogi14

Indian-American Sikh Yogi 1929–2004

Benedict Anderson1

American political scientist 1936–2015

Gennady Yanayev3

USSR politician 1937–2010

Barbara Ehrenreich12

American writer and journalist 1941

Jo Freeman1

writer, lawyer 1945

Edward Witten20

American theoretical physicist 1951

Will Shortz1

American puzzle creator and editor 1952

Maneka Gandhi26

Indian politician and activist 1956

Tariq Ramadan8

Swiss muslim scholar 1962

Chris Heimerdinger4

American writer 1963

Marcus du Sautoy3

British professor of mathematics 1965

Jonas Ridderstråle6

Swedish business theorist 1966

Shirley Manson4

Scottish singer and artist 1966

Michael Gove18

British politician 1967

Andy Muschietti2

Argentine film director and screenwriter 1973

Allison Robertson1

American musician 1979

John Mulaney26

American actor and comedian 1982

Danielle Savre3

actress 1988

Death

John of Bohemia1

Czech king and warrior 1296–1346

Thomas Bradwardine9

Theologian; Archbishop of Canterbury 1300–1349

Denis Papin7

French physicist, mathematician and inventor 1647–1713

Alessandro Cagliostro25

Italian occultist 1743–1795

Louis Philippe I3

King of the French 1773–1850

William James246

American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842–1910

Ralph Vaughan Williams13

English composer 1872–1958

Roger Nash Baldwin7

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder 1884–1981

Franz Werfel6

Austrian-Bohemian author 1890–1945

Charles Lindbergh39

American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social ac… 1902–1974

Howard P. Robertson28

American mathematician and physicist 1903–1961

Irving Stone21

American writer 1903–1989

Mika Waltari2

Finnish author 1908–1979

Samuli Paronen2

1917–1974

Dominick Dunne1

writer, journalist 1925–2009

Robert Denning13

American interior designer 1927–2005

Neil Simon13

playwright, writer, academic 1927–2018

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales3

Iranian poet 1928–1990

Tobe Hooper1

American film director, screenwriter and producer 1943–2017