On This Day — December 26
3533 noted people were born and 2071 died on December 26 in our archive, including Charles Babbage, Emil Wiechert and Iosif Sifakis.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 26
Charles Babbage
1791 – 1871
Emil Wiechert
1861 – 1928
Iosif Sifakis
b. 1946
Jakub Berman
1901 – 1984
Adrian Newey
b. 1958
Ali Javan
1926 – 2016
Antoni Zygmund
1900 – 1992
August Michaelis
1847 – 1916
Bernard Germain de Lacépède
1756 – 1825
Carol Black
b. 1939
Carolyn S. Gordon
b. 1950
Charles Abbott, 3rd Baron Tenterden
1834 – 1882
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory
1899 – 1981
Eduard Kukan
1939 – 2022
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
b. 1943
Ernst Moritz Arndt
1769 – 1860
Ezio Rizzardo
b. 1943
Friedrich Engel
1861 – 1941
Georgi Nadjakov
1896 – 1981
Jacques Lesourne
1928 – 2020
Jan Dembowski
1889 – 1963
John Horton Conway
1937 – 2020
José Ramos-Horta
b. 1949
Julio de Vido
b. 1949
Mao Zedong
1893 – 1976
Martin Cooper
b. 1928
Michael Gelfand
1912 – 1985
Nicolas Charbonneau
b. 1969
Nina Ostanina
b. 1955
Norman Angell
1872 – 1967
Paul Baratte
1860 – 1928
Peter van de Kamp
1901 – 1995
Richard Bruck
1914 – 1991
Richard Levis McCormick
b. 1947
Roald Sagdeev
b. 1932
Sarah Springman
b. 1956
Szczepan Szczeniowski
1898 – 1979
Thomas Krens
b. 1946
Vadim Gustov
b. 1948
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
1853 – 1940
William Noel Benson
1885 – 1957
Albert Gore Sr.
1907 – 1998
Alberto Bonisoli
b. 1961
Alejo Carpanter
1904 – 1980
Alexander Ankvab
b. 1952
Alexander Davydov
1912 – 1993
Alexander Karpinsky
1846 – 1936
Andrew Wilson
b. 1950
Arup Raha
b. 1954
Barbara Barrett
b. 1950
Bella Kurkova
1935 – 2023
Beppe Severgnini
b. 1956
Bernard Victor Aloysius Röling
1906 – 1985
Bettina Hagedorn
b. 1955
Bill Ayers
b. 1944
Calvert Magruder
1893 – 1968
Charles Combes
1801 – 1872
Cheryl L. Shavers
b. 1953
Christine Siddoway
b. 1961
Clara Southmayd Ludlow
1852 – 1924
Clemens Winkler
1838 – 1904
Cornelia Marvin Pierce
1873 – 1957
Cristian David
b. 1967
Cristòfol Soler
b. 1956
David Miller
b. 1958
Denis Gusev
b. 1976
Edward C. Prescott
1940 – 2022
Edward Timpson
b. 1973
Edwin Seroussi
b. 1952
Elena Sánchez Caballero
b. 1957
Elliott H. Levitas
1930 – 2022
Eri Jabotinsky
1910 – 1969
Etienne Constantin de Gerlache
1785 – 1871
Evan Bayh
b. 1955
Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill
1779 – 1845
Francisco Cambournac
1903 – 1994
Frank Debenham
1883 – 1965
Fyodor Fedorovsky
1883 – 1955
Félix Éboué
1884 – 1944
Galina Ulanova
1909 – 1998
Galsan Tschinag
b. 1944
Gilbert Meyer
1941 – 2020
Gray Davis
b. 1942
Grigory Marchenko
b. 1959
Gérard Bouchard
b. 1943
Halyna Hnatyuk
1927 – 2016
Hans Gross
1847 – 1915
Hasmik Harutyunyan
b. 1960
Heinz Reinefarth
1903 – 1979
Hermann Blumenau
1819 – 1899
Inokichi Kubo
1874 – 1939
James T. Conway
b. 1947
Jasmine Clark
b. 1982
Jean-Marc Aveline
b. 1958
Jeff Bezanson
b. 1981
Jioji Konrote
b. 1947
John M. Walker, Jr.
b. 1940
John Reed
1864 – 1955
Jose de Venecia
1936 – 2026
Joseph Albert Booker
1859 – 1926
Joseph Dubuc
1840 – 1914
José Ramón Cossío
b. 1960
José Rodrigo Rodrigo
1928 – 2016
José Yves Limantour
1854 – 1935
János Aczél
1924 – 2020
Kay Griffel
b. 1940
Keith Martin Ball
b. 1960
Kirill Stremousov
1976 – 2022
Klaus Törnudd
1931 – 2026
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos
1890 – 1973
Koya Nishikawa
b. 1942
Lancelot Carnegie
1861 – 1933
Lars Ulrich
b. 1963
Laurie Green
b. 1945
Lawrence William Cramer
1897 – 1978
Leonel Fernández
b. 1953
Liz Lochhead
b. 1947
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
1777 – 1848
Ludmiła Marjańska
1923 – 2005
Ludolf von Krehl
1861 – 1937
Lynn Morley Martin
b. 1939
Melchior Treub
1851 – 1910
Mohd Asghar Khan Goriman Khan
b. 1965
Mordechai Bar-On
1928 – 2021
Moshe Zakai
1926 – 2015
Nasrine Seraji
b. 1957
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
b. 1978
Noel Lloyd
1946 – 2019
Ole Furu
1841 – 1925
Olga Sedakova
b. 1949
Prakash Amte
b. 1948
Rainer Offergeld
b. 1937
Ran Raz
b. 1966
Regine Günther
b. 1962
Renato Guttuso
1911 – 1987
Richard Swinburne
b. 1934
Robert Klapisch
1932 – 2020
Rodolphe Dareste de La Chavanne
1824 – 1911
Rubens Paiva
1929 – 1971
Rüdiger Proske
1916 – 2010
Saiyid Nurul Hasan
1921 – 1993
Samu Hazai
1851 – 1942
Samuel H. Young
1922 – 2017
Seiji Naruse
1893 – 1960
Sen Katayama
1859 – 1933
Solomon H. Snyder
b. 1938
Stanley W. Merrell
1876 – 1921
Stephan Gerlach
1546 – 1612
Steve Allen
1921 – 2000
Takio Izawa
1869 – 1949
Thomas Gray
1716 – 1771
Thomas Lewis
1881 – 1945
Thomas Minder
b. 1960
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
b. 1953
Torolf Prytz
1858 – 1938
Vasily Malyshkin
1896 – 1946
Vinicio Cerezo
b. 1942
Wilferd Madelung
1930 – 2023
Wilhelm Xylander
1532 – 1576
William Boyd Dawkins
1837 – 1929
Witold Nazarewicz
b. 1954
Xue Yue
1896 – 1998
Yekaterina Savinova
1926 – 1970
Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya
1964 – 2025
Yrjö Ruutu
1887 – 1956
Yuefan Deng
b. 1962
Zlatko Lagumdžija
b. 1955
Étienne Clavier
1762 – 1817
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
1827 – 1895
Abel Davis
1874 – 1937
Abid Hussain
1926 – 2012
Abubakar Atiku Bagudu
b. 1961
Adriana Maraž
1931 – 2015
Ahsanullah
1874 – 1965
Alain Mamou-Mani
b. 1949
Alamuddin Dimyati Rois
1980 – 2025
Alan Wilkie
b. 1947
Albert Bosch i Fustegueras
1848 – 1900
Albert Hansen
1847 – 1925
Aleksandr Verzhbilovich
1849 – 1911
Alex Blankson
b. 1980
Alexandra Phillips
b. 1983
Alexandra Rapaport
b. 1971
Alfred Aspinall Tobin
1855 – 1939
Alfred Herrmann
1879 – 1960
Alfredo Piwonka
1887 – 1942
Alicia Terada
b. 1956
Amy Walen
b. 1967
Andre-Michel Schub
b. 1952
Andrew Graham-Dixon
b. 1960
André Lajoinie
1929 – 2024
Angela Angel
b. 1979
Ante Ivas
b. 1939
Antonio Molina
1894 – 1980
Ari Puheloinen
b. 1951
Arnold Mendelssohn
1855 – 1933
Arsenio S. Lacson
1911 – 1962
Arthur Cowell-Stepney
1834 – 1909
Arthur Percival
1887 – 1966
Arthur W. Murray
1918 – 2011
… and 3,333 more
Died on December 26
Cahit Arf
1910 – 1997
Antoine Rivard
1898 – 1985
Barbara Harrisson
1922 – 2015
Dennis Brutus
1924 – 2009
Desmond Tutu
1931 – 2021
Edward O. Wilson
1929 – 2021
Emil du Bois-Reymond
1818 – 1896
Erich Topp
1914 – 2005
Frank Dawson Adams
1859 – 1942
Galina Volchek
1933 – 2019
George Rochester
1908 – 2001
Gerald Ford
1913 – 2006
Gregorio Salvador
1927 – 2020
Hans Stille
1876 – 1966
Helmut Hasse
1898 – 1979
Henry Eyring
1901 – 1981
J. Paul Austin
1915 – 1985
Josef Lukl Hromádka
1889 – 1969
Jörgen Lehmann
1898 – 1989
Karl Schiller
1911 – 1994
Kenneth Pitzer
1914 – 1997
Lawrence Roberts
1937 – 2018
Luis Eduardo Valcárcel
1891 – 1987
Manmohan Singh
1932 – 2024
Martin David Kruskal
1925 – 2006
Melvil Dewey
1851 – 1931
Michael Bruno
1932 – 1996
Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
1817 – 1888
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
1927 – 2018
Petr Hájek
1940 – 2016
Richard Livingstone
1880 – 1960
Roy J. Glauber
1925 – 2018
Sarah Weddington
1945 – 2021
Shahnon Ahmad
1933 – 2017
Stanisław Barańczak
1946 – 2014
Abu-'l-Qāsim H̱ān Nāṣir-al-Mulk
1863 – 1927
Albert Ghiorso
1915 – 2010
Amelius Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne
1847 – 1928
Anatoly Lunacharsky
1875 – 1933
Andrew Thomson
1936 – 2014
Angus Ogilvy
1928 – 2004
Arthur Rhodes
1859 – 1922
Barbara Tarbuck
1942 – 2016
Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter
1725 – 1793
Charles Girault
1851 – 1932
Charles Hillman Brough
1876 – 1935
Cosimo Izzo
1943 – 2022
Dian Fossey
1932 – 1985
Dimitris Glinos
1882 – 1943
Dorothy Bliss
1916 – 1987
Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies
1906 – 1992
Emma Johnston
1973 – 2025
Erik af Klint
1901 – 1981
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
1922 – 1942
François Châtelet
1925 – 1985
Frederick M. Davenport
1866 – 1956
Frederik Ludvig Bang
1747 – 1820
Gary Starkweather
1938 – 2019
George Blake
1922 – 2020
George Robert Carruthers
1939 – 2020
Georges Belmont
1909 – 2008
Georgy Bobrikov
1840 – 1924
Georgy Petrovich Egorychev
1938 – 2023
Gerry Anderson
1929 – 2012
Giuseppe Zanardelli
1826 – 1903
Harold Hotelling
1895 – 1973
Harry S. Truman
1884 – 1972
Hu Ning
1916 – 1997
Ilmari Salomies
1893 – 1973
Jack Benny
1894 – 1974
James Gadsden
1788 – 1858
James Rizzi
1950 – 2011
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
1797 – 1869
Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier
1653 – 1727
John B. Cobb
1925 – 2024
John Wilkes
1725 – 1797
Joop Klant
1915 – 1994
Joseph Hendrie
1925 – 2023
Jules Patenôtre des Noyers
1845 – 1925
Julius Anton Glaser
1831 – 1885
K. Shankar Pillai
1902 – 1989
Karolos Papoulias
1929 – 2021
Leo Tindemans
1922 – 2014
Leonid Beda
1920 – 1976
Lev Shcherba
1880 – 1944
Louis Charles Émile Lortet
1836 – 1909
Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin
1802 – 1896
Marcin Dunin
1774 – 1842
Martinus van Marum
1750 – 1837
Narcís Jubany Arnau
1913 – 1996
Nicolas Estgen
1930 – 2019
Nicolás Avellaneda
1837 – 1885
Nikolai Turczaninov
1796 – 1863
Noël Gallon
1891 – 1966
Odo Bujwid
1857 – 1942
Paul D. MacLean
1913 – 2007
Percy Sutton
1920 – 2009
Peter Schmidhuber
1931 – 2020
Philip Hart
1912 – 1976
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
1754 – 1838
Pyotr Melissino
1726 – 1797
Rita Schober
1918 – 2012
Roberto Delmastro
1945 – 2014
Secondo Pollo
1908 – 1941
Simon Marius
1573 – 1624
Tao Zhiyue
1892 – 1988
Tetsuro Watsuji
1889 – 1960
Theodor von Oppolzer
1841 – 1886
Tomokatsu Kitagawa
1951 – 2018
Vic Stelly
1941 – 2020
Václav Dobruský
1858 – 1916
Walter Horn
1908 – 1995
Wendy Beckett
1930 – 2018
Wilfred Kaplan
1915 – 2007
William Emerson
1843 – 1924
William L. Langer
1896 – 1977
William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley
1894 – 1969
Wolfgang Schäuble
1942 – 2023
Włodzimierz Tetmajer
1862 – 1923
Abby Lippman
1939 – 2017
Abraham B. Venable
1758 – 1811
Adelsteen Normann
1848 – 1918
Alexander Mocsáry
1841 – 1915
Alexander Monroe Dockery
1845 – 1926
Ali Saip Ursavaş
1885 – 1939
Allen I. Olson
1938 – 2025
Allie Reynolds
1917 – 1994
Alvah Crocker
1801 – 1874
Alvin F. Waller
1808 – 1875
Andrew Grima
1921 – 2007
Anna Orochko
1898 – 1965
Annette Baker Fox
1912 – 2011
Anscar Vonier
1875 – 1938
Antonio Caballero Fernández de Rodas
1816 – 1876
António Mega Ferreira
1949 – 2022
Archibald Smith
1813 – 1872
Astrid Noack
1888 – 1954
August Maramaa
1881 – 1941
Auguste-François Michaut
1786 – 1879
Bahram Beyzai
1938 – 2025
Bina Das
1911 – 1986
Bronisława Kowalska
1955 – 2020
Carlos Antonio Anderson Ramírez
1960 – 2025
Charles Hall
1875 – 1945
Charles Noble
1797 – 1874
Charles Risk
1897 – 1943
Chudomir (Dimitar Chorbadzhiyski)
1890 – 1967
Clifton McNeely
1919 – 2003
Cornelius Castoriadis
1922 – 1997
Curtis Mayfield
1942 – 1999
Desiré Dubounet
1951 – 2025
Devendra Prasad Gupta
1933 – 2017
Djalma Marinho
1908 – 1981
Dorothy Iannone
1933 – 2022
Doug Harvey
1924 – 1989
Douglas Howard
1897 – 1987
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
1762 – 1847
Edmond Proulx
1875 – 1956
Eduard Vilde
1865 – 1933
Edward "Porky" Cragg
1919 – 1943
Edwin Jackson Kyle
1876 – 1963
Egidius Junger
1833 – 1895
Elli Saurio
1899 – 1966
Emmett O'Donnell Jr.
1906 – 1971
Eugen Goldstein
1850 – 1930
Francisco de Orozco
1605 – 1668
Fred McLafferty
1923 – 2021
Frederic Remington
1861 – 1909
Frederic Storck
1872 – 1942
Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton
1890 – 1974
Gale Bishop
1922 – 2003
George Elliott Hagan
1916 – 1990
George K. Favrot
1868 – 1934
Gerson Camata
1941 – 2018
Giacomo Di Chirico
1844 – 1883
Gilbert Naccache
1939 – 2020
Giovanni Francesco Commendone
1524 – 1584
Giuseppe Gamba
1857 – 1929
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
1886 – 1960
Gorgeous George
1915 – 1963
Gösta von Hennigs
1866 – 1941
Hance James Logan
1869 – 1944
Hannis Taylor
1851 – 1922
Harper Davis
1925 – 2020
Harry Turpin
1902 – 1974
Heinrich Schliemann
1822 – 1890
Henri Niessel
1866 – 1955
Henri, Prince of Condé
1588 – 1646
Henry Eliot Howard
1873 – 1940
Henry Mills Fuller
1820 – 1860
Henry Richter
1838 – 1916
Herman Nickerson Jr.
1913 – 2000
Hermann von Ramberg
1820 – 1899
Hjalmar Mehr
1910 – 1979
Horace B. Smith
1826 – 1888
Howard Hawks
1896 – 1977
Ian Samuel
1915 – 2010
Issam Makhoul
1952 – 2025
Ivar Formo
1951 – 2006
J. Edward Guinan
1936 – 2014
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