Famous People Born on December 26
Famous people born on December 26 include Mao Zedong (1893), Charles Babbage (1791) and Henry Miller (1891).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Mao Zedong
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Charles Babbage
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Henry Miller
American novelist (1891–1980)
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 to 1250
Jared Leto
American actor and musician (born 1971)
Hugo Lloris
French footballer (born 1986)
José Ramos-Horta
President of East Timor (2007–2012; since 2022)
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of Estonia from 2006 to 2016
Lars Ulrich
Danish drummer (born 1963)
Aaron Ramsey
Welsh former footballer (born 1990)
Alejo Carpentier
Cuban novelist (1904–1980)
Kit Harington
English actor (born 1986)
Denis Cheryshev
Russian footballer (born 1990)
Norman Angell
British politician and Nobel Laureate
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist (1780–1872)
Thomas Gray
English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771)
Phil Spector
American record producer and murderer (1939–2021)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Harry S. Truman
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Gerald Ford
38th President of the United States
Desmond Tutu
Anti-apartheid cleric, Nobel Peace Prize
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014
Babur
Mughal emperor from 1526 to 1530
Claude Adrien Helvétius
French philosopher (1715–1771)
Heinrich Schliemann
German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
Karolos Papoulias
President of Greece from 2005 to 2015
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and writer (1875–1933)
Jason Robards
American actor (1922–2000)
Howard Hawks
American film director (1896–1977)
Shankar Dayal Sharma
President of India from 1992 to 1997
Elsa Lanchester
British-American actress (1902–1986)
Sources
- December 26 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths