On This Day — August 26
3937 noted people were born and 1802 died on August 26 in our archive, including Albert B. Sabin, Anatoly Torkunov and Antoine Lavoisier.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 26
Albert B. Sabin
1906 – 1993
Anatoly Torkunov
b. 1950
Antoine Lavoisier
1743 – 1794
Ben Bradlee
1921 – 2014
Enrique Moles Ormella
1883 – 1953
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
1886 – 1984
Alain Peyrefitte
1925 – 1999
Atul Butte
1969 – 2025
August Rossbach
1823 – 1898
Benedict Anderson
1936 – 2015
Boris Vannikov
1897 – 1962
Charles Richet
1850 – 1935
Edward Witten
b. 1951
Emil Hurezeanu
b. 1955
Fazail Agamali
1947 – 2026
Federigo Zuccari
1783 – 1817
Felix Mitelman
b. 1940
Félix Archimède Pouchet
1800 – 1872
Geraldine Ferraro
1935 – 2011
Graça Foster
b. 1953
Guy von Dardel
1919 – 2009
Henrik Kauffmann
1888 – 1963
Henry Fawcett
1833 – 1884
Hugh Montgomery
b. 1944
Jan Eduard de Quay
1901 – 1985
Javier Tusell
1945 – 2005
Jeannette Bougrab
b. 1973
José Villegas Cordero
1844 – 1921
Karen Spärck Jones
1935 – 2007
Lee de Forest
1873 – 1961
Marco Dorigo
b. 1961
Marjorie Jacobs
1915 – 2013
Michael Wooldridge
b. 1966
Pavel Yudin
1899 – 1968
Pilar Civeira
b. 1952
Rafael Calvo Ortega
1933 – 2025
Rama Govindarajan
b. 1962
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
b. 1962
Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar
b. 1947
Susanna Mkrtchyan
b. 1949
Tom Ridge
b. 1945
Valeri Popenchenko
1937 – 1975
Walter Bruno Henning
1908 – 1967
Wolfgang Petritsch
b. 1947
Zdeněk Veselovský
1928 – 2006
Zugura Rakhmatullina
b. 1961
Éric Fottorino
b. 1960
Albert Yavuryan
1935 – 2007
Alberte Pullman
1920 – 2011
Alejandro Pidal y Mon
1846 – 1913
Alexander Zhilkin
b. 1959
Alice Wang
b. 1964
Amos Smith
1944 – 2025
Anahit Tsitsikian
1926 – 1999
Andrei Kirilenko
1906 – 1990
André Lebon
1859 – 1938
André-Albert Blais
1842 – 1919
André-Philippe Futa
1946 – 2009
Archibald Levin Smith
1836 – 1901
Arvo Sarapuu
1953 – 2020
Ashley Gjøvik
b. 1986
Ayşe Kulin
b. 1941
Barbara Ehrenreich
1941 – 2022
Bernard Jauréguiberry
1815 – 1887
Biruta Lewaszkiewicz-Petrykowska
1927 – 2022
Bob Holden
b. 1949
Bohdan Pniewski
1897 – 1965
Chaikasem Nitisiri
b. 1948
Charles Le Gendre
1830 – 1899
Charles Sladen
1816 – 1884
Charlotte Sahl-Madsen
b. 1964
Chen Yi
1901 – 1972
Chi-Ming Chu
1917 – 1998
Christian Schmidt
b. 1957
Christopher Rufo
b. 1984
Daphne Caruana Galizia
1964 – 2017
David A. Brading
1936 – 2024
David Hurley
b. 1953
David Nabarro
1949 – 2025
Dean Godson
b. 1962
Dennis V. McGinn
b. 1945
Don W. Cleveland
b. 1950
Edmund Weiss
1837 – 1917
Fernando Schwalb López Aldana
1916 – 2002
Franz Gürtner
1881 – 1941
Freda Koblick
1920 – 2011
Gennady Yanayev
1937 – 2010
George M. Langford
b. 1944
Gerard J. Campbell
1919 – 2012
Giancarlo Abete
b. 1950
Giorgio Del Vecchio
1878 – 1970
Giuseppe Vitali
1875 – 1932
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
1925 – 2010
Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe
b. 1966
Hal B. Jennings
1915 – 2008
Hale Woodruff
1900 – 1980
Hans Pettersson
1888 – 1966
Heinrich Quincke
1842 – 1922
Helen L. Koch
1895 – 1977
Hinrich Johannes Rink
1819 – 1893
Hugh Dalton
1887 – 1962
Hugo Duminil-Copin
b. 1985
Ilyse Hogue
b. 1969
Ines Schwerdtner
b. 1989
Innocent of Alaska
1797 – 1879
Isaac Berenblum
1903 – 2000
James Franck
1882 – 1964
Jan Marinus Wiersma
b. 1951
Jean-Pierre Vincent
1942 – 2020
Jesse Martin
b. 1981
Jim Graham
1945 – 2017
Joe Engle
1932 – 2024
Johan Frederik Rudolph van Hooff
1755 – 1816
Johan Hederstedt
b. 1943
Johann Heinrich Lambert
1728 – 1777
Johannes Ledolter
1950 – 2023
John Buchan
1875 – 1940
John E. Blaha
b. 1942
John Latham
1877 – 1964
John M. Schiff
1904 – 1987
Jorge Paulo Lemann
b. 1939
Josef Krainer junior
1930 – 2016
José Luis Munárriz
1762 – 1830
José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia
1835 – 1922
Jozef Makúch
b. 1953
Jules Romains
1885 – 1972
Julius Döpfner
1913 – 1976
Kamil Idris
b. 1954
Karen Ellemann
b. 1969
Karl Laux
1896 – 1978
Katherine Johnson
1918 – 2020
Kazimierz Puzak
1883 – 1950
Koh Tsu Koon
b. 1949
Louis François Georges Baby
1832 – 1906
Louis Jules Behier
1813 – 1876
Loïc Wacquant
b. 1960
Lucien Musset
1922 – 2004
Lucília Gago
b. 1956
Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler
1802 – 1848
Magdaléna Vášáryová
b. 1948
Maimunah Mohd Sharif
b. 1961
Mario di Carpegna
1856 – 1924
Maxime Faget
1921 – 2004
Maxwell D. Taylor
1901 – 1987
Mehriban Alieva
b. 1964
Michael Gove
b. 1967
Mohammad Mustafa
b. 1954
Mom Luang Panadda Diskul
b. 1956
Nicolas Bouzou
b. 1976
Nikky Finney
b. 1957
Oriana Bandiera
b. 1971
Oronzio Gabriele Costa
1787 – 1867
Otto Küstner
1849 – 1931
Patrick Devedjian
1944 – 2020
Pavel Fischer
b. 1965
Peter von Meyendorff
1796 – 1863
Philippe Rio
b. 1974
Prem Tinsulanonda
1920 – 2019
Priit Pärn
b. 1946
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1819 – 1861
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
b. 1944
Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco
b. 1962
Pyotr Todorovsky
1925 – 2013
Ram Mohan
1931 – 2019
Rashad Nabiyev
b. 1977
René Tavernier
1914 – 1992
Riho Breivel
b. 1952
Robert Biddulph
1835 – 1918
Robert Walpole
1676 – 1745
Ron Huldai
b. 1944
Roser Suñé Pascuet
b. 1960
Rudolf Belling
1886 – 1972
Rufino Tamayo
1899 – 1990
Sabine Hyland
b. 1964
Sargis Barkhudaryan
1887 – 1972
Sergei Korzhinsky
1861 – 1900
Sergey Gerasimov
1885 – 1964
Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough
1941 – 2023
Shekhar Gupta
b. 1957
Shimshon Amitsur
1921 – 1994
Stella Namoe Nyomera
b. 1973
Stephen J. Dubner
b. 1963
Stephen Joseph Perry
1833 – 1889
Steve Yarbrough
b. 1947
Swapan Chattopadhyay
b. 1951
Takurō Mochizuki
b. 1972
Tam David-West
1936 – 2019
Valeri Bganba
b. 1953
Victoria Lundblad
b. 1952
Villu Kõve
b. 1971
W. Michael Hanemann
b. 1944
Warington Wilkinson Smyth
1817 – 1890
William Ivey
1838 – 1892
William Joseph Behr
1775 – 1851
Wolfgang Sawallisch
1923 – 2013
Yamashita Gentarō
1863 – 1931
Yoshiko Ishiba
b. 1956
Yumiko Igarashi
b. 1950
Zbigniew Pacelt
1951 – 2021
Zéphirin Diabré
b. 1959
… and 3,737 more
Died on August 26
Daniel Gorenstein
1923 – 1992
Alexander Bukirev
1903 – 1964
Aloysius Ambrozic
1930 – 2011
Andrew W. Mellon
1855 – 1937
Barksdale Hamlett
1908 – 1979
Denis Papin
1647 – 1713
Ernest Mason Satow
1843 – 1929
Frederick Reines
1918 – 1998
Frederick Young
1876 – 1948
Friedrich Miescher
1844 – 1895
Grzegorz Miecugow
1955 – 2017
Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
1821 – 1895
John J. Gilligan
1921 – 2013
Jomar Brun
1904 – 1993
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman
1929 – 2016
Nabil Elaraby
1935 – 2024
Simon Featherstone
1958 – 2014
Walther Hess
1900 – 1986
Yehoshafat Harkabi
1921 – 1994
Zbigniew Pawłowicz
1943 – 2023
Édouard Pierre Marie Chassaignac
1804 – 1879
Éleuthère Mascart
1837 – 1908
Adinath Lahiri
1916 – 1975
Albert Howard Trow
1863 – 1939
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse
1918 – 1996
Alesʹ Razanaŭ
1947 – 2021
Alexander George Woodford
1782 – 1870
Alexander Goehr
1932 – 2024
André-Paul Duchâteau
1925 – 2020
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632 – 1723
Bertram Hopkinson
1874 – 1918
Bob de Moor
1925 – 1992
Carl Fredrik Fallén
1764 – 1830
Catherine Dorris Norrell
1901 – 1981
Chen Jiayong
1922 – 2019
Christian Bourquin
1954 – 2014
Clinton Thomas Dent
1850 – 1912
Edvard Bull Sr.
1881 – 1932
Edward Seidensticker
1921 – 2007
Els Veder-Smit
1921 – 2020
Emilia Ferreiro
1937 – 2023
Ernest Clark
1864 – 1951
Francis Fremantle
1872 – 1943
Francisco Antonio Encina
1874 – 1965
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
1833 – 1910
Gaston Thorn
1928 – 2007
George Band
1929 – 2011
George Hoadly
1826 – 1902
Gerald Carr
1932 – 2020
Gleb Panfilov
1934 – 2023
Halvor Heyerdahl Rasch
1805 – 1883
Hamaguchi Osachi
1870 – 1931
Hans Fränkel
1916 – 2003
Hans Leesment
1873 – 1944
Harry Marshall Ward
1854 – 1906
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
1879 – 1967
Henri Joseph Dugué
1835 – 1914
Howard P. Robertson
1903 – 1961
James Wilson
1835 – 1920
Johann Franz Encke
1791 – 1865
Johannes Nellemann
1831 – 1906
John Miller Adye
1819 – 1900
John Strachey
1860 – 1927
Josep Caixal i Estradé
1803 – 1879
Joseph Tyrrell
1858 – 1957
Kingsley Barrett
1917 – 2011
Ludvig Theodor Almqvist
1818 – 1884
Lutz Hachmeister
1959 – 2024
Lynden Pindling
1930 – 2000
Marian Walentynowicz
1896 – 1967
Marie-Dominique Philippe
1912 – 2006
Marta Portal
1930 – 2016
Mikhail Prusak
1960 – 2025
N. S. Hardikar
1889 – 1975
Nils Personne
1918 – 2013
Olaf Holtedahl
1885 – 1975
Olavo Setúbal
1923 – 2008
P. J. Cosijn
1840 – 1899
Parris H. Chang
1936 – 2023
Pauls Kalniņš
1872 – 1945
Pavel Platonovich Potocki
1857 – 1938
Pita Paraone
1945 – 2019
Raimon Panikkar
1918 – 2010
Rainer Barzel
1924 – 2006
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 – 1958
Reginald Bartholomew
1936 – 2012
Reima Pietilä
1923 – 1993
Roger Nash Baldwin
1884 – 1981
Roman Abraham
1891 – 1976
Tempest Anderson
1846 – 1913
Teodor Axentowicz
1859 – 1938
Tex Avery
1908 – 1980
Thomas Bradwardine
1300 – 1349
Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich
1875 – 1929
Thomas Sterling
1851 – 1930
Toyohiro Akiyama
1942 – 2026
Ume Kenjirō
1860 – 1910
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
1879 – 1962
William B. Lenoir
1939 – 2010
William Byrd II
1674 – 1744
William James
1842 – 1910
William Morton Fullerton
1865 – 1952
Wojciech Żukrowski
1916 – 2000
Yvan Lamonde
1944 – 2025
Abala Bose
1864 – 1951
Abdul Qayum Sher
1919 – 2013
Achille Pierre Deffontaines
1858 – 1914
Ada Gertrude Paterson
1880 – 1937
Adam von Trott zu Solz
1909 – 1944
Adelardo Covarsí
1885 – 1951
Adolf von Schlagintweit
1829 – 1857
Akbar Bugti
1926 – 2006
Alejo Lira Infante
1880 – 1966
Alfred Gelder
1855 – 1941
Amelia Boynton Robinson
1911 – 2015
Anna German
1936 – 1982
Annie Kriegel
1926 – 1995
António, Prior of Crato
1531 – 1595
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria
1680 – 1741
Arthur Biedl
1869 – 1933
Arthur Laban Bates
1859 – 1934
Augusto Orrego Luco
1849 – 1933
Bernard Fonlon
1924 – 1986
Bicky Chakraborty
1943 – 2022
Bob Barker
1923 – 2023
Bruce Bennett
1917 – 1979
Carolina Falco
1839 – 1906
Charles Boyer
1899 – 1978
Charles Latham
1882 – 1968
Charles Lindbergh
1902 – 1974
Charles McFadyen
1892 – 1965
Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
1685 – 1754
Charles Scribner I
1821 – 1871
Charles W. Sandman, Jr.
1921 – 1985
Charlie Brown
1936 – 2022
Christian Bonaud
1957 – 2019
Clayton E. Crafts
1848 – 1920
Clyde Walcott
1926 – 2006
Cornelis Schrevel
1608 – 1664
Dagobert Banzio
1957 – 2017
Daniel Dole
1808 – 1878
Daniel Gottlob Türk
1750 – 1813
David M. Stanley
1928 – 2015
David M. Woodson
1806 – 1877
David Warburton
1965 – 2025
Davoud Rashidi
1933 – 2016
Dick H. Guinn
1918 – 1980
Donald Hopson
1915 – 1974
Donn A. Starry
1925 – 2011
Doug Everingham
1923 – 2017
Douglas Wimberley
1896 – 1983
Dušan Simović
1882 – 1962
Edgar William Cox
1882 – 1918
Edgar-Rodolphe-Eugène Chevrier
1887 – 1956
Edward Fowler
1632 – 1714
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
1883 – 1962
Edward Voigt
1873 – 1934
Elijah Monte Radlovic
1914 – 2000
Ellie Greenwich
1940 – 2009
Ernst Schmidt
1830 – 1900
Ethel Winifred Bennett Chase
1877 – 1949
Eugène Aujaleu
1903 – 1990
Fabio Biancalani
1961 – 2024
Fakhreddin Shadman
1907 – 1967
Francis Chichester
1901 – 1972
Frank West
1850 – 1923
Franz Riegel
1843 – 1904
François Anatole Laurent de Rillé
1824 – 1915
Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung
1822 – 1864
Friedrich von Keller
1840 – 1914
Fyodor Kamensky
1836 – 1913
Félix Desportes
1763 – 1849
Georg Escherich
1870 – 1941
Georg Wittig
1897 – 1987
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
1716 – 1785
George J. Eade
1921 – 2018
George L. Browning
1867 – 1947
George T. Winston
1852 – 1932
Geraint Stanley Jones
1936 – 2015
Geraldo Majella Agnelo
1933 – 2023
Gerhard Heinrich Dieke
1901 – 1965
Gilles Joseph Martin Bruneteau
1760 – 1830
Girolamo Borro
1512 – 1592
Hana Zagorová
1946 – 2022
Hans Nobel
1657 – 1732
Harry Dinnel
1940 – 2017
Harry Elmer Barnes
1889 – 1968
Heinrich Cunow
1862 – 1936
Helen E. Haines
1872 – 1961
Henry S. Julian
1862 – 1939
Hiraoka Sadatarō
1863 – 1942
Hou Debang
1890 – 1974
Ian Kerr
1965 – 2019
Inge Borkh
1921 – 2018
Irena Bernášková
1904 – 1942
Isaac Gascoyne
1763 – 1841
Isabel Toledo
1960 – 2019
Ismail al-Azhari
1901 – 1969
Jacques Bergeret
1771 – 1857
Jalaluddin Umri
1935 – 2022
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