Famous Birthdays for Year 1926

Months in Year 1926: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 673

Jan 1st - Claire Polin [Schaff], composer flautist/musicologist
Jan 1st - Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
Jan 3rd - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist
Jan 3rd - George Martin, record producer (The Beatles)
Jan 5th - Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
Jan 5th - Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl)
Jan 5th - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
Jan 5th - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
Jan 6th - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
Jan 6th - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
Jan 6th - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
Jan 6th - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
Jan 6th - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
Jan 8th - Evelyn Lear, [Shulman], Brooklyn, NY, soprano, (d. 2012)
Jan 8th - Jani Christou, composer
Jan 8th - Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines], NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
Jan 8th - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
Jan 9th - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
Jan 10th - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician
Jan 11th - Alexander Gibson, conductor
Jan 11th - Elisabeth M J "Elly" Bakker, Dutch actress (The Miser)
Jan 11th - Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive (NBC-TV)
Jan 11th - Lev Stepanovich Demin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
Jan 11th - Phil Sidey, broadcaster
Jan 12th - Morton Feldman, NYC, composer
Jan 12th - Ray Price, country singer (Good Times)
Jan 13th - Carolyn Heilbrun, [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album)
Jan 13th - Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author (Change of Use)
Jan 13th - Michael Bond, British writer
Jan 14th - Frank Aletter, Long Island NY, actor (Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy)
Jan 14th - Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist
Jan 14th - Tom Tryon, Hartford CT, actor (Cardinal, All That Glitters)
Jan 14th - Warren Mitchell, English actor
Jan 15th - Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
Jan 15th - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996)
Jan 16th - John "Jack" Layden, local politician
Jan 17th - Clyde Walcott, cricketer (one of the three W's, later ICC chairman)
Jan 17th - Moira Shearer, Dunfermline Scotland, ballerina (Red Shoes)
Jan 17th - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer
Jan 17th - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
Jan 19th - Fritz Weaver, Pitts Pa, actor (Josef-Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin)
Jan 19th - Libera Carlier, Flemish author (Action Station Go!)
Jan 20th - David Eugene Tudor, Phila Penn, composer
Jan 20th - Michael Higgins, Brooklyn NY, actor (1918, Wanda, Black Stallion)
Actress Patricia Neal (Jan 20th) Jan 20th - Patricia Neal, Packard Ky, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), (d. 2010)
Jan 20th - Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean
Jan 20th - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
Jan 20th - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
Jan 21st - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
Jan 21st - Paul Burke, New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty) [or Jul 21]
Jan 21st - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
Jan 21st - Steve Reeves, Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
Jan 21st - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
Jan 22nd - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
Jan 22nd - Tom Blackburn, writer
Jan 24th - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
Jan 26th - Charles Tidbury, former chairman (Whitbread & Company)
Jan 26th - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
Jan 26th - Ronnie Hilton, singer (Moonraker)
Jan 26th - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
Jan 27th - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
Jan 27th - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
Jan 29th - Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist
Jan 29th - Bob Berry, cricketer (England slow lefty 1950)
Jan 30th - Ruth Brown, Portsmouth Va, actress (Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In)
Jan 30th - Lizbeth Webb, Reading,, UK, soprano, (d. 2013)
Jan 31st - Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust)
Jan 31st - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
Feb 1st - Douglas Johnson, historian
Feb 1st - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
Feb 1st - Stuart Whitman, SF California, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
Feb 2nd - Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
Feb 2nd - Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
Feb 2nd - Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera)
Feb 2nd - Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
Feb 2nd - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
Feb 3rd - Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
Feb 3rd - Glen Tetley, US choreographer
Feb 3rd - Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
Feb 3rd - J Roy Rowland, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
Feb 3rd - Shelley Berman, Chicago, comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
Feb 4th - John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer
Feb 5th - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times)
Feb 6th - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
Feb 6th - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
Feb 7th - Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
Feb 8th - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
Feb 9th - Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland
Feb 10th - Danny Blanchflower, British(?) soccer player
Feb 11th - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera)
Feb 11th - Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
Feb 11th - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
Feb 12th - Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
Feb 12th - Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
Feb 12th - Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant
Feb 13th - Barney Childs, composer
Feb 14th - John Clark, CEO (Plessey Company)
Feb 16th - Jack Levy, mechanical engineer
Feb 16th - John Schlesinger, film director, (Midnight Cowboy)
Feb 17th - Friedrich Cerha, composer
Feb 17th - Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters)
Feb 18th - Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat, Homer & Eddie)
Feb 18th - Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers)
Feb 19th - Gyorgy Kurtag, composer
Feb 20th - Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral
Feb 20th - Edgar Meuli, cricketer (opened NZ batting in Test v South Africa 1953)
Feb 20th - Kenneth H Olsen, US, engineer/founder (Digital Equipment Corp)
Feb 20th - Robert Eugene Richards, Ill, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-48, 52, 56)
Feb 20th - Richard Matheson, American author
Feb 21st - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language)
Feb 22nd - Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
Feb 22nd - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
Feb 23rd - Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete)
Feb 24th - Reginald Freeson, British MP
Feb 24th - Jean Alexander, English actress
Feb 25th - Harvey McGregor, QC/warden (New College-Oxford)
Feb 26th - Arsene Souffriau, composer
Feb 26th - Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
Feb 26th - Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
Feb 27th - Peter Emery, British MP
Feb 27th - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
Feb 28th - Seymour Shifrin, composer
Feb 28th - Stanley Glasser, composer
Feb 28th - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author (My Life)
Mar 1st - Cesare Danova, Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas)
Mar 1st - Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner (1960-89)
Mar 1st - Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
Mar 2nd - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
Mar 3rd - James Ingram Merrill, US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
Mar 3rd - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
Mar 3rd - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003)
Co-founder of Amway Richard DeVos (Mar 4th) Mar 4th - Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
Mar 4th - James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
Mar 4th - Pascual Pérez (boxing), Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
Mar 4th - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
Mar 4th - Fran Warren, American singer, (d. 2013)
Mar 6th - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor (FRB)
Mar 6th - Andrzej Wajda, Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna)
Mar 6th - Ann Curtis, 400m/800m US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948), (d. 2012)
Mar 6th - Elwood H [Bud] Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971- )
Mar 6th - Jon Nordal, composer
Mar 6th - Miroslav Klega, composer
Mar 9th - Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
Mar 9th - Gerrit A Kooy, Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
Mar 10th - Marques Haynes, NBA hall of famer (Harlem Globetrotters)
Mar 11th - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor
US Fed Chairman & Economist Alan Greenspan (Mar 6th) Mar 11th - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
Mar 11th - Patricia Tindaole, England, architect
Mar 11th - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
Mar 12th - David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)