Famous people born on 26 August

• Mother TeresaAlbanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary · 1910–1997
  87 yrs
• Antoine LavoisierFrench nobleman and chemist · 1743–1794
  50 yrs
• Guillaume ApollinaireFrench poet · 1880–1918
  38 yrs
• Julio CortázarArgentine writer and translator · 1914–1984
  69 yrs
• James FranckGerman-American physicist · 1882–1964
  81 yrs
• Charles MartelFrankish military and political leader · AD 688–741
  53 yrs
• Katherine JohnsonAfrican-American mathematician · 1918–2020
  101 yrs
• Charles RichetFrench physiologist and parapsychologist · 1850–1935
  85 yrs
• Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and GothaConsort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 · 1819–1861
  42 yrs
• Yun Po-sun ↗2nd President of South Korea · 1897–1990
  92 yrs
• Johann Heinrich Lambert ↗German mathematician, physicist and astronomer · 1728–1777
  49 yrs
• Michael Jeter ↗American actor · 1952–2003
  50 yrs
• Prem Tinsulanonda ↗Former Regent of Thailand · 1920–2019
  98 yrs
• Lee de Forest ↗American inventor · 1873–1961
  87 yrs
• Daphne Caruana Galizia ↗Maltese journalist and blogger · 1964–2017
  53 yrs
• Benedict Anderson ↗American political scientist · 1936–2015
  79 yrs
• Albert B. Sabin ↗Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines · 1906–1993
  86 yrs
• Christopher Isherwood ↗British-American novelist · 1904–1986
  81 yrs
• John Buchan ↗Scottish author and politician · 1875–1940
  64 yrs
• Frederick V of the Palatinate ↗Elector Palatine (1610–23), and King of Bohemia (1619–20), the Winter King; died 1632 · 1596–1632
  36 yrs
• Jules Romains ↗French writer · 1885–1972
  86 yrs
• Bolesław III Wrymouth ↗Duke of Poland between 1107 and 1138 · 1086–1138
  52 yrs
• Gennady Yanayev ↗Vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991 · 1937–2010
  73 yrs
• Geraldine Ferraro ↗American politician · 1935–2011
  75 yrs
• Agostino Carracci ↗Bolognese painter of the Baroque · 1557–1602
  44 yrs
• Boris Pahor ↗Slovenian writer · 1913–2022
  108 yrs
• Michel Micombero ↗President of Burundi · 1940–1983
  42 yrs

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