On This Day — January 26
4045 noted people were born and 2095 died on January 26 in our archive, including François Robert, Michael G. Marmot and Roy Chapman Andrews.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 26
François Robert
b. 1951
Michael G. Marmot
b. 1945
Roy Chapman Andrews
1884 – 1960
Alberto Clò
b. 1947
Ancel Keys
1904 – 2004
Barbara Kruger
b. 1945
Barbara Simons
b. 1941
Bharat Ratra
b. 1960
Blaž Zupan
b. 1968
Charles Petit-Dutaillis
1868 – 1947
David F. Swensen
1954 – 2021
Deanell Reece Tacha
b. 1946
Donald Sarason
1933 – 2017
Edward Sapir
1884 – 1939
Eldar Shengelaya
1933 – 2025
Eliakim Hastings Moore
1862 – 1932
Farman Fatehpuri
1926 – 2013
Gunnar Bovim
b. 1960
Hans Selye
1907 – 1982
Heinrich von Pierer
b. 1941
John H Coates
1945 – 2022
John Jenkins
b. 1955
José María Valverde
1926 – 1996
Julia Anna Gardner
1882 – 1960
Jörg Haider
1950 – 2008
Leo Goldberg
1913 – 1987
Leonid Parfyonov
b. 1960
Louis Agricola Bauer
1865 – 1932
Louis Gallois
b. 1944
Mark Welsh
b. 1953
Maurice Pujo
1872 – 1955
Max Gluckman
1911 – 1975
Murat Hapsirokov
b. 1978
Máximo Huerta Hernández
b. 1971
Olga Tufnell
1905 – 1985
Paul Slovic
b. 1938
Polykarp Kusch
1911 – 1993
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad
b. 1964
Richard DeMillo
b. 1947
Seán MacBride
1904 – 1988
Virginijus Šikšnys
b. 1956
Wilder Penfield
1891 – 1976
Abdellatif Filali
1928 – 2009
Adrian Józef Galbas
b. 1968
Akio Morita
1921 – 1999
Albio Sires
b. 1951
Alexander King
1909 – 2007
Alexandre Goüin
1792 – 1872
Anahid Ajemian
1924 – 2016
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
b. 1953
Andreas Wagner
b. 1967
Andrew Thomson
1936 – 2014
Andrzej Tomaszewski
1934 – 2010
Angela Davis
b. 1944
Annette Strauss
1924 – 1998
Anthony Cortese
b. 1947
Armand Gatti
1924 – 2017
Arnold Brecht
1884 – 1977
Arthur Winnington-Ingram
1858 – 1946
Arvīds Pelše
1899 – 1983
Asztrik Várszegi
b. 1946
Barbara Heslop
1925 – 2013
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
1799 – 1864
Bernard Tapie
1943 – 2021
Bessie Coleman
1892 – 1926
Boris Sushkevich
1887 – 1946
Catherine Meyer
b. 1953
Charles François Dumouriez
1739 – 1823
Charles Saint-Prot
b. 1951
Charles Sawyers
b. 1959
Charles-Henri Tabareau
1790 – 1866
Christophe Coin
b. 1958
Ciprian Teleman
b. 1969
Clara Grima
b. 1971
Claude Ryan
1925 – 2004
Conny Aerts
b. 1966
Corrado Augias
b. 1935
Daniel Sylvester Tuttle
1837 – 1923
David M. Schwarz
b. 1951
Denver Beanland
b. 1945
Douglas MacArthur
1880 – 1964
Edward Ronald Walker
1907 – 1988
Edwin Russell Durno
1899 – 1976
Ellen DeGeneres
b. 1958
Elmar Klos
1910 – 1993
Erdmann Encke
1843 – 1896
Eugène Sue
1804 – 1857
Firidun bey Kocharli
1863 – 1920
Frank Orren Lowden
1861 – 1943
Franziskus von Sales Bauer
1841 – 1915
François Coppée
1842 – 1908
Frédéric Lodéon
b. 1952
Galina Solodun
b. 1968
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough
1739 – 1817
Georgia Destouni
b. 1961
Gerard Francisco Timoner III
b. 1968
Giorgio Lattanzi
b. 1939
Gooroodas Banerjee
1844 – 1918
Guido Tabellini
b. 1956
Guillaume Budé
1467 – 1540
Guy Roberge
1915 – 1991
Han Lih-wu
1903 – 1991
Harry Ricardo
1885 – 1974
Hastings Lees-Smith
1878 – 1941
Heinrich Gleißner
1893 – 1984
Henri-Charles Lambrecht
1848 – 1889
Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath
1905 – 1992
Howard Cannon
1912 – 2002
Hu Jimin
1919 – 1998
Hussein al-Araj
b. 1951
Hyun Soong-jong
1919 – 2020
Ivan Grigorovich
1853 – 1930
Ivan van Sertima
1935 – 2009
Jeremy Rifkin
b. 1945
Joan A. Steitz
b. 1941
Johannes Heinrich Ursinus
1608 – 1667
John Bates Clark
1847 – 1938
Joseph W. Westphal
b. 1948
José Mourinho
b. 1963
Julia Hobsbawm
b. 1964
Józef Brudziński
1874 – 1917
Jürgen Kleditzsch
b. 1944
Kevin McCarthy
b. 1965
Kiuchi Jūshirō
1886 – 1925
Kizzmekia Corbett
b. 1986
Kyoko Nakayama
b. 1940
Laura Schwendinger
b. 1962
Leo F. Mullin
b. 1943
Leopold Freiherr von Hauer
1854 – 1933
Lily Newton
1893 – 1981
László Rajk Jr.
1949 – 2019
Margarita Volodina
b. 1938
Mariano Picón Salas
1901 – 1965
Marie Jahoda
1907 – 2001
Mark Dayton
b. 1947
Marzuki Darusman
b. 1945
Maxime Rodinson
1915 – 2004
Meghan O'Rourke
b. 1976
Mihály Varga
b. 1965
Mikhail Frinovsky
1898 – 1940
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
b. 1948
Mohamed Orabi
b. 1951
Montserrat Boix
b. 1960
Murray Rankin
b. 1950
Mustafa Abbasi
b. 1962
Mykhailo Dobkin
b. 1970
Nadia Urbinati
b. 1955
Nick Flynn
b. 1960
Nicolae Ceaușescu
1918 – 1989
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer
b. 1980
Olev Vinn
b. 1971
Paul Robert Magocsi
b. 1945
Percy Girouard
1867 – 1932
Philippe Mangou
b. 1952
Rachel Lloyd
1839 – 1900
Rafael Arias-Salgado
b. 1942
Reinhard Henry Luthin
1905 – 1962
René Etiemble
1909 – 2002
Robert Cailliau
b. 1947
Robert McClelland
b. 1958
Robert Scott
1811 – 1887
Roger Landry
1934 – 2020
Samuel George Morton
1799 – 1851
Satyajit Mayor
b. 1963
Sir Charles Gregory Wade
1863 – 1922
Stanislav Osadchiy
b. 1951
Stanisław Szymecki
1924 – 2023
Stephen Rapp
b. 1949
Susan Friedlander
b. 1946
Susan Griffin
1943 – 2025
Tamás Major
1910 – 1986
Thomas Fowell Buxton
1837 – 1915
Thomas Gumbleton
1930 – 2024
Thomas Maurice Rice
1939 – 2024
Ulrike Poppe
b. 1953
Valerii Semenets
b. 1955
Valter Lang
b. 1958
Vasiliy Rakov
1909 – 1996
Vibeke Sperling
1945 – 2017
Vladimir Makovsky
1846 – 1920
Volodymyr Biletskyy
b. 1950
Volodymyr Shcherban
b. 1950
Walter Krueger
1881 – 1967
Xavier Becerra
b. 1958
Yakov Alksnis
1897 – 1938
Yasujiro Nagata
1867 – 1923
Yuri Ozerov
1921 – 2001
Yuri Raizer
1927 – 2021
Yutaka Matsuo
b. 1975
ACM Neto
b. 1979
Ada Fighiera-Sikorska
1929 – 1996
Alan Fletcher
1907 – 1991
Albert F. Dawson
1872 – 1949
Alberto Di Rubba
b. 1979
Aleksandr Fyodorov
b. 1981
Alexander Carlyle
1722 – 1805
Alexander Hamilton, Jr.
1816 – 1889
Alfred Mathias Grønneberg
1879 – 1963
Alfred Neumann
1900 – 1968
Alfred von Neipperg
1807 – 1865
… and 3,845 more
Died on January 26
Elizabeth Hawley
1923 – 2018
Jean Ichbiah
1940 – 2007
Louis Nirenberg
1925 – 2020
Arthur Cayley
1821 – 1895
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
1918 – 1985
David Sabiston
1924 – 2009
Emilio Alarcos Llorach
1922 – 1998
Ernst Heinrich Weber
1795 – 1878
Ewald Hering
1834 – 1918
Franco Pacini
1939 – 2012
Fredrik Vogt
1892 – 1970
Geoffrey Burbidge
1925 – 2010
George Head Barclay
1862 – 1921
Gerard Philips
1858 – 1942
Hugh Trevor-Roper
1914 – 2003
István Kertész
1904 – 1986
Jean Joseph Mounier
1758 – 1806
Jules Lachelier
1832 – 1918
Leo Mechelin
1839 – 1914
Maurice Sanford Fox
1924 – 2020
Naoki Hoshino
1892 – 1978
Nathaniel R. Jones
1926 – 2020
Nikolai Vavilov
1887 – 1943
Norman MacKenzie
1894 – 1986
Oskar Kallas
1868 – 1946
Philippe Contamine
1932 – 2022
Tam Dalyell
1932 – 2017
Vuk Karadžić
1787 – 1864
Adolf Ciborowski
1919 – 1987
Adriaan van Maanen
1884 – 1946
Albert Sauveur
1863 – 1939
Albert Schultens
1686 – 1750
Aleksandr Roediger
1853 – 1920
Ales Adamovich
1927 – 1994
Alexander Kadakin
1949 – 2017
Alicia M. Soderberg
1977 – 2025
Annemarie Schimmel
1922 – 2003
Annette Dolphin
1951 – 2026
Arto Salomaa
1934 – 2025
Athanase David
1882 – 1953
August Everding
1928 – 1999
Barbara Hale
1922 – 2017
Bear Bryant
1913 – 1983
Boris Evseevitch Bychowsky
1908 – 1974
Carl Bildt
1850 – 1931
Constantin Le Paige
1852 – 1929
Deepak Kumar
1946 – 2016
Dodo Abashidze
1924 – 1990
Edmund B. Gregory
1882 – 1961
Edouard de Pomiane
1875 – 1964
Edward G. Robinson
1893 – 1973
Edward Ignatius Devitt
1840 – 1920
Edward Thornton
1817 – 1906
Elwood Mead
1858 – 1936
Emily Penrose
1858 – 1942
Erosi Manjgaladze
1925 – 1982
Fanula Papazoglu
1917 – 2001
Felix Hausdorff
1868 – 1942
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
1773 – 1850
George Ticknor
1791 – 1871
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
1931 – 2003
Georgi Karaslavov
1904 – 1980
Georgiy Zakharov
1897 – 1957
Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer
1903 – 1996
Hajime Seki
1873 – 1935
Hana Maciuchová
1945 – 2021
Hans Lukaschek
1885 – 1960
Harold Brodkey
1930 – 1996
Hartmut Bagger
1938 – 2024
Henry Briggs
1561 – 1630
Henry de Pène
1830 – 1888
Hiromu Nonaka
1925 – 2018
Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo
1788 – 1845
Jack Acland
1904 – 1981
James Ireland Craig
1868 – 1952
Jean Berthiaume
1915 – 2003
Jean Langevin
1821 – 1892
Jeanne Sauvé
1922 – 1993
Jeanne-Marie Darré
1905 – 1999
Jiří Bičák
1942 – 2024
John Archibald Fairlie
1872 – 1947
John Flett
1869 – 1947
José Emilio Pacheco
1939 – 2014
José Gómez de Arteche
1821 – 1906
Juliusz Bardach
1914 – 2010
Jun'ichi Tomizawa
1924 – 2017
Justas Paleckis
1899 – 1980
Karl-Heinz Narjes
1924 – 2015
Kirsty Duncan
1966 – 2026
Kâzım Karabekir
1882 – 1948
Lewis Mumford
1895 – 1990
Lord Claud Hamilton
1843 – 1925
Ludwig Edinger
1855 – 1918
MacGillivray Milne
1882 – 1959
Madhav Shrihari Aney
1880 – 1968
Mamoru Shigemitsu
1887 – 1957
Manuel do Cenáculo
1724 – 1814
Margaret C. Snyder
1929 – 2021
Mary Elizabeth Bass
1876 – 1956
Michael Sullivan
1838 – 1915
Michel Alcan
1810 – 1877
Myint Htwe
1948 – 2026
Nelson Rockefeller
1908 – 1979
Nikolai Severtzov
1827 – 1885
Nikolay Girs
1820 – 1895
Nikolay Milyutin
1818 – 1872
Nil Filatov
1847 – 1902
Noël Bernard
1874 – 1911
Oscar Loew
1844 – 1941
Peter von Scholten
1784 – 1854
Phin Choonhavan
1891 – 1973
Pierre Grabar
1898 – 1986
Pierre de Poletica
1778 – 1849
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
1906 – 1947
R. K. Laxman
1924 – 2015
Ranulf Compton
1878 – 1974
Raymond Williams
1921 – 1988
René-Xavier Prinet
1861 – 1946
Ricardo Pascale
1942 – 2024
Richard Paul Jodrell
1745 – 1831
Robert Coontz
1864 – 1935
Roland Glowinski
1937 – 2022
Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
1920 – 2016
Schavarch Missakian
1884 – 1957
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
1849 – 1902
Sergey Prikhodko
1957 – 2021
Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
1843 – 1911
Stefan Kudelski
1929 – 2013
Stephen Van Rensselaer
1764 – 1839
Tom Gola
1933 – 2014
Tom Uren
1921 – 2015
Tony Urquhart
1934 – 2022
Vincenc Strouhal
1850 – 1922
Vladimir Mulyavin
1941 – 2003
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
1912 – 2004
William Buell Richards
1815 – 1889
William Sharp Macleay
1792 – 1865
Wilma Lipp
1925 – 2019
Witold Doroszewski
1899 – 1976
Wolferdus Senguerdius
1646 – 1724
Włodzimierz Jastrzębski
1939 – 2024
Émile Deschanel
1819 – 1904
Abraham Ravitz
1934 – 2009
Adelbert H. Roberts
1866 – 1937
Adella Wotherspoon
1903 – 2004
Ahmad Hasan Dani
1920 – 2009
Al McGuire
1928 – 2001
Albert C. Thompson
1842 – 1910
Alexander Cochrane
1758 – 1832
Alexander Kutepov
1882 – 1930
Alexander S. Johnson
1817 – 1878
Alexander Tilloch
1759 – 1825
Alfonso Bartoli
1874 – 1957
Alfredo Avelín
1927 – 2012
Alice Walton
1865 – 1954
Alice Wolf
1933 – 2023
Andrew B. Davidson
1831 – 1902
Antoine-Louis Séguier
1726 – 1792
Anton Ræder
1855 – 1941
Arthur Kramer
1927 – 2008
Arthur Waite
1894 – 1991
Augusto Napoleone Berlese
1864 – 1903
Augustus Hill Garland
1832 – 1899
Aziz Sedki
1920 – 2008
Barbara Howard
1920 – 2017
Barney Cable
1935 – 2026
Basilio Valdes
1892 – 1970
Benjamin F. James
1885 – 1961
Benjamin White Norris
1819 – 1873
Bernardo Leighton
1909 – 1995
Billy Packer
1940 – 2023
Blasio Vincent Ndale Esau Oriedo
1931 – 1966
Boy Trip
1921 – 1990
Bud Brown
1927 – 2022
Carl Eldh
1873 – 1954
Carlos Holmes Trujillo
1951 – 2021
Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke
1864 – 1934
Cesare Pugni
1802 – 1870
Charles Brunier
1901 – 2007
Charles H. Tuttle
1879 – 1971
Charles Harwood Moorman
1876 – 1938
Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle
1684 – 1761
Charles N. Crosby
1876 – 1951
Charles P. Hall
1886 – 1953
Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen
1785 – 1864
Dale Barnstable
1925 – 2019
Daniel Haines
1801 – 1877
David Bannett
1921 – 2022
David E. Finley
1861 – 1917
David Rice Atchison
1807 – 1886
Dietrich von Hildebrand
1889 – 1977
Dirk Gerard Willem Spitzen
1896 – 1957
Domenico II Contarini
1585 – 1675
Don Budge
1915 – 2000
Duane Benson
1945 – 2019
Duncan Gordon Boyes
1846 – 1869
Edgar Schein
1928 – 2023
Eduard de Stoeckl
1804 – 1892
Edward Irving Edwards
1863 – 1931
Edward Jenner
1749 – 1823
… and 1,895 more