Anniversaries 26 September

Birth

Charles Macklin2

Irish actor 1699–1797

Isaac Bickerstaffe10

Irish playwright and librettist 1733–1812

Charles Bradlaugh2

British freethinker, and radical politician 1833–1891

Max Ehrmann7

American writer, poet, and attorney 1872–1945

Alfred Cortot4

Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor 1877–1962

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord3

German general 1878–1943

Archibald Hill3

English physiologist and biophysicist 1886–1977

Antonio Moreno3

Spanish-American film actor and director 1887–1967

T.S. Eliot270

20th century English author 1888–1965

J. Frank Dobie2

American writer 1888–1964

Martin Heidegger69

German philosopher 1889–1976

Hans Reichenbach41

American philosopher 1891–1953

Marina Tsvetaeva3

Russian poet and writer 1892–1941

Robert Staughton Lynd3

American sociologist 1892–1970

Pope Paul VI10

262nd Pope of the Catholic Church 1897–1978

George Gershwin12

American composer and pianist 1898–1937

Leonard E. Read23

American academic 1898–1983

George Raft1

American actor 1901–1980

Jack LaLanne24

American exercise instructor 1914–2011

Bertram Raven9

American psychologist 1926

Manmohan Singh27

13th Prime Minister of India 1932

Robert Maxwell Young2

American medical historian 1935–2019

Mehdi Karroubi1

Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed,… 1937

Gloria E. Anzaldúa7

Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory 1942–2004

Bryan Ferry6

English musician 1945

Christine Todd Whitman1

American politician 1946

Andrea Dworkin84

Feminist writer 1946–2005

Patrick J. Geary1

historian 1948

Jane Smiley7

American novelist 1949

Minette Walters1

British crime writer 1949

Mary Crow Dog4

Lakota author and indigenous rights activist 1954–2013

Tanya Huff2

Canadian fantasy author 1957

Robert Kagan7

American political scientist 1958

Will Self11

English writer and journalist 1961

Tracey Thorn4

English singer and songwriter 1962

Petro Poroshenko4

Ukrainian businessman and politician 1965

Scott Heim1

Novelist 1966

Shannon Hoon1

singer-songwriter 1967–1995

Désinord Jean1

1967

Jim Caviezel2

actor 1968

Rich Piana9

American bodybuilder and internet personality 1970–2017

Beto O'Rourke4

American politician 1972

Joey Comeau38

writer 1980

Anand Gandhi8

Indian film director 1980

Serena Williams2

American tennis player 1981

Rebecca Lim3

Singaporean actress 1986

Death

Ibn Taymiyyah7

Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the … 1263–1328

John Byrom31

Poet, inventor of a shorthand system 1692–1763

Daniel Boone6

American settler 1734–1820

Thomas Clarkson1

English abolitionist 1760–1846

Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman2

British politician 1779–1854

Hermann Grassmann10

German polymath, linguist and mathematician 1809–1877

Lahiri Mahasaya5

Indian yogi and guru 1828–1895

Lafcadio Hearn14

writer 1850–1904

Keir Hardie14

Scottish socialist and labour leader 1856–1915

Georg Simmel27

German sociologist, philosopher, and critic 1858–1918

Harriet Monroe4

American poet and editor 1860–1936

George Santayana109

20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with P… 1863–1952

William Henry Davies15

British poet 1871–1940

Béla Bartók3

Hungarian composer and pianist 1881–1945

Hugh Lofting1

British author, trained as a civil engineer 1886–1947

August Macke8

German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter 1887–1914

Charles Erwin Wilson6

American secretary of Defence 1890–1961

Walter Benjamin70

German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892… 1892–1940

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike1

Sri Lankan politician 1899–1959

Helen Kane3

American actress 1904–1966

Alberto Moravia8

Italian writer and journalist 1907–1990

Stanislav Andreski6

Polish-British sociologist 1919–2007

Nils Bohlin2

Swedish inventor 1920–2002

Thomas Dubay1

American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director 1921–2010

Paul Newman38

American actor and film director 1925–2008

Jacques Chirac10

22nd President of France 1932–2019

John D. Barrow58

British scientist 1952–2020

Shawn Lane3

American musician 1963–2003