October 26
October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1427 - Sigismund of Austria, regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria
- 1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian, writer, domnitor (d. 1723)
- 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
- 1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
- 1854 - C. W. Post, Anerican entrepreneur (d. 1914)
- 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
- 1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
- 1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
- 1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
- 1902 - Jack Sharkey, boxer (d. 1994)
- 1906 - Primo Carnera, boxer (d. 1967)
- 1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2003)
- 1911 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
- 1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
- 1912 - Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
- 1914 - Jackie Coogan, actor (d. 1984)
- 1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
- 1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor
- 1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer
- 1946 - Pat Sajak, game show host
- 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and Senator from New York
- 1947 - Jaclyn Smith, actress
- 1947 - Holly Woodlawn, actor
- 1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
- 1952 - Andrew Motion, poet
- 1953 - Keith Strickland, drummer (The B-52's)
- 1954 - D.W. Moffett, actor
- 1957 - Bob Golic, American football player
- 1958 - Rita Wilson, actress
- 1961 - Dylan McDermott, actor
- 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
- 1963 - Natalie Merchant, singer
- 1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer and actor
- 1967 - Keith Urban, country singer
- 1971 - Anthony Rapp, singer and actor
- 1973 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator
Deaths
- 899 - Alfred the Great
- 1440 - Gilles de Rais, serial killer
- 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter
- 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada
- 1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer
- 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragette
- 1909 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea (assassinated)
- 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball owner
- 1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b.1867)
- 1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, dies in combat (b. 1904)
- 1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great
- 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer
- 1956 - Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
- 1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer
- 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer
- 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea
- 1986 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter
- 1991 - Bill Graham, rock and roll entrepreneur
- 1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
- 1999 - Hoyt Axton, musician
- 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general
Holidays
External links
October 25 - October 27 - November 26 - September 26 - more historical anniversaries
See also: October 26, 1427, 1440, 1640, 1673
