Famous people born on 26 December

• Mao Zedong1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China · 1893–1976
  82 yrs
• Charles BabbageEnglish mathematician, philosopher, and engineer · 1791–1871
  79 yrs
• Henry MillerAmerican novelist · 1891–1980
  88 yrs
• Yun Ch'ihoKorean independence activist · 1864–1945
  80 yrs
• Alejo CarpanterCuban-French writer and musicologist · 1904–1980
  75 yrs
• Norman Angell ↗English politician · 1872–1967
  94 yrs
• Mary Somerville ↗Scottish scientist, writer and polymath · 1780–1872
  91 yrs
• Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma ↗President of Togo from 1967 to 2005 · 1935–2005
  69 yrs
• Thomas Gray ↗English poet and classical scholar · 1716–1771
  54 yrs
• Phil Spector ↗American record producer · 1939–2021
  81 yrs
• Edward C. Prescott ↗American economist · 1940–2022
  81 yrs
• Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ↗Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg · 1803–1882
  78 yrs
• John VIII Palaiologos ↗Byzantine emperor · 1392–1448
  55 yrs
• Teruki Miyamoto ↗Japanese association football player · 1940–2000
  59 yrs
• John Horton Conway ↗English mathematician · 1937–2020
  82 yrs
• Maurice Utrillo ↗French painter · 1883–1955
  71 yrs
• Richard Widmark ↗American actor and producer · 1914–2008
  93 yrs
• Ernst Moritz Arndt ↗German historian, writer and politician · 1769–1860
  90 yrs
• John Rackham ↗English pirate · 1682–1720
  37 yrs
• Oldřich Nejedlý ↗Czech footballer · 1909–1990
  80 yrs
• Bernard Germain de Lacépède ↗French naturalist · 1756–1825
  68 yrs
• Julie Clary ↗Queen consort of Naples and Spain · 1771–1845
  73 yrs
• Elton Mayo ↗Australian psychologist and sociologist · 1880–1949
  68 yrs
• Jean Ferrat ↗French singer-songwriter and poet · 1930–2010
  79 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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