On This Day — May 26
3821 noted people were born and 1870 died on May 26 in our archive, including Alejandro Foxley, Bohdan Beniuk and Boris Chicherin.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 26
Alejandro Foxley
b. 1939
Bohdan Beniuk
b. 1957
Boris Chicherin
1828 – 1904
Catherine Plaisant
b. 1957
Charles-Victor Langlois
1863 – 1929
Denis Tillinac
1947 – 2020
Ekaterina Filippovna Lachova
b. 1948
George Schaller
b. 1933
Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias
1946 – 2019
Gilles Pélisson
b. 1957
Guillaume Pepy
b. 1958
Heinrich Geißler
1814 – 1879
Jean Bernard
1907 – 2006
Jeremy Corbyn
b. 1949
Julius Stieglitz
1867 – 1937
Klaus-Jürgen Bathe
b. 1943
Leon Kieres
b. 1948
Martin Paul Eve
b. 1986
Michel Ciment
1938 – 2023
Nick Thomas-Symonds
b. 1980
Nikolay Maksyuta
1947 – 2020
Oskar Halecki
1891 – 1973
Renato Brunetta
b. 1950
Robert Yerkes
1876 – 1956
Ruprecht Polenz
b. 1946
Sadao Araki
1877 – 1966
Simon Armitage
b. 1963
Vitaly Korotich
1936 – 2025
Yaroslav Kuzminov
b. 1957
Aaron Douglas
1899 – 1979
Adam Curtis
b. 1955
Adolf Krischanitz
b. 1946
Alan Hollinghurst
b. 1954
Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella
1790 – 1873
Alvin Edward O'Konski
1904 – 1987
Amnon Shashua
b. 1960
Andrew Kenneth Burroughs
1953 – 2014
André Devambez
1867 – 1944
Anne McGuire
b. 1949
António Maria da Silva
1872 – 1950
Aritha Van Herk
b. 1954
Arno Gruen
1923 – 2015
Arthur James Boucot
1924 – 2017
Arthur Robert Hinks
1873 – 1945
Aruna Roy
b. 1946
Augustus Clifford
1788 – 1877
Bartha Knoppers
b. 1951
Benjamin Peary Pal
1906 – 1989
Boucar Diouf
b. 1965
Burkhard Gotthelf Struve
1671 – 1738
Camille Galliard-Minier
b. 1975
Camille Huysmans
1871 – 1968
Cedric Drewe
1896 – 1971
Constantine Dafermos
b. 1941
Daniel F. McComas
b. 1953
Dolly Montoya Castaño
b. 1948
Doris Dörrie
b. 1955
Dorothy Thornhill
b. 1955
Edmond de Goncourt
1822 – 1896
Eduard Grüneisen
1877 – 1949
Edward Porter Alexander
1835 – 1910
Eric Halstead
1912 – 1991
Erica Terpstra
b. 1943
Erich Hackl
b. 1954
Ernest Debenham
1865 – 1952
Eugene Aynsley Goossens
1893 – 1962
Ewa Klamt
b. 1950
François Legault
b. 1957
Frederick William George White
1905 – 1994
Frederik X of Denmark
b. 1968
Gilbert Harman
1938 – 2021
Halil İnalcık
1916 – 2016
Hamid Ul Haq
1968 – 2025
Hans Grüneberg
1907 – 1982
Harry Gordon Johnson
1923 – 1977
Harry L. Hollingworth
1880 – 1956
Heinrich Biltz
1865 – 1943
Henry Hicks
1837 – 1899
Horace Smith-Dorrien
1858 – 1930
Imants Kalniņš
b. 1941
Ingebjørg Godskesen
b. 1957
István Tarlós
b. 1948
Jacob Jensen
b. 1973
James Bell Pettigrew
1832 – 1908
James Sinclair
1908 – 1984
Jan Schakowsky
b. 1944
Janusz Śniadek
b. 1955
Joachim Schwermer
b. 1950
Jochen Liedtke
1953 – 2001
Joe Cunningham
b. 1982
Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso
1760 – 1826
John Baird
b. 1969
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
1650 – 1722
John E. Hull
1895 – 1975
Jonathan Edwards
1745 – 1801
Josef Vágner
1928 – 2000
Julian H. Lewis
1891 – 1989
Karlene Maywald
b. 1961
Kathryn Edin
b. 1962
Kerry Ingram
b. 1999
Kiichirō Kumagai
1866 – 1949
Larisa Brychyova
b. 1957
Lars E. Hanssen
b. 1949
Leslie D. Gottlieb
1936 – 2012
Lorraine Monk
1922 – 2020
Lou van den Dries
b. 1951
Luigi Mazzella
b. 1932
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
b. 1938
Maksim Sedej
1909 – 1974
Manfred Kanther
b. 1939
Marcela Peredo
b. 1980
Marianne Andersson
b. 1942
Marte Michelet
b. 1975
María Fernanda Ceriani
b. 1966
Max Le Blanc
1865 – 1943
May Blood, Baroness Blood
1938 – 2022
Michael Fleischhacker
b. 1969
Michael Portillo
b. 1953
Miriam Elizabeth Simpson
1894 – 1991
Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam
1924 – 2018
Monkey Punch
1937 – 2019
Muriel McQueen Fergusson
1899 – 1997
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
1936 – 2013
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
1700 – 1760
Nigel Bowen
1911 – 1994
Olaf Gulbransson
1873 – 1958
Owen Toon
b. 1947
Pam Grier
b. 1949
Pat Carney
1935 – 2023
Pavel Blonsky
1884 – 1941
Prince Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein
1796 – 1858
R. Tait McKenzie
1867 – 1938
Richard Christopher Carrington
1826 – 1875
Richard Maunsell
1868 – 1944
Rihards Kozlovskis
b. 1969
Robert Steadward
b. 1946
Roberto Ago
1907 – 1995
Roland Weitzenböck
1885 – 1955
Roy Dotrice
1923 – 2017
Rudolph Wilde
1857 – 1910
Sally Ride
1951 – 2012
Salma Zahid
b. 1970
Salo Wittmayer Baron
1895 – 1989
Sanal Edamaruku
b. 1955
Seni Pramoj
1905 – 1997
Sergiu Celac
b. 1939
Shoichi Kondo
b. 1958
Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet
1781 – 1859
Sten Lassmann
b. 1982
Sven Delblanc
1931 – 1992
Tetsuzō Tanikawa
1895 – 1989
Theo Rasing
b. 1953
Thomas Spencer Cobbold
1828 – 1886
Thomas Weber
b. 1954
Tilman Kuban
b. 1987
Tom McMillen
b. 1952
Trinidad Arroyo
1872 – 1959
Ueli Maurer
b. 1960
Ulrike Lunacek
b. 1957
Vahakn Dadrian
1926 – 2019
Verónica Alcocer
b. 1976
Victor Sheiman
b. 1958
Vladimir Sukachev
1880 – 1967
Wilhelm Tomaschek
1841 – 1901
William Bolcom
b. 1938
William Jackson Bean
1863 – 1947
William Morgan
1750 – 1833
William Petty
1623 – 1687
Wim Blockmans
b. 1945
Wolfgang Bochow
1944 – 2017
Yeo Bee Yin
b. 1983
Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov
1896 – 1971
Yury Savenko
1961 – 2020
Élisabeth Hubert
b. 1956
Abdulla Shahid
b. 1962
Abel Ferry
1881 – 1918
Abraham de Moivre
1667 – 1754
Adolfo de la Huerta
1881 – 1955
Akmal Burxanov
b. 1981
Al Jolson
1886 – 1950
Alaa Al Aswany
b. 1957
Alaina Lockhart
b. 1974
Alan G. Marshall
1944 – 2025
Alberto Taveira Corrêa
b. 1950
Aldrich Ames
1941 – 2026
Alec McCowen
1925 – 2017
Alex Garland
b. 1970
Alexander Nuno Alvaro
b. 1975
Alexander Pushkin
1799 – 1837
Alexander Wiley
1884 – 1967
Alfred Beckley
1802 – 1888
Alfredo Reichlin
1925 – 2017
Allan Chumak
1935 – 2017
Amanda Bauer
b. 1979
Andrew Jones
1944 – 2015
André Kudelski
b. 1960
Andrés Longton
b. 1982
Anna Jakubowska
1927 – 2022
Antonio Barrette
1899 – 1968
Armand Joseph Bruat
1796 – 1855
… and 3,621 more
Died on May 26
Florence Denmark
1932 – 2026
Louise Weiss
1893 – 1983
Manfred von Ardenne
1907 – 1997
Robert Kraft
1927 – 2015
Andrew Evans
1935 – 2023
Anita Roberts
1942 – 2006
Charles Horace Mayo
1865 – 1939
Eugen Krantz
1844 – 1898
Jack Ward Thomas
1934 – 2016
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
1934 – 2017
Miodrag Radulovacki
1933 – 2014
Roger Grand
1874 – 1962
Ryōtarō Azuma
1893 – 1983
Theodor Morell
1886 – 1948
Yorozu Oda
1868 – 1945
Zbigniew Brzezinski
1928 – 2017
Áron Tamási
1897 – 1966
Aharon Razin
1935 – 2019
Alan Bean
1932 – 2018
Alan Kotok
1941 – 2006
Alan Renouf
1919 – 2008
Alastair Hanton
1926 – 2021
Alexander Engelhardt
1885 – 1960
Alice Nordin
1871 – 1948
Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta
1729 – 1800
Amado Alonso
1896 – 1952
Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour
1897 – 1958
Arthur Winnington-Ingram
1858 – 1946
Ascanio Sobrero
1812 – 1888
Charles B. Rangel
1930 – 2025
Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier
1833 – 1906
Ciriaco De Mita
1928 – 2022
Dea Trier Mørch
1941 – 2001
Eddie Albert
1906 – 2005
Eduardo López de Romaña
1847 – 1912
Emil Konopinski
1911 – 1990
Ernest Solvay
1838 – 1922
Francisque Joseph Duret
1804 – 1865
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
1865 – 1946
Friz Freleng
1905 – 1995
Gaston Dethier
1875 – 1958
George Ball
1909 – 1994
Govindray H. Nayak
1933 – 2023
Haika Grossman
1919 – 1996
Harold Lewis
1923 – 2011
Heije Schaper
1906 – 1996
Heinrich Knirr
1862 – 1944
Helga Eng
1875 – 1966
Henry Darwin Rogers
1808 – 1866
Hermann Schäfer
1892 – 1966
Hermann von Stein
1854 – 1927
Hyde Parker
1786 – 1854
Isaac Parker
1768 – 1830
Jack Vance
1916 – 2013
Jacob Riis
1849 – 1914
Jan Borgman
1929 – 2021
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
1845 – 1902
Jenny Rosenthal Bramley
1909 – 1997
Jim Bunning
1931 – 2017
Joaquim António de Aguiar
1792 – 1884
Johan Gunder Adler
1784 – 1852
Johann Schmeltz
1839 – 1909
John Brigstocke
1945 – 2020
John Jacob Abel
1857 – 1938
John Wesley Warrington
1844 – 1921
Karel Kramář
1860 – 1937
Kido Takayoshi
1833 – 1877
Leonid Portenko
1896 – 1972
Lionel Conacher
1902 – 1954
Llew Edwards
1935 – 2021
Ludolf von Krehl
1861 – 1937
Ludwika Wujec
1941 – 2024
Martha Van Rensselaer
1864 – 1932
Muriel Cooper
1925 – 1994
Nellie Neilson
1873 – 1947
Oleh Hornykiewicz
1926 – 2020
Phyllis Sellick
1911 – 2007
Pierre Bellemare
1929 – 2018
Pierre Hassner
1933 – 2018
Prem Tinsulanonda
1920 – 2019
Ray Barnhart
1928 – 2013
René David
1906 – 1990
Ronald Takaki
1939 – 2009
Roser Bru
1923 – 2021
Samuel Pepys
1633 – 1703
Samuel Yin
1950 – 2026
Sebastian Münster
1488 – 1552
Sidney Smith
1764 – 1840
Sigmund Skard
1903 – 1995
Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel
1910 – 2004
Stanley Ho
1921 – 2020
Svante Samuel Murbeck
1859 – 1946
Sydney Pollack
1934 – 2008
Tsola Dragoycheva
1898 – 1993
Václav Machek
1894 – 1965
William Pearly Oliver
1912 – 1989
William Thomas Amiger
1870 – 1929
William Thomas Councilman
1854 – 1933
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
1680 – 1711
Yasushi Kataoka
1876 – 1946
Yelena Ubiyvovk
1918 – 1942
Yoshinori Shirakawa
1869 – 1932
Yuriy Hnatkevych
1940 – 2025
Abdel Latif El Zein
1932 – 2019
Abdelkader El Djezairi
1808 – 1883
Abraham Lincoln Keister
1852 – 1917
Alan Saret
1944 – 2026
Alexander Bruce Tulloch
1838 – 1920
Alexander Wiley
1884 – 1967
Alfred Beckley
1802 – 1888
Alfred Herbert
1866 – 1957
Alphonse James de Rothschild
1827 – 1905
Arnold Whittall
1935 – 2026
Art Linkletter
1912 – 2010
Arthur M. Sackler
1913 – 1987
Arumugam Thondaman
1964 – 2020
Augustus Francis Fechteler
1857 – 1921
Augustyn Suski
1907 – 1942
Bart Starr
1934 – 2019
Basil Maclear
1881 – 1915
Benjamin Handley Geary
1891 – 1976
Benjamin P. Birdsall
1858 – 1917
Bert Nienhuis
1873 – 1960
Bogdan Ivanovich Khanenko
1849 – 1917
Burdette Keeland
1926 – 2000
Campbell Dixon
1895 – 1960
Carl Christian Traugott Friedemann Goebel
1794 – 1851
Charles II, Elector Palatine
1651 – 1685
Charles Kennedy-Purvis
1884 – 1946
Charles M. McGowan
1923 – 2013
Charles Parker Butt
1830 – 1892
Charles Stuart
1783 – 1865
Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke
1841 – 1911
Charlotte Wilder
1898 – 1980
Charlton Thomas Lewis
1834 – 1904
Chris Moran
1956 – 2010
Christian Wirth
1885 – 1944
Christopher Puller
1774 – 1824
Clarence A. Barnes
1882 – 1970
Co Hoedeman
1940 – 2025
Cornelis Jacobus Snijders
1852 – 1939
Czesław Wycech
1899 – 1977
Dai Anlan
1904 – 1942
Daniel Dewey
1766 – 1815
Denys Sichynsky
1865 – 1909
Dragoljub Mićunović
1930 – 2026
Drew McDermott
1949 – 2022
Edoardo Rovida
1927 – 2026
Edsel Bryant Ford
1893 – 1943
Edward Francis Blewitt
1859 – 1926
Emil Braginsky
1921 – 1998
Emil Steinbach
1846 – 1907
Emiliana de Zubeldia
1888 – 1987
Emmanuel Louis Masqueray
1861 – 1917
Ernst Borinski
1901 – 1983
Eugene James Keogh
1907 – 1989
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria
1636 – 1679
Fernando Iglesias Calderón
1856 – 1942
Fernando Lopez
1904 – 1993
Francis Arthur Aglen
1869 – 1932
Francis Lacey
1859 – 1946
Francis Preston
1765 – 1836
Francis S. Takemoto
1912 – 2002
Frank Nelson Cole
1861 – 1926
Franklin P. Hall
1937 – 2015
František Palacký
1798 – 1876
François-Isidore de Ricard
1779 – 1849
Frederic O. MacCartney
1864 – 1903
Frederick Doidge
1884 – 1954
Fyodor Kostenko
1896 – 1942
Ganesh Prasad Srivastava
1933 – 2011
George Brent
1904 – 1979
George Burton Adams
1851 – 1925
George Glover Crocker
1843 – 1913
George M. Seiders
1844 – 1915
George Newman
1870 – 1948
George Thomas VanBebber
1931 – 2005
Gerald Hawkins
1928 – 2003
Glynn R. Donaho
1905 – 1986
Gustaaf Adolf van den Bergh van Eysinga
1874 – 1957
Gustaf Adolf Montgomery
1791 – 1861
H. S. Doreswamy
1918 – 2021
Hans von Arnim
1859 – 1931
Harry Alexander Smith
1866 – 1929
Henri Barbet de Jouy
1812 – 1896
Henri Chevreau
1823 – 1903
Henry Clay McCormick
1844 – 1902
Holger Petersen
1843 – 1917
Hooshang Seyhoun
1920 – 2014
Ida Saxton McKinley
1847 – 1907
Ignacio María de Álava y Sáenz de Navarrete
1750 – 1817
Igor Vasilev
1966 – 2023
Isaiah Fawkes Everhart
1840 – 1911
Jacob Otto Lange
1833 – 1902
James Bell
1804 – 1857
James F. Izlar
1832 – 1912
James Thorburn
1830 – 1905
Jean Isidore Harispe
1768 – 1855
Jean-Raymond Abrial
1938 – 2025
Jerome Hellman
1928 – 2021
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