December 26

December 26 – Famous Birthdays:

1900 – Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG (d. 1993) [2]
1901 – Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (d. 1941)
1902 – Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
1903 – Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
1904 – Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (d. 1980)
1905 – William Loeb III, American publisher (d. 1981)
1907 – Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1908 – Ralph Hill, American runner (d. 1994)
1909 – Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1910 – Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (d. 2003)
1910 – Marguerite Churchill, American actress (d. 2000)
1912 – Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (d. 1962)
1913 – Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
1915 – Rolf Botvid, Swedish actor and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1918 – Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011)
1918 – Georgios Rallis, Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1921 – John Severin, American illustrator (d. 2012)
1921 – Steve Allen, American actor, singer, talk show host, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1922 – Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2013)
1924 – Frank Broyles, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2017)
1926 – Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
1927 – Denis Gifford, English journalist and historian (d. 2000)
1927 – Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1927 – Stu Miller, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1927 – Denis Quilley, English actor (d. 2003)
1929 – Kathleen Crowley, American actress (d. 2017)
1929 – Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-French singer and actress
1930 – Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2010)
1930 – Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1930 – Donald Moffat, English-American actor
1933 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and voice actor
1935 – Abdul “Duke” Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops)
1935 – Rohan Kanhai, Guyanese cricketer
1935 – Norm Ullman, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Peep Jänes, Estonian architect
1936 – Trevor Taylor, English race car driver (d. 2010)
1937 – John Horton Conway, English mathematician, known for Conway’s Game of Life
1938 – Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
1938 – Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (d. 2013)
1938 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1938 – Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1939 – Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter
1939 – Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer
1940 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1941 – Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1942 – Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala
1942 – Catherine Coulter, American author
1942 – Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California
1944 – William Ayers, American academic and activist
1945 – John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist, created America’s Most Wanted
1946 – Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician
1946 – Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and academic
1947 – James T. Conway, American general
1947 – Jean Echenoz, French author
1947 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
1947 – Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player
1947 – Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic
1948 – Candy Crowley, American journalist
1949 – José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 – Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1950 – Mario Mendoza, Mexican baseball player and manager
1953 – Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic
1953 – Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia
1953 – Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager
1953 – Henning Schmitz, German drummer
1954 – Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
1954 – Ozzie Smith, American baseball player and sportscaster
1955 – Evan Bayh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indiana
1956 – David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host
1957 – Dermot Murnaghan, English-Northern Irish journalist and game show host
1958 – Adrian Newey, English aerodynamicist and engineer
1959 – Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer and politician
1959 – Kōji Morimoto, Japanese animator and director
1959 – Hans Nielsen, Danish motorcycle racer
1960 – Keith Martin Ball, American mathematician and academic
1960 – Ruud Kaiser, Dutch footballer and manager
1960 – Jim Toomey, American cartoonist
1960 – Cem Uzan, Turkish businessman and politician
1961 – Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
1961 – John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
1962 – Mark Starr, English wrestler (d. 2013)
1963 – Craig Teitzel, Australian rugby league player
1963 – Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer
1964 – Elizabeth Kostova, American author
1966 – Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Tim Legler, American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Jay Yuenger, American guitarist and producer
1968 – Matt Zoller Seitz, American film critic and author
1969 – Isaac Viciosa, Spanish runner
1970 – James Mercer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Jared Leto, American actor and musician
1971 – Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
1971 – Tatiana Sorokko, Russian-American model and journalist
1972 – Esteban Fuertes, Argentinian footballer
1972 – Robert Muchamore, English author
1973 – Paulo Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player
1973 – Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Japanese baseball player
1973 – Steve Prescott, English rugby player (d. 2013)
1974 – Joshua John Miller, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1975 – Chris Calaguio, Filipino basketball player
1975 – Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
1975 – María Vasco, Spanish race walker
1976 – Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach
1977 – Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer and manager
1977 – Adrienn Hegedűs, Hungarian tennis player
1978 – Karel Rüütli, Estonian lawyer and politician
1978 – Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
1979 – Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
1979 – Craig Wing, Australian rugby player
1980 – Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
1980 – Ceylan Ertem, Turkish singer
1981 – Pablo Canavosio, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1981 – Nikolai Nikolaeff, Australian actor
1982 – Kenneth Darby, American football player
1982 – Noel Hunt, Irish footballer
1982 – Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
1983 – Yu Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter
1984 – Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer
1984 – Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player
1984 – Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
1985 – Beth Behrs, American actress
1986 – Hugo Lloris, French footballer
1986 – Kit Harington, English actor
1986 – Selen Soyder, Turkish actress and beauty queen
1989 – Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
1990 – Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
1990 – Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
1990 – Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
1990 – Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
1991 – Eden Sher, American actress
1992 – Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
1992 – Jade Thirlwall, English singer of girl group Little Mix
1994 – Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer