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100 people born today: July 26
Páll á Reynatúgvu, is a Faroese politician, and former football player, currently serving as a... more » | |
Karyne and Sarah Steben, also known as the Steben Twins, are famous worldwide for their... more » | |
Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio is a Brazilian intellectual and political activist, currently... more » | |
Ji Yun, also known as Ji Xiaolan or Ji Chunfan was an influential scholar of Qing Dynasty China... more » | |
Vadim Vladimirovich Brovtsev is a Russian businessman who was Prime Minister of the Republic of... more » | |
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best... more » | |
Thaksin Shinawatra is a Thai business tycoon turned politician. He founded Advanced Info... more » | |
Vazha-Pshavela is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili, a classic... more » | |
Iolanda Chen is a retired Russian athlete. She started as a pentathlete, but decided to... more » | |
Rudolph Carl Gorman was a Native American artist of the Navajo Nation. Referred to as "the... more » | |
Alexander Marcus is a German music producer. He has become popular throughout Germany after a... more » | |
Met Anne and Margot in the Jewish Lyceum, Westerbork, and Auschwitz. Born in Amsterdam,... more » | |
Kurt Mahler FRS was a mathematician. He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and... more » | |
Godwin von Brumowski was the most successful fighter ace of the Austro-Hungarian Air Force... more » | |
John Wesley Emerson was an American lawyer, American Civil War commander, Missouri Circuit Court... more » | |
Maximilian Hecker is a German musician from Berlin, known for ethereal pop or dream pop music,... more » | |
Ji-Young Kim is a South Korean prima ballerina and is currently a principal dancer with the... more » | |
Andy Timmons is an American guitarist who has played in the bands Danger Danger, Pawn Kings, and... more » | |
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band... more » | |
Frances "Fanny" Elizabeth Fitzwilliam was the actress daughter of Robert Copeland, manager of... more » | |
Wolfgang-Felix Magath is a former German football central midfielder and current manager. Until... more » | |
Fernando Corona is a film score composer. more » | |
Gheorghe Manu was a Romanian Army general, artillery inspector and statesman. After he finished... more » | |
Aage Storstein was a Norwegian artist. Aage Storstein was born in Stavanger in the county of... more » | |
Count András Bethlen de Bethlen was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of... more » | |
Željko Sopić is a retired Croatian football midfielder. Sopić started his professional career... more » | |
Orange Judd was an American agricultural chemist, editor, and publisher. more » | |
Arantza Quiroga Cía is a spanish politician. She was President of the Basque Parliament between... more » | |
Lala Hasanova Azerbaijani-Russian science fiction writer of Jewish ancestry. Her first novel was... more » | |
Gaël Clichy is a French footballer who plays for Manchester City and the France national... more » | |
Kjersti Alveberg, born 26 July 1948, is a Norwegian choreographer and dancer. Over the last 30... more » | |
Oscar Baylin Goodman is an American lawyer and politician. He was the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada... more » | |
Lucien Wercollier was a sculptor from Luxembourg. While he worked primarily in bronze and... more » | |
Kalimba Kadjaly Marichal Ibar is a Mexican singer and voice actor. more » | |
John Winston Howard, OM AC SSI, is an Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime... more » | |
Franjo Marković was a Croatian philosopher and writer. He was an academician, the first... more » | |
Asa Drury was an American Baptist minister and educator primarily teaching at Granville Literary... more » | |
Nana Visitor is an American actress, known for playing Kira Nerys in the television series Star... more » | |
Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was a Mexican-American undercover agent for the United States Drug... more » | |
Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern is a New Zealand politician. A member of the Labour Party, she was... more » | |
Ibne Safi was born on July 26, 1928, in the village of Nara in Allahabad District, U.P., India... more » | |
Asif Ali Zardari is the 11th and current President of Pakistan. He is co-chairman of the ruling... more » | |
Brandon John Morrow is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays of... more » | |
Oliver M. Wozencraft was a prominent early American settler in California. He had substantial... more » | |
Icarus is a professional wrestler, who performs primarily in the Chikara professional wrestling... more » | |
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and a prominent member of the famous Huxley family... more » | |
Aram Jules Pothier was an American politician of French Canadian origin, the 51st and 55th... more » | |
Samuel Beam, better known by his stage and recording name Iron & Wine, is an American... more » | |
Eberhard Burger, OBE is a German civil engineer. He is particularly active in Dresden,... more » | |
Sir Yuet-keung Kan, GBE, JP was a Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer who was successively... more » | |
Gaetano de Lai was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was part of the Roman... more » | |
Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, CM OOnt, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story... more » | |
Vladimír Mečiar is a former Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of... more » | |
Elena Vladimirovna Kustarova is a Russian former ice dancer and currently a coach. She is a... more » | |
Vladan Vićević is a retired Serbian-born Salvadoran international football player. more » | |
Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael is an Israeli military scientist, general and ex-politician. He... more » | |
Josef Kořenský was a Czech traveller and writer. Kořenský was son of a farmer. Since young age... more » | |
Fernando Pacheco, current lead singer and trombonist for the ska/rock/reggae band Pimpbot, and... more » | |
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie "Gracie" Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally... more » | |
Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet OBE, known as "JEK", was a British cricketer,... more » | |
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics... more » | |
Cecil Farris Bryant was the 34th Governor of Florida. He also served on the United States... more » | |
Ignacio Varchausky is a double bass player, music producer and founder of Orquesta El Arranque... more » | |
Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer. more » | |
Rich Vogler was a champion sprint car and midget car driver. He was nicknamed "Rapid Rich". He... more » | |
Alan Gordon "Al" Anderson is an American guitarist, singer, and songwiter. Between 1971 and the... more » | |
Joanne Brackeen is an American jazz pianist and music educator. more » | |
Mugdha Godse is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. A former model, Godse was a... more » | |
Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar, near the monastery of Loyola. more » | |
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian Empire-born writer who chronicled the lives of Russian... more » | |
Ora Graves was a sailor in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for his... more » | |
Keith Bostic is a computer programmer from the United States. In 1986, Bostic joined the... more » | |
Vladan Savić is a Montenegrin footballer, who, as of 2007 was playing for Kecskeméti TE. He... more » | |
Ananías Maidana was a teacher and politician in Paraguay. For years he was a political prisoner... more » | |
Abel González Chávez is a Colombian radio/television host. Since 1996, González has hosted a... more » | |
Noah Martin, born in Epsom, New Hampshire to Samuel and Sally Martin. Noah graduated from... more » | |
Stanislaus of Szczepanów, or Stanisław Szczepanowski, was a Bishop of Kraków known chiefly for... more » | |
Auguste Marie François Beernaert Auguste Marie François Beernaert was the 14th Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to... more » | |
Joaquín Antonio Benoit Peña is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He... more » | |
Gheorghe Ghimpu was a Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union. more » | |
Yasmine Pahlavi is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the former Imperial State... more » | |
Curt Herzstark was an Austrian engineer. During World War II, Curt Herzstark's plans for a... more » | |
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg was queen-consort of Denmark and Norway from 1597 to 1612 as the... more » | |
Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck was a German botanist and pharmacologist who was a... more » | |
Buddy Arrington is a retired NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup driver. more » | |
Nan Wood Graham was the sister of painter Grant Wood. She is best known as the model for the... more » | |
Augustus Noble Hand was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the... more » | |
Prince Talal bin Muhammad is a member of the Jordanian royal family, the eldest son of Prince... more » | |
Keiko Matsui, born in Tokyo, Japan as Keiko Doi, is a Japanese smooth jazz/jazz fusion/new age/... more » | |
Kyriakos Ioannou is a Cypriot high jumper. more » | |
Joseph Leynard Smith is an American former professional basketball player who last played at... more » | |
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is a German politician of the libertarian Free Democratic... more » | |
RaDene Rawson Hatfield is the daughter of former Utah State Legislator and last Democrat... more » | |
Yelizaveta Yakovlevna Tarakhovskaya was a Russian poet, playwright, translator, and author of... more » | |
Gilad Hochman is an Israeli classical music composer. Gilad Hochman was born to an Odessa native... more » | |
Ewelina Saszenko is a Polish-Lithuanian jazz singer, who was born and lives in Lithuania. She... more » | |
Ekaterina Volzhina was the spouse of Maxim Gorky. more » | |
Dr. Zaza Tsotniashvili is the rector of Gori University in Gori, Georgia. more » | |
Andy Martin is a musician, lyricist and writer who lives in London, England. more » | |
Kenneth George Cunningham is an Australian radio personality and former cricketer and football... more » |