Born on Friday, 26th September – Famous Birthdays

26/09/2003

Jane Remover, American musician

Jane Remover is an American rapper, producer, and singer-songwriter. They made their debut with Teen Week in 2021, a progressive pop and digicore EP with themes of adolescence. The same year, they released their debut studio album, Frailty, a coming of age album following the similar themes of Teen Week, but encompassing a wide range of genres. After coming out as transgender, they released their second studio album, Census Designated, in 2023, a shoegaze and post-rock concept album inspired by a "near-death experience" on a road trip. In 2025, they released their third studio album, Revengeseekerz, with influence from digicore and EDM.

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26/09/2001

Xinyu Wang, Chinese tennis player

Wang Xinyu is a Chinese professional tennis player. Wang reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 30 on 23 February 2026, and set a doubles ranking of No. 16 on 20 May 2024. Partnering with Hsieh Su-wei, she won the women's doubles title at the 2023 French Open. She also won a silver medal in mixed doubles, alongside Zhang Zhizhen at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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26/09/2000

Frankie Amaya, American soccer player

Franuel "Frankie" Amaya is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal, on loan from Liga MX club Toluca.

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Princess Salma bint Abdullah, Jordanian princess

Princess Salma bint Abdullah is the second daughter and third child of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan.

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26/09/1995

Miloš Veljković, Serbian footballer

Miloš Veljković is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Red Star Belgrade. Born in Switzerland, he represents Serbia national team.

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26/09/1994

Jack Conger, American swimmer

John Peet Conger is a retired American competition swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle events. He is an Olympic gold medalist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the current American record-holder in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:37.35.

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26/09/1993

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player

Michael Anthony Edward Kidd-Gilchrist Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Kidd-Gilchrist was drafted second overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2012 NBA draft. He played for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 2011 to 2012.

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26/09/1992

Yoo Ara, South Korean singer and actress

Yoo Ara is a South Korean singer and actress, known for her work as a former member of the South Korean girl group Hello Venus.

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26/09/1991

Alma Jodorowsky, French actress, fashion model and singer

Alma Jodorowsky is a French actress, singer, and fashion model.

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Dan Preston, English footballer

Daniel Sean Preston is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Northern Premier League Division One Midlands club Bedworth United.

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26/09/1989

Jonny Bairstow, English cricketer

Jonathan Marc Bairstow is an English cricketer who played internationally for England in all formats as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batter. He represents Yorkshire in domestic cricket and Welsh Fire in The Hundred. Bairstow was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

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26/09/1988

Chris Archer, American baseball player

Christopher Alan Archer is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates and Minnesota Twins.

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James Blake, English singer-songwriter and producer

James Blake Litherland is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his emotive, soulful light head voice and use of falsetto, he first gained recognition following the release of three extended plays—The Bells Sketch, CMYK and Klavierwerke—in 2010. He signed with A&M Records to release his self-titled debut album (2011) the following year, which was met with critical praise and peaked within the top ten of the UK Albums Chart.

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Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater

Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi is a Finnish figure skater. She is a three-time European medalist, the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard champion, the 2012 Rostelecom Cup champion, a two-time Cup of China medalist, and a five-time Finnish national champion. She retired from competitive skating in August 2015.

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Buddy Matthews, Australian wrestler

Matthew Adams is an Australian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Buddy Matthews. He is a former one-time AEW World Trios Champion. Adams also makes appearances on the independent circuit and is best known for his time with WWE where he performed under the ring name Buddy Murphy.

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26/09/1987

Rosanna Munter, Swedish singer-songwriter

Rosanna Bella Victoria Eriksdotter Munter is an actress and recording artist from Sweden. She is best known as a member of the Swedish girl group Play, and she was in a collaborative project with White Lies bassist Charles Cave titled K.I.D.S.

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26/09/1986

Sean Doolittle, American baseball player

Sean Robert Doolittle is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, Nationals, Cincinnati Reds, and Seattle Mariners.

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26/09/1985

Talulah Riley, English actress

Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn is an English actress. She has appeared in films, including Pride & Prejudice (2005), St Trinian's (2007) and its sequel St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and Inception (2010). She has also appeared on the HBO science fiction western series Westworld (2016–2018) and the FX biographical miniseries Pistol (2022).

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26/09/1984

Nev Schulman, American photographer, television host, and producer

Yaniv "Nev" Schulman is an American TV host and producer. He is best known for the 2010 documentary film Catfish and the follow-up TV series Catfish: The TV Show on MTV of which he is the host and executive producer.

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26/09/1983

Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer

Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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26/09/1982

Rob Burrow, English rugby player (died 2024)

Robert Geoffrey Burrow was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a scrum-half or hooker. Burrow spent his entire professional career with the Leeds Rhinos, making nearly 500 appearances as well as representing Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire.

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John Scott, Canadian ice hockey player

John Howard Scott is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and winger. A professional player for nearly 10 seasons, Scott saw National Hockey League (NHL) action with the Minnesota Wild, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens. Scott was born in Edmonton, Alberta, but grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario. He graduated from Michigan Technological University in 2006.

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Sun Li, Chinese actress

Sun Li, also known as Susan Sun, is a Chinese actress, best known for TV dramas such as Goddess of Mercy (2003), Happiness as Flowers (2005), Shanghai Bund (2007), Empresses in the Palace (2011), The Legend of Mi Yue (2015), and Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017). Her films include Painted Skin (2008), The Breakup Guru (2014), Devil and Angel (2015), and Shadow (2018). In 2018, she became the youngest actress to achieve China's television "Grand Slam", having won Best Actress at the country's three major TV awards: Flying Apsaras Awards, Golden Eagle Awards, and Magnolia Awards.

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26/09/1981

Asuka, Japanese professional wrestler

Kanako Urai is a Japanese professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since August 2015, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Asuka and is one-half of The Kabuki Warriors with Kairi Sane. Urai is often regarded as one of the greatest women's professional wrestlers of all time.

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Yao Beina, Chinese singer (died 2015)

Yao Beina, also known as Bella Yao, was a Chinese singer and songwriter. She debuted as a professional singer with her portrayal of the diva of the musical Jin Sha (金沙) in 2005. After graduating from China Conservatory of Music in the same year, she started her singing career in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Political Department of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

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Christina Milian, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Christina Milian is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Following a number of minor television and film roles in the late 1990s, Milian made her recording debut on American rapper Ja Rule's 2000 single "Between Me and You", which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Ayumi Tsunematsu, Japanese voice actress

Ayumi Tsunematsu is a Japanese voice actress.

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Serena Williams, American tennis player

Serena Jameka Williams is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. Williams won 73 WTA Tour–level singles titles, including 23 major women's singles titles—the most in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time. She is the only player to accomplish a career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.

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26/09/1980

Patrick Friesacher, Austrian racing driver

Patrick Friesacher is an Austrian racing driver. He is the longest-serving Red Bull driver, and also drove for the Minardi Formula One team during the first half of the 2005 season.

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Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player

Richard Brooks Orpik is an American former professional ice hockey player. A defenseman, he played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). A stay-at-home defenseman and locker room leader, Orpik is a two-time Stanley Cup champion, winning with the Penguins in 2009 and with the Capitals in 2018.

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Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player

Daniel Hans Sedin is a Swedish ice hockey executive and former winger who played his entire 17-season National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Vancouver Canucks from 2000 to 2018. Born and raised in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, Sedin and his identical twin brother Henrik played together throughout their careers; the pair were renowned for their effectiveness as a tandem. During his career, Daniel was known as a goal-scorer, while Henrik was known as a playmaker. Sedin tallied 393 goals and 648 assists in 1,306 games played in the NHL, ranking him as the Canucks' second-highest points scorer all time, behind only his brother Henrik.

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Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player

Henrik Lars Sedin is a Swedish ice hockey executive and former centre who played his entire 17-season National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Vancouver Canucks from 2000 to 2018. He additionally served as the Canucks' captain from 2010 until his retirement. Born and raised in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, Sedin and his identical twin brother Daniel played together throughout their careers; the pair were renowned for their effectiveness as a tandem. Henrik, a skilled passer, was known as a playmaker while Daniel was known as a goal-scorer. Sedin tallied 240 goals and 830 assists, for 1,070 points, in 1,330 NHL games, ranking him as the Canucks' all-time leading points scorer.

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26/09/1979

Chris Kunitz, Canadian ice hockey player

Christopher Kunitz is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Anaheim Ducks, Atlanta Thrashers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning and Chicago Blackhawks.

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Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese wrestler

Naomichi Marufuji is a Japanese professional wrestler, wrestling executive, and restaurateur. He is signed to Pro Wrestling Noah, and is the vice-president of CyberFight, the parent company of Noah. Known as the Genius of the Ark , Marufuji is a four-time GHC Heavyweight Champion, as well as the first of two men to win Junior Heavyweight Championships in all three major Japanese promotions. Marufuji is widely referred to as one of the most influential professional wrestlers of the modern era, inspiring many international and national wrestlers such as Seth Rollins, Will Ospreay, Kenny Omega, and others; his notes as an influential wrestler have garnered him the nickname "The Mastermind Behind Modern Wrestling".

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Fuifui Moimoi, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player

Fuifui Moana Moimoi is a rugby league footballer who plays as a prop.

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Cameron Mooney, Australian footballer

Cameron Mooney is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Geelong Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). A forward, standing at 197 cm Mooney is renowned for his passion along with his poor tribunal history where he holds the record for the most suspensions in a single season by a VFL/AFL player.

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Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast

Jaycie Lynn Phelps is an American retired Olympic gymnast and member of the 1996 Olympic gold medal U.S. women's gymnastics team, the Magnificent Seven. She is known for her consistency and clean lines in her gymnastics.

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Taavi Rõivas, Estonian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Estonia

Taavi Rõivas is an Estonian politician, former Prime Minister of Estonia from 2014 to 2016 and former leader of the Reform Party. Before his term as the Prime Minister, Rõivas was the Minister of Social Affairs from 2012 to 2014. On 9 November 2016 his second cabinet dissolved after coalition partners, Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica and Social Democratic Party, sided with the opposition in a no confidence motion. At the end of 2020, Rõivas announced quitting politics, and resigned from his parliament seat.

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Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter

Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television. He is the co-creator, co-writer, director, and executive producer of the Canadian sitcom Letterkenny (2016–2023), the executive producer and director of the first two seasons of its spinoff series, Shoresy (2022–2023), and the creator, writer, director and executive producer of the sports romance series Heated Rivalry (2025–present).

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26/09/1978

Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner

Robert "Mwafrika" Kipkoech Cheruiyot, sometimes known as Omar Ahmed, is a Kenyan marathon runner and is the former record holder and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.

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26/09/1977

Kerem Özyeğen, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Mor ve Ötesi is a Turkish alternative rock band from Istanbul. Its four current members are Harun Tekin, Kerem Kabadayı (drums), Burak Güven (bass) and Kerem Özyeğen. Former members include Alper Tekin and Derin Esmer. The band achieved mainstream success with the release of the album Dünya Yalan Söylüyor. In 2008, the band represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade with the song "Deli" (Lunatic).

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Aka Plu, Japanese comedian and actor

Yuko Matsuoka , better known as Aka Plu , is a Japanese comedian who is represented by the talent agency, Ohta Production. Her old stage name was Akai Plutonium . Her husband is Shingo Matsuoka which they were a comedy duo called Aka Plu to Danna.

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26/09/1976

Michael Ballack, German footballer

Michael Ballack is a German former professional footballer who is now a football agent. He was selected by Pelé as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Living Players, and as the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002. He won the German Footballer of the Year award three times – in 2002, 2003 and 2005. Ballack was known for his passing range, powerful shot, physical strength and commanding presence in midfield.

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Sami Vänskä, Finnish bass player

Sami Vänskä is the former bassist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

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26/09/1975

Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer and violinist

Emma Härdelin is a Swedish musician. She is a violinist and lead singer in folk-rock band Garmarna, which she joined in 1993 for their first album, and also lead singer for the folk band Triakel.

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Jake Paltrow, American director and screenwriter

Jake Paltrow is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Coming from a family of actors, he is the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow and the son of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.

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Chiara Schoras, German actress

Chiara Schoras is a German actress.

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26/09/1974

Boris Cepeda, German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat

Boris Cepeda is a German-Ecuadorian Pianist and Diplomat.

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Gary Hall Jr., American swimmer

Gary Wayne Hall Jr. is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals. He is a former world record-holder in two relay events. Hall is well known for his "pro-wrestling-like" antics before a competition, frequently strutting onto the pool deck in boxing shorts and robe, shadow boxing and flexing for the audience.

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Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player and coach

Martin Müürsepp is an Estonian professional basketball coach and former player, who is the head coach of Haljala NGU of the I liiga. Widely regarded as one of Estonia's greatest basketball players of all time, he is the first Estonian to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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26/09/1973

Marty Casey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Martin Xavier "Marty" Casey is an American rock musician who is the lead singer, primary songwriter and second guitarist of Lovehammers. After years of building a strong local following in Chicago and the Midwest, Casey achieved international fame on the first season of the reality show Rock Star: INXS. Casey made it to the final two of the competition, finishing as the runner-up to winner J.D. Fortune. Although he was not chosen as the new singer for INXS, he was invited to tour as opening act. In 2006, Marty Casey and the Lovehammers opened on the first leg of the INXS Switched On Tour. Marty was a fan favorite on Rock Star: INXS, receiving the most viewer votes, and topping the download charts with his performances of both covers and original material.

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Julienne Davis, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Julienne Davis is an American actress, singer, and model.

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Dr. Luke, American record producer and songwriter

Łukasz Sebastian Gottwald, known professionally as Dr. Luke, Tyson Trax, and Made in China, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He began his professional music career as the Saturday Night Live Band's lead guitarist in 1996. In 2004 he produced Kelly Clarkson's single "Since U Been Gone" with Swedish record producer Max Martin, and later collaborated with Canadian producer Cirkut and fellow American Benny Blanco.

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Chris Small, Scottish snooker player and coach

Christopher Small is a retired Scottish professional snooker player and now a qualified snooker coach. His playing career was ended by the spinal condition ankylosing spondylitis.

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Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper

Olga Vasdeki is a Greek triple jumper.

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26/09/1972

Ras Kass, American rapper and producer

John R. Austin II, better known by his stage name Ras Kass, is an American rapper. He is a member of the hip hop supergroup The Hrsmn, along with Canibus, Killah Priest, and Kurupt in 2014. He is also a member of the group Golden State Warriors with Xzibit and Saafir. About.com ranked him No. 30 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007), while Pitchfork Media called him "one of the best rappers of all time".

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Beto O'Rourke, American politician

Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2018, a candidate for the presidential nomination in 2020, and the party's nominee for the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election.

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Shawn Stockman, American singer

Shawn Patrick Stockman is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as a member of the vocal group Boyz II Men.

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26/09/1970

Daryl Beattie, Australian motorcycle racer

Daryl Glen Beattie is a former Grand Prix solo motorcycle road racer.

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Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress and fashion designer

Sheri Moon Zombie is an American actress, model, dancer, and fashion designer.

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David Parland, Swedish guitarist (died 2013)

David Vincent Parland, also known by his stage name Blackmoon, was a Swedish metal guitarist noted for his work the bands Dark Funeral, Necrophobic and Infernal, all of which he co-founded.

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26/09/1969

Andy Petterson, Australian footballer and coach

Andrew Keith Petterson is an Australian former soccer player and coach who is a goalkeeping coach for East Bengal.

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David Slade, English director and producer

David Aldrin Slade is an English film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.

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Holger Stanislawski, German footballer and manager

Holger Stanislawski is a German football manager and former player.

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Paul Warhurst, English footballer and manager

Paul Warhurst is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender, midfielder or striker.

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26/09/1968

Jim Caviezel, American actor

James Patrick Caviezel Jr. is an American actor. He played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ (2004), Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom (2023), and starred as John Reese on the CBS series Person of Interest (2011–2016). He also played Slov in G.I. Jane (1997), Private Witt in The Thin Red Line (1998), Detective John Sullivan in Frequency (2000), Catch in Angel Eyes (2001), and Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).

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Ben Shenkman, American actor

Ben Shenkman is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.

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26/09/1967

Bruno Akrapović, Bosnian footballer and manager

Bruno Akrapović is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.

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Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)

Richard Shannon Hoon was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon from 1990 until his death in 1995.

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Craig Janney, American ice hockey player

Craig Harlan Janney is an American former professional ice hockey center who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1987–88 until 1998–99, when blood clots ended his career prematurely.

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26/09/1966

Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and sportscaster

Jillian Marie Barberie is a Canadian television hostess, sportscaster, radio personality and actress. From 1995 to 2012, she was a co-host on the Los Angeles television morning news and entertainment program Good Day L.A. on Fox owned-and-operated station KTTV. From 2000 to 2005, she appeared on Fox Sports as the weather host for Fox NFL Sunday. From 2006 to 2013, she was known as Jillian Reynolds, from her second marriage.

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Christos Dantis, Greek singer-songwriter and producer

Christos Dantis, is a Greek multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, lyricist, and record producer best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for co-writing the song "My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece.

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Shane Dye, New Zealand jockey

Raymond Shane Dye, is a former jockey. He was an apprentice jockey to Dave O’Sullivan at Matamata, before moving to Sydney, Australia where he was initially working with Vic Thompson at Warwick Farm in the late-1980s. In a distinguished riding career, Dye won the Melbourne Cup on Tawriffic in 1989 in then-record time, and won four consecutive Golden Slippers from 1989 to 1992. He also won the Cox Plate on Octagonal in 1995.

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Craig Heyward, American football player (died 2006)

Craig William Heyward, nicknamed "Ironhead", was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers. He then played for the New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Rams, and Indianapolis Colts in an 11-year NFL career.

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26/09/1965

Radisav Ćurčić, Serbian-Israeli basketball player

Radisav Ćurčić is a Serbian-Israeli former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) and weighing 275 pounds (125 kg), he played the center position. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally.

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Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian businessman and politician, 5th President of Ukraine

Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician and oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, he headed the Council of Ukraine's National Bank. He was elected president in 2014 in a landslide, avoiding the second round of voting by winning 55.46% in the first round.

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26/09/1964

Dave Martinez, American baseball player and coach

David Martinez is a former American professional baseball manager and outfielder who most recently managed the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously served as the bench coach for the Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs. He played in MLB for the Cubs, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, and Atlanta Braves from 1986 to 2001. Martinez had a .276 career batting average, 1,599 hits, 91 home runs, 795 runs scored, and 580 runs batted in.

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26/09/1963

Lysette Anthony, English actress and producer

Lysette Anne Chodzko, known professionally as Lysette Anthony, is an English actress and model. She is known for her roles in the film Husbands and Wives (1992), as Princess Lyssa in the 1983 fantasy epic Krull, Christa Norris in the first series of the ITV comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), Angie Tyler/Trenchard in the BBC1 sitcom Three Up, Two Down (1985–1989), and her role as Marnie Nightingale in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2016–2022). She appears in Bryan Adams' music videos from his 1984 album Reckless.

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Joe Nemechek, American race car driver

Joseph Frank Nemechek III is an American professional stock car racing driver. The 1992 NASCAR Busch Series champion, he has the second most national series starts in NASCAR history.

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26/09/1962

Melissa Sue Anderson, American-Canadian actress

Melissa Sue Anderson is an American-Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress after appearing in several commercials in Los Angeles. Anderson is known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

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Jonas Bergqvist, Swedish ice hockey player

Jonas Pär Bergqvist is a Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger, who twice won an Olympic medal in his career.

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Mark Haddon, English author and poet

Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.

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Steve Moneghetti, Australian runner

Stephen James Moneghetti,, is an Australian long-distance runner and physical health consultant who has represented Australia on many occasions. He is a personal development consultant with the Ministry of Education and chair of the Victorian Review into Physical and Sport Education in Schools.

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Al Pitrelli, American guitarist and songwriter

Al Pitrelli is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Megadeth, Alice Cooper and Savatage. He has performed with various acts as a band member, session musician and touring member, including Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Asia, Dee Snider, Kathy Troccoli, Taylor Dayne, Blue Öyster Cult, Exposé and Joe Lynn Turner.

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Tracey Thorn, English singer-songwriter and writer

Tracey Thorn is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl, active from 1982 to 2000, and again from 2022. She was in the band Marine Girls from 1980 to 1983. She has, at several junctures of her career, recorded and released albums as a solo artist, and has also written books, essays and columns.

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Jacky Wu, Taiwanese singer, actor, and television host

Jacky Wu is a Taiwanese television show host, singer, and actor. He hosts numerous variety shows, such as the long running popular Taiwanese variety show Guess.

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26/09/1961

Jeanie Buss, American sports executive

Jeanie Marie Buss is an American sports executive who is the governor and minority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and co-owner and promoter of the U.S. women's professional wrestling promotion Women of Wrestling (WOW).

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Cindy Herron, American singer-songwriter and actress

Cynthia Ann Herron, professionally known as Cindy Herron and sometimes credited as Cindy Herron–Braggs, is an American singer and actress. Herron is best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. She sang lead vocals on the group's first single "Hold On", which garnered mainstream success and sold over a million copies. Despite being absent from the group during certain periods, Herron and fellow group member Terry Ellis are the only original members to appear on all of the group's album releases to date. In the 1980s, Herron began her career as an actress, making her debut appearance in Up and Coming as "Valerie".

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Marianne Mikko, Estonian journalist and politician

Marianne Mikko is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament and former Member of the Parliament of Estonia for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Mikko was born in Võru.

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Will Self, English novelist and journalist

William Woodard Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Self is currently an honorary Professor at Brunel University London, where his interests include psychogeography.

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26/09/1960

Uwe Bein, German footballer and manager

Uwe Bein is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Jouke de Vries, Dutch academic and politician

Jouke de Vries is a Dutch political scientist, university administrator, and politician. He is chairman of the Executive Board of the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. Before that he was Dean of the University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden.

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Doug Supernaw, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Douglas Anderson Supernaw was an American country music artist. After several years performing as a local musician throughout the state of Texas, he signed with BNA Records in 1993.

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26/09/1959

Andrew Bolt, Australian journalist

Andrew Bolt is an Australian conservative social and political commentator. He has worked at the News Corp-owned newspaper company The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) for many years, for both The Herald and its successor, the Herald Sun. His current roles include blogger and columnist at the Herald Sun and host of television show The Bolt Report each weeknight. In Australia, Bolt is a controversial public figure, who has frequently been accused of abrasive demeanour, racist views and inappropriate remarks on various political and social issues.

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Trevor Dodds, Namibian golfer

Trevor George Dodds is a Namibian professional golfer who formerly played on the PGA Tour. He is known for winning the 1998 edition of Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic.

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Rich Gedman, American baseball player and coach

Richard Leo Gedman is an American professional baseball hitting adviser with the Boston Red Sox, and a former coach and player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Red Sox (1980–1990), Houston Astros (1990–1991), and St. Louis Cardinals (1991–1992). Listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 210 pounds (95 kg), he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

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Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (died 2007)

Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous for working during the 1980s and the 1990s as a songwriter in Nautilus Pompilius, one of the most popular rock bands in the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. He was also a prominent literary translator and publisher. Since 1997, he translated into Russian many important pieces of modern prose, such as Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. In 2003, he established Ultra.Kultura publishing house, which immediately gained a scandalous reputation and was closed by the authorities in 2007. Through its brief history, Ultra.Kultura published numerous counter-culture books in a wide range from ultra-right to radical left authors.

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26/09/1958

Rudi Cerne, German figure skater and journalist

Rudi Cerne is a German TV presenter and former figure skater. He is the 1984 European silver medalist and a two-time West German national champion. He competed at two Winter Olympics, finishing fourth in 1984.

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Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (died 1980)

Jan Paul Beahm was an American singer who, along with longtime friend Pat Smear, co-founded the punk rock band the Germs and was best known as their lead vocalist. In 1980, he died by suicide by deliberately overdosing on heroin.

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Robert Kagan, Greek-American historian and author

Robert Kagan is an American columnist. He is a neoconservative scholar. He is a critic of US foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal internationalism.

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Kenny Sansom, English footballer

Kenneth Graham Sansom is a former professional footballer who played as a left-back. An England international, he played for clubs such as Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers, Everton and Watford.

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Richard B. Weldon Jr., American sailor and politician

Richard Weldon was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Maryland District 3B, which then included parts of Frederick and Washington County, Maryland. He defeated Lisa Baugher in 2002 for the new 3B district. He defeated Paul Gilligan in 2006 to retain his seat.

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26/09/1957

Bob Staake, American author and illustrator

Bob Staake STAK is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod.

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Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer and manager

Klaus "Auge" Augenthaler is a German former professional football player and manager. A defender, he won seven Bundesliga titles in his 15-year club career with Bayern Munich. He also represented the West Germany national team, winning the FIFA World Cup in 1990.

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Michael Dweck, American photographer and director

Michael Dweck is an American visual artist and filmmaker. Best known for his narrative photography, Dweck's work "explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves." In 2003, he became the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at Sotheby's, and in 2012, he was the first American photographer to exhibit his work in Cuba since the beginning of the United States embargo in 1960. He lives and works in New York City and in Montauk, New York.

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26/09/1956

Steve Butler, American race car driver and engineer

Steve Butler is an American former auto racing driver. He won six national driving championships in USAC Sprint Car and Silver Crown open-wheel racing. Butler was highly regarded for his technical skills and performed chief mechanic duties on several of his winning race cars. He also communicated his view of racing to fans both as author and television commentator. Despite a relatively brief racing career (1981–1993), Butler is an inductee into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, the USAC Hall of Fame, and the Hoosier Auto Racing Fan's Hall of Fame. He retired at the age of 37 to pursue both an engineering career and more time with his growing family. Butler currently resides in Kokomo, IN.

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Linda Hamilton, American actress

Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress. Known for portraying tough, resilient characters, she made her film debut in 1979 before achieving fame with her starring role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984) and two of its sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Saturn Awards, two MTV Movie Awards, a Satellite Award and a Romy Award, as well as nominations for three Golden Globes and one Primetime Emmy.

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26/09/1955

Carlene Carter, American singer-songwriter

Carlene Carter is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of June Carter Cash and her first husband, Carl Smith.

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26/09/1954

Craig Chaquico, American guitarist

Craig Clinton Chaquico is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer. From 1974 to 1990 he was lead guitarist for the rock bands Jefferson Starship and Starship. In 1993, he started a solo career as an acoustic jazz guitarist and composer.

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Kevin Kennedy, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster

Kevin Curtis Kennedy is an American former player, coach, and manager in professional baseball. Following an eight-season playing career in Minor League Baseball, he managed for 12 seasons in the minor leagues and four seasons in Major League Baseball. After his managerial career, Kennedy worked as a baseball commentator, including for ESPN, Fox Sports, the Tampa Bay Rays, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Cesar Rosas, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Cesar J. Rosas is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist best known as a member of the rock and roll group Los Lobos. Rosas also participates in the Latin supergroup Los Super Seven. Rosas is known for his trademark black sunglasses, goatee and black hair. He plays guitar left handed.

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26/09/1953

Dolores Keane, Irish singer and actress

Dolores Keane was an Irish folk singer. She was a founding member of the group De Dannan and later pursued a solo recording and touring career.

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Douglas A. Melton, American biologist and academic

Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who is the Xander University Professor at Harvard University, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2022. Melton is a co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was an original co-chairman of the Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Melton founded of several biotech companies including Gilead Sciences, Ontogeny, iPierian, and Semma Therapeutics. Melton is a member of the National Academy of the Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a founding member of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

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Paul Stephenson, English police officer

Sir Paul Robert Stephenson is a British retired police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2009 to 2011.

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26/09/1951

Tommy Taylor, English footballer and manager

Thomas Frederick Taylor is an English football manager and former footballer. As a footballer, he played as a defender.

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Stuart Tosh, Scottish singer-songwriter and drummer

Stuart Mcbeath Tosh is a Scottish drummer, songwriter and vocalist. He recorded and toured with a succession of bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Camel, and Roger Daltrey.

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26/09/1950

Andy Haden, New Zealand rugby player (died 2020)

Andrew Maxwell Haden was a New Zealand rugby union player and All Black captain. He played at lock for Auckland and for New Zealand from 1972 until 1985. He also played club rugby for Ponsonby RFC in Auckland and for clubs in the United Kingdom and Italy.

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26/09/1949

Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer and manager

Clodoaldo Tavares de Santana, better known as Clodoaldo, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Wendy Saddington, Australian singer and journalist (died 2013)

Wendy June Saddington, also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen pop newspaper Go-Set from September 1969 to September 1970 as an agony aunt in her weekly "Takes Care of Business" column, and as a feature writer. Saddington had Top 30 chart success with her 1972 solo single "Looking Through a Window", which was written and produced by Billy Thorpe and Warren Morgan of the Aztecs. After adopting Krishna Consciousness in the 1970s she took the name Gandharvika Dasi. In March 2013 she was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and died in June, aged 63.

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Jane Smiley, American novelist

Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).

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Minette Walters, English journalist and author

Minette Caroline Mary Walters DL is an English writer.

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26/09/1948

Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (died 2022)

Dame Olivia Newton-John was an English and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time.

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Vladimír Remek, Czech politician, diplomat, cosmonaut and military pilot

Vladimír Remek is a Czech politician and diplomat, as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in space. As the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, and with the entry of the Czech Republic and Slovakia into the European Union, Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the European Union. Remek was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2013 for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Czech Ambassador to Russia.

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26/09/1947

Lucius Allen, American basketball player

Lucius Oliver Allen Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He is one of only a select few players to have won at least one high school state championship, collegiate national championship, and NBA championship.

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Lynn Anderson, American singer and actress (died 2015)

Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, "Rose Garden", was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Anderson is regarded as one of country music's most significant performers.

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Philippe Lavil, French singer and actor

Philippe Lavil, pseudonym of Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay, is a French singer. He remained particularly famous for his hits singles "Il tape sur des bambous", "Elle préfère l'amour en mer" and "Kolé séré", a duet with Jocelyne Béroard. He was also member of Les Enfoirés in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

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Dick Roth, American swimmer

Richard William Roth was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record holder in two events - the long course 200 m and 400 m individual medley.

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26/09/1946

Andrea Dworkin, American activist and author (died 2005)

Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years. They are found in a dozen solo works: nine books of non-fiction, two novels, and a collection of short stories. Another three volumes were co-written or co-edited with US constitutional law professor and feminist activist Catharine A. MacKinnon.

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John MacLachlan Gray, Canadian actor, playwright, and composer

John MacLachlan Gray, OC is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print. He is best known for his stage musicals and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC TV's The Journal, as well as an author, speaker and social critic on cultural-political issues.

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Mary Beth Hurt, American actress (died 2026)

Mary Beth Hurt was an American actress of stage and screen. She was a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress, as well as a BAFTA Award and Independent Spirit Award nominee. Hurt was also the recipient of an Obie Award and a Clarence Derwent Award.

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Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician

Radha Krishna Mainali, better known as R. K. Mainali is a Nepalese politician. In the early 1970s he was one of the radical communists who led the Jhapa rebellion, inspired by the Naxalite movement in India.

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Louise Simonson, American author

Louise Simonson is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Conan the Barbarian, Power Pack, X-Factor, The New Mutants, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel. She is often referred to by the nickname "Weezie". Among the comic characters she co-created are Cable, Steel, Power Pack, Rictor, Doomsday and the X-Men villain Apocalypse.

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Claudette Werleigh, Haitian Prime Minister

Claudette Werleigh is a Haitian politician who served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996. She was Haiti's first female prime minister.

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26/09/1945

Louise Beaudoin, Canadian academic and politician

Louise Beaudoin is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec until 2012, as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6, 2011 to April 3, 2012. She is best known for her previous tenure as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Chambly, from 1994 to 2003, when she occupied various ministerial positions.

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Gal Costa, Brazilian singer (died 2022)

Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, known professionally as Gal Costa, was a Brazilian singer of popular music. Twelve-time Brazilian Music Awards winner, she was one of the main figures of the tropicalia music scene in Brazil in the late 1960s and appeared on the acclaimed compilation Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis (1968). She was described by The New York Times as "one of Brazil's greatest singers."

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Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter

Bryan Ferry is an English singer and musician. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and also launched a solo career.

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26/09/1944

Jan Brewer, American politician, 22nd Governor of Arizona

Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015, as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to this, Brewer was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Arizona Senate, and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and served as Secretary of State of Arizona from 2003 to 2009.

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Keith O'Nions, English geologist and academic

Sir Robert Keith O'Nions, is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.

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Anne Robinson, English journalist and game show host

Anne Josephine Robinson is a British journalist and television presenter, best known as the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012, and again in 2017 for a one-off celebrity special for Children in Need. She presented the BBC consumer affairs programme Watchdog for a total of 15 years, from 1993 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2015. Robinson hosted the Channel 4 game show Countdown from June 2021 to July 2022, taking over from Nick Hewer. She left the programme on 13 July 2022 after one year, recording a total of 265 episodes.

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26/09/1943

Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and sportscaster

Ian Michael Chappell is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. Known as "Chappelli", he is considered as one of the greatest captains the game has seen. He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation. Born into a cricketing family—his grandfather and brother also captained Australia—Chappell made a hesitant start to international cricket playing as a right-hand middle-order batsman and spin bowler. He found his niche when promoted to bat at number three. Chappell's blunt verbal manner led to a series of confrontations with opposition players and cricket administrators; the issue of sledging first arose during his tenure as captain, and he was a driving force behind the professionalisation of Australian cricket in the 1970s. He was the captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver

Timothy Theodore Schenken is a former racing driver from Sydney, Australia. He participated in 36 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 16 August 1970. He achieved one career podium at the 1971 Austrian Grand Prix, and scored a total of seven championship points. He did however have two non-championship race podiums – he finished third in the 1971 BRDC International Trophy and third in the 1972 International Gold Cup.

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26/09/1942

Kent McCord, American actor

Kent Franklin McWhirter, known by his stage name Kent McCord, is an American retired actor, best known for his roles as Officer Jim Reed on the television series Adam-12, Captain "Boxey" Troy on Galactica 1980, and IASA Colonel John Robert "Jack" Crichton / "Jack" the Ancient on Farscape.

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa, American scholar of Chicana cultural theory (died 2004)

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was an American philosopher and scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work. She also developed theories about the marginal, in-between, and mixed cultures that develop along borders, including on the concepts of Nepantla, Coyoxaulqui imperative, new tribalism, and spiritual activism. Her other notable publications include This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), co-edited with Cherríe Moraga.

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26/09/1941

Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor

Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his performances of the works of Niccolò Paganini.

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Martine Beswick, Jamaican-English model and actress

Mary Rose Penso Beswick is a Jamaican-born British actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.

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David Frizzell, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Frizzell is an American country music singer. He is the younger brother of country musician, Lefty Frizzell. His career started in the late 1950s, but his biggest success came in the 1980s.

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26/09/1939

Ricky Tomlinson, English actor and screenwriter

Eric Tomlinson is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Bobby Grant in the soap opera Brookside (1982–1988), DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker (1993–2006) and Jim Royle in The Royle Family (1998–2012). He also played the titular character in the 2001 football mockumentary Mike Bassett: England Manager.

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26/09/1938

Lucette Aldous, New Zealand-Australian ballerina and educator (died 2021)

Lucette Aldous was an Australian prima ballerina during her performing years. She was the resident principal dancer with The Australian Ballet, and well known for performing the role of Kitri in the film of Rudolf Nureyev's production of Don Quixote, receiving many honours for her years of performance including being appointed AC in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list.

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Jonathan Goldsmith, American actor

Jonathan Goldsmith is an American character actor. He began his career on the New York stage, then started a career in film and television. He appeared in several TV shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. He is best known for appearing in television commercials for Dos Equis beer, from 2006 to 2016, as the character The Most Interesting Man in the World. He began to portray the character again in January 2026 as part of Dos Equis' revival of that advertising campaign.

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Lars-Jacob Krogh, Norwegian journalist (died 2010)

Lars-Jacob Krogh was a Norwegian anchorman and television presenter.

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26/09/1937

Valentin Pavlov, Russian banker and politician, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (died 2003)

Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the city of Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Pavlov began his political career in the Ministry of Finance in 1959. Later, during the Brezhnev Era, he became head of the Financial Department of the State Planning Committee. Pavlov was appointed to the post of Chairman of the State Committee on Prices during the Gorbachev Era, and later became Minister of Finance in Nikolai Ryzhkov's second government. He went on to succeed Ryzhkov as head of government in the newly established post of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.

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Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and agent (died 2015)

Jerome Charles Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.

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26/09/1936

Leroy Drumm, American sailor and songwriter (died 2010)

Leroy Maxey Drumm was an American bluegrass and country songwriter whose work became part of the recorded repertoire of several prominent artists in the genre. He is best known as co-writer of "Colleen Malone," recorded by Hot Rize, which won the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Song of the Year award in 1991.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African academic and politician, 8th First Lady of South Africa (died 2018)

Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela, also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and second wife of Nelson Mandela. During her political career, she served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) political party, she served on the ANC's National Executive Committee and headed its Women's League. Madikizela-Mandela was known to her supporters as the "Mother of the Nation".

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26/09/1935

Bob Barber, English cricketer

Robert William "Bob" Barber is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Lancashire and Warwickshire from 1954 to 1969. He also played 28 Test matches for England. He was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1967. An outstanding schoolboy cricketer at Ruthin School, Barber initially struggled to gain a place whilst at Cambridge after making his debut in 1955. Scoring 1000 runs for the first time in 1959, Barber was made captain of Lancashire.

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Lou Myers, American actor (died 2013)

Lou Myers, known alternately as Lou Leabengula Myers, was an American actor.

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Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (died 2007)

Joe Sherlock was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2002 to 2007, 1987 to 1992 and 1981 to 1982. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1993 to 1997.

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26/09/1934

Neil Coles, English golfer and architect

Neil Chapman Coles, MBE is an English professional golfer. Coles had a successful career in European golf, winning 29 important tournaments between 1956 and 1982. After reaching 50, he won a further 14 important Seniors tournaments between 1985 and 2002, winning his final European Seniors Tour event at the age of 67. He also played in eight Ryder Cup matches between 1961 and 1977.

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26/09/1932

Donna Douglas, American actress (died 2015)

Donna Douglas was an American actress and singer, known for her role as Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971). Following her acting career, Douglas became a real estate agent, gospel singer, inspirational speaker, and author of books for children and adults.

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Joyce Jameson, American actress (died 1987)

Joyce Jameson was an American actress, known for many television roles, including recurring guest appearances as Skippy, one of the "fun girls" in the 1960s television series The Andy Griffith Show as well as "the Blonde" in the Academy Award-winning The Apartment (1960).

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Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of India (died 2024)

Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first and remains the only Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-appointed after completing a full five-year term.

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Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and poet (died 2018)

Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and the dystopian Moscow 2042. He was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship by Soviet authorities in 1980 but later rehabilitated and moved back to Moscow in 1990. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he continued to be an outspoken critic of Russian politics under the rule of Vladimir Putin.

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26/09/1931

Kenneth Parnell, American sex offender (died 2008)

Kenneth Eugene Parnell was an American convicted sex offender, child rapist, and kidnapper infamously known for committing the abductions of 7-year-old Steven Stayner in Merced, California, in 1972 and 5-year-old Timothy White in Ukiah, California, in 1980. He was convicted in 2004 for attempting to purchase a child for sex and died in prison.

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26/09/1930

Philip Bosco, American actor (died 2018)

Philip Michael Bosco was an American actor. He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor and for his starring role in the 2007 film The Savages. Bosco won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988.

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Joe Brown, English mountaineer and author (died 2020)

Joseph Brown was an English mountaineer who was regarded as an outstanding pioneer of rock climbing during the 1950s and early 1960s. Together with his early climbing partner, Don Whillans, he was one of a new breed of British post-war climbers who came from working class backgrounds in contrast to the upper and middle class professionals who had dominated the sport up to the Second World War. He became the first person to climb the third-highest mountain in the world when he was on the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. Some of his climbs were televised and he assisted with mountaineering scenes in several films; Brown died on 15 April 2020 at the age of 89.

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26/09/1928

Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor (died 2019)

Bob Van Der Veken was a Belgian actor.

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Wilford White, American football player (died 2013)

Wilford Parley "Whizzer" White was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He also was a member of the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1951 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and became the school's first College Football All-American.

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26/09/1927

Robert Cade, American physician and educator, co-invented Gatorade (died 2007)

James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Texas, and became a professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida. Although Cade engaged in many areas of medical research, he is most widely remembered as the leader of the research team that created the sports drink Gatorade. Gatorade went on to have significant medical applications for treating dehydration in patients, and has generated over $500 million in royalties for the university.

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Patrick O'Neal, American actor (died 1994)

Patrick Wisdom O'Neal was an American actor and restaurateur.

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Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (died 2010)

Enzo Bearzot was an Italian professional football player and manager. A defender and midfielder in his playing career, he also coached the Italy national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

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26/09/1926

Julie London, American singer and actress (died 2000)

Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her contralto voice, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969. Her recording of "Cry Me a River", a song she introduced on her debut album Julie Is Her Name, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In addition to her musical notoriety, London was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for her portrayal of Nurse Dixie McCall in the television series Emergency!

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Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist and academic (died 2011)

Manfred Mayrhofer was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary of Sanskrit.

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26/09/1925

Norm Dussault, American-Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)

Joseph Normand Marcel "Ti-Nomme" Dussault was an American-born Canadian ice hockey player who played 206 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1947 to 1951. The rest of his career lasted from 1945 to 1955 and was spent in the minor leagues.

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Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and race car driver (died 1982)

Martin David Robinson, known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular and successful singers of his genre for most of his nearly four-decade career, which spanned from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. He was also an early outlaw country pioneer.

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26/09/1924

Jean Hoerni, Swiss physicist, inventor and businessman (died 1997)

Jean Amédée Hoerni was a Swiss-born American engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight". He developed the planar process, an important technology for reliably fabricating and manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.

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26/09/1923

Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)

Dev Anand was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Through a career that spanned over six decades, he worked in more than 100 films. Anand is a recipient of four Filmfare Awards, including two for Best Actor. The Government of India honoured him with Padma Bhushan, Indian third highest civilian honour in 2001 and with Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002.

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Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, English cricketer, lawyer, and judge (died 2015)

William Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, MC, PC was a British soldier, cricketer, barrister, judge and life peer.

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James Hennessy, English businessman and diplomat (died 2024)

Sir James Patrick Ivan Hennessy was a British diplomat and public servant who was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons from 1982 to 1987.

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26/09/1922

Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (died 1985)

Panagiotis "Takis" Miliadis was a Greek actor who is known for his comedic acting roles.

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Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (died 2014)

Nicholas Romanovich Romanov was a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov and president of the Romanov Family Association. Although undoubtedly a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, his claimed titles and official membership in the former Imperial House were disputed by those who maintained that his parents' marriage violated the laws of the Russian Empire.

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26/09/1919

Barbara Britton, American actress (died 1980)

Barbara Britton was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Western film roles opposite Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Gene Autry and for her two-year tenure as inquisitive amateur sleuth Pam North on the television and radio series Mr. and Mrs. North.

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Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (died 2012)

Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.

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26/09/1918

Eric Morley, English businessman and television host, founded the Miss World (died 2000)

Eric Douglas Morley was an English television host and the founder of the Miss World pageant and Come Dancing programme. His widow, Julia Morley, is now head of the pageant and his son, Steve Douglas, is one of its presenters.

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26/09/1917

Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1976)

David Réal Caouette was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada and founder of the Ralliement des créditistes. Outside politics he worked as a car dealer.

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Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese-French philosopher and theorist (died 1993)

Trần Đức Thảo was a Vietnamese philosopher. His work attempted to unite phenomenology with Marxist philosophy. His work had some currency in France in the 1950s and 1960s, and was cited favorably by Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard and Louis Althusser.

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26/09/1914

Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and mountaineer (died 2009)

Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli on 31 July 1954 he was in the first party to reach the summit of K2.

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Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (died 2011)

Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was 15 years old. He also had behavioral problems but "turned his life around" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he came to believe that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, and he referred to physical culture and nutrition as "the salvation of America". He was nicknamed the "Godfather of Fitness".

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26/09/1913

Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (died 1998)

Francis Charles "Mr. Zero" Brimsek was an American professional ice hockey player. He was a goaltender for ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy as a rookie and the Vezina Trophy twice, and he was named to the NHL All-Star team eight times. He was also a member of two Stanley Cup championships. At the time of his retirement in 1950, he held the records for most wins and shutouts recorded by an American goaltender; these records stood for 54 years and 61 years respectively. In 1966, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the first American goalie to be inducted and in 1973, he was part of the inaugural class of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1998, Brimsek was ranked 67 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, the highest ranked American goaltender.

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26/09/1911

Al Helfer, American sportscaster (died 1975)

George Alvin "Al" Helfer was an American radio sportscaster.

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26/09/1909

Bill France Sr., American race car driver, founded NASCAR (died 1992)

William Henry Getty France was an American businessman and racing driver. He was also known as Bill France Sr. or Big Bill. He is best known for founding and managing NASCAR, a sanctioning body of American-based stock car racing.

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A. P. Hamann, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1977)

Anthony P. "Dutch" Hamann was the city manager of San Jose, California, United States, from 1950 to 1969. During his tenure, San Jose grew from a small agriculture-based city of 95,000 residents to a large, economically diverse city of almost 500,000.

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26/09/1907

Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (died 1983)

Anthony Frederick Blunt, styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and a Soviet spy.

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Shug Fisher, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and comedian (died 1984)

Shug Fisher was an American character actor, singer, musician, and comedian. During his 50-year entertainment career, he performed in many Western films, often as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in serials and in B movies starring Roy Rogers. Fisher also was cast in supporting roles on a variety of television series, although most frequently on Gunsmoke and The Beverly Hillbillies. His comic trademarks included his ability to stutter at will and his bemused facial expressions.

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Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (died 1992)

Lambertus "Bep" van Klaveren was a Dutch boxer, who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Van Klaveren remains the only Dutch boxer to have won an Olympic gold medal. His younger brother Piet competed as a boxer at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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26/09/1905

Millito Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player (died 2011)

Emilio Navarro, better known as "Millito Navarro", was a Puerto Rican second baseman and shortstop. Navarro was the second Puerto Rican to play baseball in the American Negro leagues, two years after Gacho Torres played for the 1926 Newark Stars. At the time of his death, at age 105, Navarro was the oldest former professional baseball player and the last surviving player from the American Negro League.

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Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and coach (died 1996)

Karl Rappan was an Austrian footballer and coach. He played and managed mostly in Switzerland, where he won multiple titles. He had four tenures as coach of the Switzerland national team, which he managed in three World Cups, and is the all-time leader in matches won as coach of the Swiss team. He introduced a major football strategy known as the "bolt", which gave origin to the catenaccio system. He also helped create the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

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26/09/1902

Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mobster (died 1957)

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, Anastasia eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family. He also controlled New York City's waterfront for most of his criminal career, mainly through dockworker unions. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became the boss of the family.

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26/09/1901

George Raft, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1980)

George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy, Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni, Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney, Invisible Stripes (1939) with Humphrey Bogart, and Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon; and as a dancer in Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940) with Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and again with Bogart.

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Ted Weems, American bandleader and musician (died 1963)

Wilfred Theodore Wemyes, known professionally as Ted Weems, was an American bandleader and musician. Weems's work in music was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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26/09/1900

Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (died 1983)

Suzanne Belperron, born in Saint-Claude, France, was an influential 20th-century jewellery designer based in Paris. She worked for the Boivin and Herz jewellery houses before the outbreak of World War II. Subsequently, she took over the Herz company, renaming it Herz-Belperron. She had many important clients, including royalty and people in the arts and show business on both sides of the Atlantic.

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26/09/1898

George Gershwin, American pianist and composer (died 1937)

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930) and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". His Of Thee I Sing (1931) was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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26/09/1897

Pope Paul VI (died 1978)

Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements.

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Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (died 1917)

Arthur Percival Foley Rhys-Davids, was an English flying ace of the First World War.

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26/09/1895

Jürgen Stroop, German general (died 1952)

Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 and 1943–1944. He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942–1945. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 with German Troops consisted of Heer Troops including Waffen-SS and the Order Police battalions and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.

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26/09/1894

Gladys Brockwell, American actress (died 1929)

Gladys Brockwell was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.

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26/09/1892

Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (died 1970)

Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. He is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with his wife, Helen Lynd; as the co-author of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937); and a pioneer in the use of social surveys. He was also the author of Knowledge for What? The Place of the Social Sciences in American Culture (1939). In addition to writing and research, Lynd taught at Columbia from 1931 to 1960. He also served on U.S. government committees and advisory boards, including President Herbert Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. Lynd was also a member of several scientific societies.

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26/09/1891

William McKell, Australian politician, 12th Governor General of Australia (died 1985)

Sir William John McKell was an Australian politician who served as the 12th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1947 to 1953. He had previously been the 27th premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, as leader of the Labor Party.

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Charles Münch, French violinist and conductor (died 1968)

Charles Munch was an Alsatian French symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his mastery of the French orchestral repertoire, he was best known as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1953)

Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle.

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26/09/1890

Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (died 1959)

John Tresadern was an English professional football player and manager. He played twice for the England national team.

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26/09/1889

Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (died 1946)

William Gordon Brewster was an Irish illustrator and editorial cartoonist.

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Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (died 1976)

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequent philosophy, social sciences and humanities, and theology.

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26/09/1888

J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author (died 1964)

James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. He was known in his lifetime for his outspoken liberal views against Texas state politics, and he carried out a long, personal war against what he saw as braggart Texans, religious prejudice, restraints on individual liberty, and the mechanized world's assault on the human spirit. He was instrumental in saving the Texas Longhorn breed of cattle from extinction.

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T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.

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26/09/1887

Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet (died 1958)

Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956.

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Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (died 1967)

Antonio Garrido Monteagudo, better known as Antonio Moreno or Tony Moreno, was a Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.

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Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (died 1979)

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.

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26/09/1886

Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)

Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.

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26/09/1884

Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 1951)

John Paris Bickell was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and sports team owner. He is best known for his long-time association with the Toronto Maple Leafs professional ice hockey team as the owner, president, chairman and director 1924–1951.

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26/09/1878

Walter Steinbeck, German actor (died 1942)

Walter Steinbeck was a German film actor.

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26/09/1877

Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (died 1963)

Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for a short duration. This therapy is used in an attempt to treat certain mental disorders, and may be useful when other possible treatments have not, or cannot, cure the person of their mental disorder.

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Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1962)

Alfred Denis Cortot was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his poetic insight into Romantic piano works, particularly those of Chopin, Franck, Saint-Saëns and Schumann. For Éditions Durand, he edited editions of almost all piano music by Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

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Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (died 1958)

Bertha De Vriese was a Belgian physician. When she earned her degree as a doctor of medicine at Ghent University, where she was the first woman to conduct research and the first woman physician to graduate from the school. Although she was not allowed to pursue an academic career, De Vriese opened a private pediatric clinic and served as the director of the Children's Ward at the Bijloke Hospital in Ghent. In 1914, she married Josef Vercouillie, also a physician.

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26/09/1876

Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and author (died 1957)

Edith Abbott was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background in economics. She was a leading activist in social reform with the ideals that humanitarianism needed to be embedded in education. Abbott was also in charge of implementing social work studies to the graduate level. Though she was met with resistance on her work with social reform at the University of Chicago, she ultimately was successful and was elected as the school's dean in 1924, making her one of the first female deans in the United States. Abbott was foremost an educator and saw her work as a combination of legal studies and humanitarian work which shows in her social security legislation. She is known as an economist who pursued implementing social work at the graduate level. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott.Social work will never become a profession—except through the professional schools

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Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet, lawyer, and politician (died 1952)

Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang was a distinguished lawyer, poet and Pakistan Movement leader. He was the Deputy Leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1938 to 1942, and was appointed to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in April, 1950.

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26/09/1875

Edmund Gwenn, English-American actor (died 1959)

Edmund Gwenn was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the corresponding Golden Globe Award, and a Photoplay Award. He received a second Golden Globe, Photoplay Award, and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). He is also remembered for his appearances in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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26/09/1874

Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (died 1940)

Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs taken during times such as the Progressive Era and the Great Depression captured young children working in harsh conditions, playing a role in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.

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Charles Vyner Brooke, 3rd Raj of Sarawak (died 1963)

Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke was the third and last White Rajah of the Raj of Sarawak.

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26/09/1873

Wacław Berent, Polish author and translator (died 1940)

Wacław Berent was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.A.M. and Wł. Rawicz. He studied Natural Science in Kraków and Zurich, and obtained a PhD in Munich before returning to Warsaw and embarking on a literary career around the turn of the century. Having devoted himself to writing he was influenced by Nietzsche, whom he translated. Berent became a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature in 1933.

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26/09/1872

Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (died 1945)

Max Ehrmann was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata". He often wrote on spiritual themes.

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26/09/1870

Christian X of Denmark (died 1947)

Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark and independent Iceland between 1918 and 1944.

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26/09/1869

Komitas, Armenian-French priest and composer (died 1935)

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.

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26/09/1865

Archibald Butt, United States Army Officer (died 1912)

Archibald Willingham DeGraffenreid Clarendon Butt was an American Army officer and aide to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. After a few years as a newspaper reporter, he served two years as the First Secretary of the American embassy in Mexico. He was commissioned in the United States Volunteers in 1898 and served in the Quartermaster Corps during the Spanish–American War. After brief postings in Washington, D.C., and Cuba, Butt was appointed military aide to Republican presidents Roosevelt and Taft. He was a highly influential advisor on a wide range of topics to both men, and his writings are a major source of historical information on the presidencies. He died in the sinking of the British liner Titanic in 1912.

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Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (died 1937)

Mary Du Caurroy Russell, Duchess of Bedford, was a British aviator and ornithologist. She was honoured for her work in founding hospitals and working in them during the First World War. She later financed and took part in record breaking flights to Karachi and Cape Town.

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26/09/1856

Anna Paaske, Norwegian opera singer and music teacher (died 1935)

Anna Paaske was a Norwegian opera singer and music teacher. She often performed in Wagner roles in concerts in Scandinavia and Northern Europe.

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26/09/1849

Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducted significant research on the physiology of digestion, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904.

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26/09/1848

Henry Walters, American art collector and philanthropist (died 1931)

Henry Walters was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will for the benefit of the public. From the late 19th century, Walters lived most of the time in New York City, where from 1903 on, he served on the executive committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was selected as second vice president in 1913, a position he held until his death.

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26/09/1843

Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (died 1912)

Joseph Furphy was an Australian author and poet. He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.

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26/09/1840

Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (died 1923)

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the eighth premier of Quebec, serving two separate terms.

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26/09/1820

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian philosopher, painter, and academic (died 1891)

Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra 'Vidyasagar', was an Indian educator and social reformer of the 19th century.

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26/09/1792

William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (died 1842)

Captain William Hobson was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of New Zealand from 1841 to 1842. He was a co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi which he, as Crown representative, and several Maori chiefs signed on 6 February 1840. On 3 May 1840, he proclaimed British sovereignty over New Zealand. He also selected the site for a new capital, which he named Auckland. In May 1841, New Zealand was constituted as a separate Crown colony with Hobson promoted to governor and commander-in-chief. In his final months, Hobson was dogged by poor health which left him detached from political affairs. He died in office in September 1842.

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26/09/1791

Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer (died 1824)

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a French painter and lithographer. His best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.

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26/09/1783

Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, English politician and literary figure (died 1858)

Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, known as Richard Neville until 1797 and as the Hon. Richard Griffin between 1797 and 1825, was a British Whig politician and literary figure.

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26/09/1774

Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist (died 1845)

John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia. He became an American icon while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance that he attributed to apples. He was the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio, and today is recognized as an American folk hero.

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26/09/1767

Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1835)

Wenzel Müller was an Austrian composer and conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas.

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26/09/1758

Cosme Argerich, Argentinian physician (died 1820)

Cosme Mariano Argerich was a pioneer of military medical practices in Argentina.

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26/09/1750

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (died 1810)

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, was a Royal Navy officer. Collingwood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and later lived in Morpeth, Northumberland. He entered the Royal Navy at a young age, eventually rising from midshipman to lieutenant during the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill during which he led a naval brigade. In the 1780s and 1790s Collingwood participated in the French Revolutionary Wars, during which time he captained several ships and reached the rank of post-captain. He took part in several key naval battles of the time, including the Glorious First of June and the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

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26/09/1711

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, First Lord of the Admiralty (died 1779)

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC was a British politician and peer who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1757 to 1761. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt, serving with him in the Pitt–Newcastle ministry during Britain's participation in the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1761. He resigned, along with Pitt, in 1761 in protest over the ministry's refusal to declare war on Spain.

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26/09/1698

William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (died 1755)

William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1721 to 1729.

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26/09/1660

George William, Duke of Liegnitz (died 1675)

George William, also known as George IV William was the last Silesian duke of Legnica (Liegnitz) and Brzeg (Brieg) from 1672 until his death. He was the last male member of the Silesian Piast dynasty descending from Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), as well as the last legitimate male member of the entire House of Piast.

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26/09/1651

Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Philadelphia (died 1720)

Francis Daniel Pastorius was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official. He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German-American settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany.

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26/09/1641

Nehemiah Grew, English plant anatomist and physiologist (died 1712)

Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".

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26/09/1637

Sébastien Leclerc, French painter (died 1714)

Sébastien Leclerc or Le Clerc was an artist from the French province of the Three Bishoprics. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings, and engravings of paintings; and worked mostly in Paris, where he was counseled by the King's painter, Charles Le Brun, to devote himself entirely to engraving. Leclerc joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1672 and taught perspective there. He worked for Louis XIV, being made "graveur du Roi", doing engraving work for the royal house. Leclerc also engaged in periodic work as a technical draftsman and military engineer.

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26/09/1526

Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1569)

Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1532. With the support of his regent, his uncle Rupert, Wolfgang introduced the Reformation to Zweibrücken in 1537.

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26/09/1462

Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves (died 1506)

Engelbert of Cleves, Count of Nevers was the younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers, only surviving child of John II, Count of Nevers.

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26/09/1406

Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (died 1430)

Thomas Ros or Roos, 8th Baron Ros of Helmsley was an English peer.

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26/09/1329

Anne of Bavaria, German queen consort (died 1353)

Anne of Bavaria was Queen of Bohemia by marriage to Charles of Luxembourg. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Anna, daughter of Otto III of Carinthia.

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26/09/0932

Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, Arab caliph (died 975)

Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah was the fourth Fatimid caliph and the 14th Ismaili imam, reigning from 953 to 975. It was during his caliphate that the center of power of the Fatimid dynasty was moved from Ifriqiya to Egypt. The Fatimids founded the city of Cairo in 969 as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt during his reign. The Al-Mu'izz Street in Cairo is named after him, it is considrered to be the most important historical street in Cairo and it includes monumental buildings from the Fatimid era as well as the later Ayyubid, Memluk and Ottoman eras.

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