Birthdays in History in 1926

About 1926

How Old? 91 or 92 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation or the G.I. Generation

Chinese Zodiac: Ox (Jan 1 - Feb 12), Tiger (Feb 13 - Dec 31)

Birthdays in History

Birthdays 1 - 200 of 300

Richard DeVos

Mar 4 Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mar 4 James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)

Alan Greenspan

Mar 6 Alan Greenspan, American economist, presidential advisor and Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States (1987-2006), born in NYC, New York

Mar 6 Elwood H [Bud] Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971- )
Mar 9 Gerrit A. Kooy, Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa), born in Kedichem, The Netherlands
Mar 11 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor
Mar 11 Patricia Tindaole, England, architect

Ralph Abernathy

Mar 11 Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), born in Linden, Alabama (d. 1990)

Mar 11 Thomas Starzl, American surgeon, performed 1st successful liver transplant, born in Le Mars, Iowa (d. 2017)
Mar 12 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
Mar 12 George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
Mar 12 John C[lellon] Holmes, American writer (Horn)

Mar 12 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
Mar 13 F. H. McClintock, British criminologist, born in London (d. 1994)
Mar 15 Tim Valentine, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1983-95 ), born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (d. 2015)
Mar 16 Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
Mar 17 Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
Mar 22 Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
Mar 22 Lawrence Jackson, Provost Emeritus (Blackburn)
Mar 24 Dario Fo, Italian playwright and performer (Nobel Prize Literature 1997), born in Sangiano (d. 2016)
Mar 25 Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak)
Mar 27 Louis Blom-Cooper, barrister specialising in public and administrative law and co-editor of The Judicial House of Lords 1876–2009, born in London
Mar 27 Frank O'Hara, American writer and poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
Mar 28 Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, born in Madrid (d. 2014)
Mar 30 Lord Rayner [Derek Rayner], Norwich, Norfolk, English businessman and chief executive (Marks & Spencer)

Ingvar Kamprad

Mar 30 Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish eccentric businessman (founder of IKEA) and author (The Testament of a Furniture Dealer), born in Pjätteryd, Sweden (d. 2018)

Mar 31 John Fowles, English novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman)

Anne McCaffrey

Apr 1 Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, American sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 2011)

Apr 2 Michael Rizzello, sculpter and coin designer, born in London (d. 2004)
Apr 3 Virgil Grissom, U.S. Air Force test pilot and NASA astronaut (Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1), born in Mitchell, Indiana (d. 1967)
Apr 6 Ian Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP
Apr 6 Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
Apr 7 Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
Apr 8 Henry N. Cobb, American architect
Apr 8 Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
Apr 9 Graham Hills, principal (Strathclyde University, England)
Apr 9 Harris Wofford, (Sen-R-Pennsylvania)

Hugh Hefner

Apr 9 Hugh Hefner, American magazine publisher and businessman (Playboy), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2017)

Apr 9 Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland)
Apr 9 Michael Ogden, British barrister (Ogden Tables), born in London (d. 2003)
Apr 10 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association), born in Scott, Arkansas (d. 1995)
Apr 13 John Spencer-Churchill, 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner
Apr 14 Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
Apr 16 Barbara Tizzard, British educator
Apr 17 Arthur Hockaday, director-Gen (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
Apr 17 G M Hughes, professor/zoologist
Apr 17 Michael Vernon, CEO (RNLI)
Apr 20 Harriet Elizabeth Byrd, American politician, Member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1998-88), born in Cheyenne, Wyoming (d. 2015)

Elizabeth II

Apr 21 Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1952- ), born in London, England

Apr 22 James Stirling, Scottish D-day-parachutist/architect/knight
Apr 23 J. P. Donleavy, American novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters), born in Brooklyn, New York
Apr 24 Thorbjorn Falldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister (1976-78, 79-82) and sheep farmer, born in Hogsjo (d. 2016)

Apr 25 Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (Social Democratic Party of Austria), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2008)
Apr 26 Michael Joughin, CEO (Scottish Hydro-Electric)
Apr 26 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)

Harper Lee

Apr 28 [Nelle] Harper Lee, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird), born in Monroeville Alabama (d. 2016)

Apr 29 Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
Apr 30 Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day)
May 1 Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician
May 2 Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician, born in Port-Daniel–Gascons, Canada (d. 1993)
May 4 Milton O. Thompson, NASA astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), born in Crookston, Minnesota (d. 1993)
May 4 Gerlind Reinshagen, German writer, born in Konigsberg, Germany
May 4 Milt Thompson, American astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), NASA test pilot and chief-engineer, born in Crookston, Minnesota (d. 1993)
May 6 John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises) and British Major-General
May 6 Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician, co-founder of the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)
May 8 Ronald Waterhouse, British high court judge (d.2011)
May 9 Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England)
May 9 Francis Kennedy, British diplomat
May 9 Joshua Hassan, chief minister (Gibralter)
May 9 Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)
May 10 Duncan Watson, president (World Blind Union)
May 10 Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (d. 2002)
May 11 Ernest Harrison, CEO (Racal Electronics)
May 12 Earl Hutto, American politician (Rep-D-Florida, 1979-95 ), born in Panama City, Florida
May 12 Mervyn Dymally, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1981-93), born in Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2012)
May 13 Wallace Breem, British author
May 13 Dewey Philip "Daddy-O", American pioneering DJ, born in Crump, Tennessee (d. 1968)
May 15 Anthony Shaffer, Engish playwright (Sleuth), twin brother to Peter, born in Liverpool (d. 2001)
May 15 Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus), twin brother to Anthony, born in Liverpool (d. 2016)
May 17 Cicely Berry, British theatre director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
May 17 David Young, Lt-Gen/CEO (Cairn Tech)
May 17 David Ogilvy, Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth, born in London
May 17 Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
May 19 Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
May 20 John Lucarotti, scriptwriter
May 21 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
May 26 Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
May 30 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual (born George William Jorgensen, Jr)
May 30 James Whitman McLamore, businessman
May 31 Derek Birley, founding Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ulster
May 31 Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, British peer and business man (d. 2008)

Allen Ginsberg

Jun 3 Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet (Howl), born in Newark, New Jersey

Jun 3 Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969- )
Jun 3 Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
Jun 4 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
Jun 6 Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
Jun 8 Cranley Onslow, British politician (C), born in Bexhill (d. 2001)
Jun 8 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
Jun 10 Willem Oltmans, Dutch journalist (Outlawed, Free as a Bird)
Jun 11 John Aspinall, English zoo owner and gambling club host, born in Delhi, India (d. 2000)
Jun 13 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician
Jun 14 Hermann Kant, German writer, born in Hamburg
Jun 15 Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)

Efraín Ríos Montt

Jun 16 Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan general and dictator convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, born in Huehuetenango, Guatemala (d. 2018)

Jun 17 Alan Walters, political economist
Jun 18 Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
Jun 18 Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times)
Jun 20 Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
Jun 25 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (Gott von Manhattan), born in Klagenfurt, Austria (d. 1973)
Jun 28 Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
Jun 28 Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner), born in Queens, New York (d. 2012)
Jun 29 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, born in Kuwait City (d. 2006)
Jun 29 Rex Hunt, British diplomat and Governor of the Falkland Islands (1982-1985), born in Redcar, North Yorkshire, England (d. 2012)
Jun 30 Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
Jul 1 Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel laureate, born in NYC, New York
Jul 1 Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
Jul 2 Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
Jul 3 Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
Jul 3 William Roll, German poltergeist researcher and parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 2012)
Jul 5 Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch politician (2nd Member of parliament (Dutch Lib Party)), born in Amsterdam (d. 1980)
Jul 6 Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., American hotel heir and 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor, born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1969)
Jul 8 Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American author and psychiatrist (On Death and Dying), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 2004)
Jul 8 John D Dingell, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1955- )
Jul 9 Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist (Nobel 1975), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jul 9 Murphy Anderson, American comic artist (DC Comics), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 2015)
Jul 9 Mathilde Krim, American medical researcher and founding chairman of amfAR (Foundation for AIDS Research), born in Como, Italy (d. 2018)
Jul 11 Ralph D Abernathy, American president (SCLC)
Jul 11 Frederick Buechner, American author
Jul 15 John Graham, British ambassador to NATO
Jul 15 Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
Jul 15 Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
Jul 16 Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks & Spencer), born in Blackpool, England (d. 2005)
Jul 16 Philip Randle, British biochemist (Randle cycle), born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire (d. 2006)
Jul 16 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
Jul 18 Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (The Stone Angel), born in Neepawa, Manitoba (d. 1987)
Jul 19 Max Sordam, Suriname warden and writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
Jul 21 Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner
Jul 21 Karel Reisz, director (Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain)
Jul 21 Norman Jewison, director (Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All)
Jul 21 Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
Jul 22 Peter Michael Grayson, British showman, born in Manchester (d. 1996)

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