On This Day — September 26
4065 noted people were born and 1808 died on September 26 in our archive, including Archibald Hill, Percy Alexander MacMahon and Willem 's Gravesande.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on September 26
Archibald Hill
1886 – 1977
Percy Alexander MacMahon
1854 – 1929
Willem 's Gravesande
1688 – 1742
Alan Andrew Watson
b. 1938
Alexei Mordashov
b. 1965
André Miquel
1929 – 2022
Bai Chunli
b. 1953
Barnes Wallis
1887 – 1979
Christine Todd Whitman
b. 1946
Deepak Nayyar
b. 1946
Fernando Alegría
1918 – 2005
Harut Sassounian
b. 1950
Hary Tanoesoedibjo
b. 1965
Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevski
1905 – 1977
Lene Espersen
b. 1965
Lindsay Skoll
b. 1970
Manmohan Singh
1932 – 2024
Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska
1921 – 2018
Mireille Hadas-Lebel
b. 1940
Ottokar Czernin
1872 – 1932
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
b. 1959
Paul Gervais
1816 – 1879
Rama Thirunamachandran
b. 1966
Serena Williams
b. 1981
Sergei Shmatko
1966 – 2021
Thomas Drew
b. 1970
Yevhen Proniuk
1936 – 2023
Émile Garçon
1851 – 1922
Aelius Everardus Vorstius
1565 – 1624
Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer
1926 – 2020
Alexander Gillies
1891 – 1982
Alexander Gurwitsch
1874 – 1954
Alexander Mezhirov
1923 – 2009
Alexandre Galopin
1879 – 1944
Alfred Cortot
1877 – 1962
Alice Harnoncourt
1930 – 2022
Amy Kwok
b. 1967
Andrei Babitsky
1964 – 2022
Andrew Charlton
b. 1978
Andrey Lukanov
1938 – 1996
Andrzej Pająk
b. 1955
Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder
b. 1957
Anthony Shadid
1968 – 2012
Arno Rink
1940 – 2017
Arthur Kampf
1864 – 1950
Bill McKell
1891 – 1985
Carl Fredrik af Wingård
1781 – 1851
Carlos Cuerpo
b. 1980
Charles Munch
1891 – 1968
Chris Kempczinski
b. 1968
Christopher Hansteen
1784 – 1873
Cipriano Segundo Montesino
1817 – 1901
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
1748 – 1810
Darren Naish
b. 1975
David Chubinashvili
1814 – 1891
Dorian Shainin
1914 – 2000
Edith Abbott
1876 – 1957
Edward M. Kennedy Jr.
b. 1961
Eli Amir
b. 1937
Emilio Monzó
b. 1965
Eric Geddes
1875 – 1937
Ernest Arrighi de Casanova
1814 – 1888
Fedor Bogomolov
b. 1946
Frank Guinta
b. 1970
Frederick Andermann
1930 – 2019
George Giffard
1886 – 1964
George Placzek
1905 – 1955
George Raft
1901 – 1980
Gerhard Hager
1942 – 2025
Gertrud Luckner
1900 – 1995
Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano
1682 – 1766
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
1942 – 2004
Gloria Ray Karlmark
b. 1942
Gregory Crewdson
b. 1962
Grzegorz Bierecki
b. 1963
Hajime Seki
1873 – 1935
Hanna Kokko
b. 1971
Hans Henric von Essen
1755 – 1824
Harold Zvi Schiffrin
1922 – 2024
Heino Falcke
b. 1966
Helena Carreiras
b. 1965
Herman van Bekkum
1932 – 2020
Horace Hayman Wilson
1786 – 1860
Ihor Shurma
b. 1958
Ilya Kormiltsev
1959 – 2007
Ivan Lyudnikov
1902 – 1976
J. Frank Dobie
1888 – 1964
J. Lorand Matory
b. 1961
J. P. Ricciardi
b. 1959
Jakub Jaworowski
b. 1981
James Cumming
1777 – 1861
Jane Smiley
b. 1949
Jean-Loïc Galle
b. 1959
Jitendra Nath Mohanty
1928 – 2023
Johan Poulsen
1890 – 1980
John Anderson
1726 – 1796
Jos Gielen
1898 – 1981
Joseph H. Thompson
1871 – 1928
Joseph Proust
1754 – 1826
Joseph-Enoil Michaud
1888 – 1967
Joshua Zak
1929 – 2024
Jouke de Vries
b. 1960
Justin Girod-Chantrans
1750 – 1841
Krzysztof Michałkiewicz
b. 1953
Leo Graetz
1856 – 1941
Li Qiang
1905 – 1996
Lilly Singh
b. 1988
Louis-Olivier Taillon
1840 – 1923
Louise Beaudoin
b. 1945
Luana Volnovich
b. 1979
Ludvig Vibe
1803 – 1881
Luigi Gui
1914 – 2010
Lyudmila Maksakova
b. 1940
Malcolm Holzman
b. 1940
Malcolm Kilduff
1927 – 2003
Marie-Amélie Le Fur
b. 1988
Mark Kerr
1864 – 1944
Mark Tkaciuk
b. 1966
Melinda Mills
b. 1969
Michael Ambühl
b. 1951
Mikhail Kazakov
1901 – 1979
Nadir al-Arbawi
b. 1949
Nicolas de Rivière
b. 1963
Oleg Basilashvili
b. 1934
Oleg Belozyorov
b. 1969
Oscar Nygren
1872 – 1960
Oskar Dirlewanger
1895 – 1945
Parounak Zelveian
b. 1966
Pascal Bertin
b. 1965
Patrick J. Geary
b. 1948
Patrick Kron
b. 1953
Paul Stephenson
b. 1953
Paul VI
1897 – 1978
Petri Hulkko
b. 1961
Petro Poroshenko
b. 1965
Philipp von Jolly
1809 – 1884
Piet Hut
b. 1952
Piroska Reichard
1884 – 1943
Rafael Anchia
b. 1968
Rafał Grupiński
b. 1952
Raoul Cauvin
1938 – 2021
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
1711 – 1779
Robert A. Lamb
1950 – 2023
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor
1878 – 1950
Robert Kent Gooch
1893 – 1982
Rodolphe Alexandre
b. 1953
S. U. Hastings
1916 – 1991
Salvatore Accardo
b. 1941
Sarkis Zabunyan
b. 1938
Sergey Oldenburg
1863 – 1934
Sergey Veremeenko
b. 1955
Sibyle Veil
b. 1977
Stephan Körner
1913 – 2000
Sue W. Kelly
b. 1936
Suhas Subramanyam
b. 1986
Suzanne Belperron
1900 – 1983
T. S. Eliot
1888 – 1965
Taavi Rõivas
b. 1979
Takashi Takai
b. 1969
Tanya Huff
b. 1957
Tom Snijders
b. 1949
Vasily Yurchenko
b. 1960
Viachaslau Bahdanovich
1878 – 1939
Victor Delbos
1862 – 1916
Viktor Kyrpychov
1845 – 1913
Vincent Connare
b. 1960
Vladimír Remek
b. 1948
Václav Nosek
1892 – 1955
Wang Guangmei
1921 – 2006
Willem Buiter
b. 1949
William R. Muehlberger
1923 – 2011
Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie
1893 – 1977
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
1936 – 2018
Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin
1847 – 1926
Xavier Jaravel
b. 1989
Yoshihiro Sakata
b. 1942
Yury Sinelshchikov
b. 1947
Zaccaria Giacometti
1893 – 1970
Zach Klein
b. 1982
Émile Servais
1847 – 1928
Ōkubo Toshimichi
1830 – 1878
A. P. Hamann
1909 – 1977
Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d’Ohsson
1779 – 1851
Adolph Saphir
1831 – 1891
Adriana Krnacova
b. 1960
Aivars Lembergs
b. 1953
Alain Deneault
b. 1970
Albert Lynch
1860 – 1950
Alejandra Rodenas
b. 1963
Aleksei Gastev
1882 – 1939
Alexander Bulatovich
1870 – 1919
Alexander Sibiryakov
1849 – 1933
Alexandra Dobolyi
b. 1971
Alfred Gordon Gaydon
1911 – 2004
Alina Romanowski
b. 1955
Allan MacMaster
b. 1974
Alondra Cano
b. 1981
Anand Gandhi
b. 1980
Andrea Dworkin
1946 – 2005
Andreas Scheuer
b. 1974
… and 3,865 more
Died on September 26
Béla Bartók
1881 – 1945
Chetpat Aiyar
1879 – 1966
Conrad Hal Waddington
1905 – 1975
Denis Tillinac
1947 – 2020
Eduard Albert
1841 – 1900
Eugeni d'Ors
1881 – 1954
Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame
1844 – 1919
Franz Böhm
1895 – 1977
Geoffrey Wilkinson
1921 – 1996
Hermann Grassmann
1809 – 1877
Jaakko Forsman
1839 – 1899
Jakob Gadolin
1719 – 1802
John W. Garrett
1820 – 1884
Josep Maria Millàs i Vallicrosa
1897 – 1970
Leopold Ružička
1887 – 1976
Lothar Collatz
1910 – 1990
Manne Siegbahn
1886 – 1978
Pál Turán
1910 – 1976
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
1760 – 1842
Tatsuo Nishida
1928 – 2012
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
1926 – 2022
Albrecht Dold
1928 – 2011
Aleksandr Kuzmin
1951 – 2019
Alexander Gordon Laing
1793 – 1826
Alf Torp
1853 – 1916
Ana Seneviratne
1927 – 2015
Anton Dohrn
1840 – 1909
Araxie Saryan
1937 – 2013
August Ferdinand Möbius
1790 – 1868
Auguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire
1866 – 1954
Augustus Keppel Stephenson
1827 – 1904
Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin
1902 – 1968
Bram Rutgers
1884 – 1966
Casper Ehrenborg
1788 – 1823
Charles Erwin Wilson
1890 – 1961
Charles Landon Knight
1867 – 1933
Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer
1857 – 1922
Elina Haavio-Mannila
1933 – 2025
Eugene Commins
1932 – 2015
Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis
1864 – 1935
Frances Farenthold
1926 – 2021
Francesco Zabarella
1360 – 1417
Francis L. Hawks
1798 – 1866
Frederick R. Goff
1916 – 1982
George VI of Armenia
1868 – 1954
Gerhard Behrendt
1929 – 2006
Hildred Carlile
1852 – 1942
Hristo Silyanov
1880 – 1939
Hugo Vogel
1855 – 1934
Iva Toguri D'Aquino
1916 – 2006
James Winthrop
1752 – 1821
Jean Thienpont
1774 – 1863
John Barrow
1952 – 2020
José Luís de Sousa Botelho Mourão e Vasconcelos
1785 – 1855
José Solchaga
1881 – 1953
Juan de Solórzano Pereira
1575 – 1655
Jurij Vega
1754 – 1802
Kaj Franck
1911 – 1989
Karl Ewald Hasse
1810 – 1902
Karl Patterson Schmidt
1890 – 1957
Kazimierz Nitsch
1874 – 1958
Kirill Razlogov
1946 – 2021
Květa Fialová
1929 – 2017
Kåre Tønnesson
1926 – 2019
Lafcadio Hearn
1850 – 1904
Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev
1873 – 1922
Levi Strauss
1829 – 1902
Massimo Mila
1910 – 1988
Menzies Campbell
1941 – 2025
Michel Pinçon
1942 – 2022
Mikhail Koshkin
1898 – 1940
Percy Girouard
1867 – 1932
Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
1764 – 1839
Richard Geoffrey Gerard
1904 – 1997
Robert Blinc
1933 – 2011
Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz
1805 – 1873
Sam C. Sarkesian
1927 – 2011
Sam Steiger
1929 – 2012
Serhii Kondratevskyi
1965 – 2023
Sir Charles Gregory Wade
1863 – 1922
Sos Sargsyan
1929 – 2013
Stanisław Szymecki
1924 – 2023
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
1779 – 1854
Thorvald N. Thiele
1838 – 1910
Ulla Puolanne
1931 – 2015
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
1854 – 1924
William Le Roy Emmet
1859 – 1941
Wouter Gortzak
1931 – 2014
Zerach Warhaftig
1906 – 2002
Aarne Ervi
1910 – 1977
Abraham Stupp
1897 – 1968
Alberto Moravia
1907 – 1990
Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
1877 – 1945
Alfred Naqqache
1888 – 1978
Allyn Cox
1896 – 1982
Amias Paulet
1532 – 1588
Amory Holbrook
1820 – 1866
Andrei Vostrikov
1902 – 1937
Andrew O. Skaar
1922 – 2018
Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton
1863 – 1915
Anna Magnani
1908 – 1973
Antônio Jacó da Paixão
1842 – 1912
Arjun Kumar Sengupta
1937 – 2010
Arnold Short
1932 – 2014
Arthur Hunnicutt
1910 – 1979
Aubrey Herbert
1880 – 1923
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
1677 – 1764
Billy Vaughn
1919 – 1991
Bob Cassilly
1949 – 2011
Bradford R. Wood
1800 – 1889
Breckinridge Long
1881 – 1958
Brooks Robinson
1937 – 2023
Bulbul
1897 – 1961
Carl Bonnevie
1881 – 1972
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
1793 – 1866
Carne Rasch
1847 – 1914
Charles Robert Connell
1864 – 1922
Chen Chien-jen
1939 – 2025
Chris Appel
1940 – 2024
Clark J. Adams
1904 – 1981
Cristien Polak
1954 – 2022
Dade Moeller
1927 – 2011
Daniel Brock
1937 – 2020
Daniel Johnson
1915 – 1968
David B. Gracy II
1941 – 2020
Dominador Aytona
1918 – 2017
Eduard Pantserzhanskiy
1887 – 1937
Edwin B. Hooper
1909 – 1986
Einar Førde
1943 – 2004
Elisabeth Kalko
1962 – 2011
Eliécer Cárdenas
1950 – 2021
Ellen Evans
1891 – 1953
Ellis Evans
1930 – 2013
Emil Baehrens
1848 – 1888
Emil Wikström
1864 – 1942
Emilia Fogelklou
1878 – 1972
Eric Harrison
1892 – 1974
Erik Bartnes
1939 – 2020
Ernie Lombardi
1908 – 1977
Ethel Catherwood
1908 – 1987
Eugene A. Obregon
1930 – 1950
Evelyn G. Lowery
1925 – 2013
Francisco de Borja y Aragón
1581 – 1658
Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha
1910 – 1962
Frank Parsons
1854 – 1908
Freda Irving
1903 – 1984
Frederick Vaughan Abbott
1858 – 1928
Frederick William Faber
1814 – 1863
Fráňa Zemínová
1882 – 1962
Georg Simmel
1858 – 1918
George A. Buckstaff
1861 – 1927
George H. Browne
1818 – 1885
George Henry Ross
1878 – 1956
George Santayana
1863 – 1952
Georges Journois
1896 – 1944
Georgy Kert
1923 – 2009
Giuseppe Lombrassa
1906 – 1966
Gloria Stuart
1910 – 2010
Guillaume Massieu
1665 – 1722
H. Montagu Allan
1860 – 1951
Hans Christian Petersen
1793 – 1862
Heinrich Kohl
1877 – 1914
Helen Turner Watson
1917 – 1992
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
1920 – 1989
Herschell Gordon Lewis
1929 – 2016
Hisashi Kimura
1870 – 1943
Howard W. Robison
1915 – 1987
Hugh Lofting
1886 – 1947
Humbert Roque Versace
1937 – 1965
Hyppolite Dumoulin
1927 – 2016
Hıfzı Topuz
1923 – 2023
Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
1897 – 1960
Ignaz Kirchner
1946 – 2018
Inagaki Manjirō
1861 – 1908
Irwin Steingut
1891 – 1952
Isaac P. Witter
1873 – 1942
Isher Judge Ahluwalia
1945 – 2020
Jacob B. Agus
1911 – 1986
Jaime Larraín García-Moreno
1896 – 1975
Jaison Barreto
1933 – 2021
James Craig
1924 – 2017
James Ferguson
1797 – 1867
James W. Gidley
1866 – 1931
Jan Mazur
1920 – 2008
Jaume Carner i Romeu
1867 – 1934
Jean Dampt
1854 – 1945
Jessie Ball duPont
1884 – 1970
Jim McNeely
1949 – 2025
Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas
1822 – 1897
Joe Wolf
1964 – 2024
John Albert Tiffin Hull
1841 – 1928
John Byrom
1692 – 1763
John III of Schönberg
1500 – 1517
John Mason
1773 – 1839
John Reber
1858 – 1931
John Sanford
1851 – 1939
John Thomas Kennedy
1885 – 1969
John Willett Willett
1745 – 1815
John Young Bown
1821 – 1890
José Atarés
1960 – 2013
… and 1,608 more