Anniversaries 26 August
Birth
![Robert Walpole photo]()
British statesman
1676–1745
![Johann Heinrich Lambert photo]()
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
1728–1777
![Albert, Prince Consort photo]()
husband of Queen Victoria
1819–1861
![Lee De Forest photo]()
American inventor
1873–1961
![John Buchan photo]()
British politician
1875–1940
![Earl Long photo]()
American politician and the 45th Governor of Louisiana for …
1895–1960
![Maxwell D. Taylor photo]()
United States general
1901–1987
![Christopher Isherwood photo]()
English novelist
1904–1986
![Matka Tereza photo]()
Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
1910–1997
![Julio Cortázar photo]()
Argentinian writer
1914–1984
![Harbhajan Singh Yogi photo]()
Indian-American Sikh Yogi
1929–2004
![Benedict Anderson photo]()
American political scientist
1936–2015
![Gennady Yanayev photo]()
USSR politician
1937–2010
![Barbara Ehrenreich photo]()
American writer and journalist
1941
![Edward Witten photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1951
![Will Shortz photo]()
American puzzle creator and editor
1952
![Maneka Gandhi photo]()
Indian politician and activist
1956
![Tariq Ramadan photo]()
Swiss muslim scholar
1962
![Marcus du Sautoy photo]()
British professor of mathematics
1965
![Jonas Ridderstråle photo]()
Swedish business theorist
1966
![Shirley Manson photo]()
Scottish singer and artist
1966
![Andy Muschietti photo]()
Argentine film director and screenwriter
1973
![John Mulaney photo]()
American actor and comedian
1982
Death
![John of Bohemia photo]()
Czech king and warrior
1296–1346
![Thomas Bradwardine photo]()
Theologian; Archbishop of Canterbury
1300–1349
![Denis Papin photo]()
French physicist, mathematician and inventor
1647–1713
![Alessandro Cagliostro photo]()
Italian occultist
1743–1795
![Louis Philippe I photo]()
King of the French
1773–1850
![William James photo]()
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
1842–1910
![Ralph Vaughan Williams photo]()
English composer
1872–1958
![Roger Nash Baldwin photo]()
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder
1884–1981
![Franz Werfel photo]()
Austrian-Bohemian author
1890–1945
![Charles Lindbergh photo]()
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social ac…
1902–1974
![Howard P. Robertson photo]()
American mathematician and physicist
1903–1961
![Irving Stone photo]()
American writer
1903–1989
![Dominick Dunne photo]()
writer, journalist
1925–2009
![Robert Denning photo]()
American interior designer
1927–2005
![Neil Simon photo]()
playwright, writer, academic
1927–2018
![Tobe Hooper photo]()
American film director, screenwriter and producer
1943–2017
