Famous people born on 26 June

• Pearl S. BuckChinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary · 1892–1973
  80 yrs
• Salvador Allende28th president of Chile (1908–1973 · 1908–1973
  65 yrs
• William Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinBritish physicist and engineer · 1825–1907
  82 yrs
• Charles Messier18th- and 19th-century French astronomer · 1730–1817
  86 yrs
• Jovenel MoïseFormer President of Haiti · 1968–2021
  53 yrs
• Robert Coleman Richardson ↗American physicist · 1937–2013
  75 yrs
• Claudio Abbado ↗Italian conductor · 1933–2014
  80 yrs
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ↗Bengali writer, poet and journalist · 1838–1894
  55 yrs
• Peter Lorre ↗Hungarian and American actor · 1904–1964
  59 yrs
• Sławomir Mrożek ↗Polish dramatist and writer · 1930–2013
  83 yrs
• John V Palaiologos ↗Byzantine emperor · 1332–1391
  58 yrs
• Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ↗Grand Duchess of Russia (1899–1918); third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) · 1899–1918
  19 yrs
• Aimé Césaire ↗Martinican writer, poet and politician · 1913–2008
  94 yrs
• Aleksandr Zakharchenko ↗Head and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic · 1976–2018
  42 yrs
• Eleanor Parker ↗American actress · 1922–2013
  91 yrs
• Bartolomé Mitre ↗President of Argentina (1821-1906), writer, politician · 1821–1906
  84 yrs
• Babe Didrikson Zaharias ↗American golfer and athlete · 1911–1956
  45 yrs
• Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardinia ↗King of Sardinia · 1726–1796
  70 yrs
• Maurice Wilkes ↗British computer scientist · 1913–2010
  97 yrs
• Antoine de Rivarol ↗French writer · 1753–1801
  47 yrs
• George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ↗British aristocrat · 1866–1923
  56 yrs
• Martin Andersen Nexø ↗Danish writer · 1869–1954
  84 yrs
• Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev ↗Soviet cosmonaut · 1925–1970
  44 yrs
• Willy Messerschmitt ↗German aircraft designer and manufacturer · 1898–1978
  80 yrs
• Robert Borden ↗8th prime minister of Canada · 1854–1937
  82 yrs
• Adolf Bastian ↗German anthropologist · 1826–1905
  78 yrs
• Lyman Spitzer ↗American astronomer · 1914–1997
  82 yrs
• Virginia Satir ↗American psychotherapist & non-fiction author · 1916–1988
  72 yrs
• Hedvig Sophia of Sweden ↗Swedish princess · 1681–1708
  27 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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