August 26

On This Day

24 people found

Born on this day (14)

1952(1)

Michael Jeter

19522003

American actor

1936(1)

Benedict Anderson

19362015

American political scientist

1920(1)

Prem Tinsulanonda

19202019

former Regent of Thailand

1918(1)

Katherine Johnson

19182020

African-American mathematician

1914(1)

Julio Cortázar

19141984

Argentine writer

1910(1)

Mother Teresa

19101997

Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary

1904(1)

Christopher Isherwood

19041986

English-American novelist

1897(1)

Yun Po-sun

18971990

2nd President of South Korea

1882(1)

James Franck

18821964

German-American physicist

1880(1)

Guillaume Apollinaire

18801918

French poet

1873(1)

Lee de Forest

18731961

American inventor

1850(1)

Charles Richet

18501935

French physiologist and parapsychologist

1743(1)

Antoine Lavoisier

17431794

French nobleman and chemist

1728(1)

Johann Heinrich Lambert

17281777

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer

Died on this day (10)

2024(1)

Sven-Göran Eriksson

19482024

Swedish football manager

2004(1)

Laura Branigan

19522004

American singer and actress

1998(1)

Frederick Reines

19181998

American physicist

1987(1)

Georg Wittig

18971987

German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)

1979(1)

Mika Waltari

19081979

Finnish writer

1974(1)

Charles Lindbergh

19021974

American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist

1958(1)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

18721958

English composer

1945(1)

Franz Werfel

18901945

Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet

1910(1)

William James

18421910

American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

1850(1)

Louis-Philippe I

17731850

King of the French from 1830 to 1848