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Your American History Reference Guide! - August 26
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August 26
(Redirected from 26 August)
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.
Events
100 BC-AD 1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
1200-1899
- 1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister in 1721-1742 (d. 1745)
- 1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon (d. 1810)
- 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
- 1845 - Mary Anne Nicholls, the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
- 1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube (d. 1961)
- 1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
- 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, art critic (d. 1918)
- 1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO, responsible for the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1990)
- 1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
- 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector (d. 1979)
1900-1999
- 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)
- 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, Anglo-American writer (d. 1986)
- 1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)
- 1909 - Jim Davis, actor (d. 1981)
- 1914 - Julio Cortázar, writer (d. 1984)
- 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, journalist
- 1922 - Irving R. Levine , journalist
- 1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
- 1934 - Tom Heinsohn, basketball Hall-of-Famer and commentator
- 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
- 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director
- 1942 - Dennis Turner, Labour Party member of Parliament
- 1944 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
- 1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer
- 1952 - Michael Jeter, actor (d. 2003)
- 1960 - Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader
- 1971 - Thalía, Mexican actress
- 1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
- 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American child actor
- 1988 - Nathan Dixon , actress
- 1991 - Nelson Carr , grandson of Peter D. Carr
Deaths
1200-1899
1900-1999
- 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., actor
- 1945 - Franz Werfel, writer
- 1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer
- 1968 - Kay Francis, actress, (b. 1899)
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- 1975 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
- 1978 - Charles Boyer, actor
- 1979 - Mika Waltari, author
- 1980 - Tex Avery, cartoonist
- 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
- 1986 - Ted Knight, actor
- 1989 - Irving Stone, author
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
August 25 - August 27 - July 26 - September 26 -- listing of all days
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