Famous people born on 26 March

• Robert FrostAmerican poet · 1874–1963
  88 yrs
• Tennessee WilliamsAmerican playwright · 1911–1983
  71 yrs
• Syngman RheePresident of South Korea from 1948 to 1960 · 1875–1965
  90 yrs
• Paul ErdősHungarian mathematician · 1913–1996
  83 yrs
• Viktor FranklAustrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author · 1905–1997
  92 yrs
• Leonard NimoyAmerican actor · 1931–2015
  83 yrs
• Alan ArkinAmerican actor, filmmaker · 1934–2023
  89 yrs
• James CaanAmerican actor · 1940–2022
  82 yrs
• Joseph Campbell ↗American mythologist, writer and lecturer · 1904–1987
  83 yrs
• Pierre Boulez ↗French composer, conductor and writer · 1925–2016
  90 yrs
• Christian B. Anfinsen ↗American biochemist · 1916–1995
  79 yrs
• James IV of Scotland ↗King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513 · 1473–1513
  40 yrs
• Bernard Katz ↗German-British biophysicist · 1911–2003
  92 yrs
• Sandra Day O'Connor ↗American lawyer and jurist · 1930–2023
  93 yrs
• Güyük Khan ↗Third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire · 1206–1248
  42 yrs
• Palmiro Togliatti ↗Former leader of the Italian Communist Party · 1893–1964
  71 yrs
• Fuad I of Egypt ↗Egyptian former King and former Sultan · 1868–1936
  68 yrs
• John Langshaw Austin ↗English philosopher · 1911–1960
  48 yrs
• Edward Bellamy ↗American author and socialist · 1850–1898
  48 yrs
• Benjamin Thompson ↗American-born British physicist and inventor · 1753–1814
  61 yrs
• Sterling Hayden ↗American actor · 1916–1986
  70 yrs
• William Westmoreland ↗United States Army general · 1914–2005
  91 yrs
• Alfred Edward Housman ↗British classical scholar and poet · 1859–1936
  77 yrs
• Emperor Taizu of Song ↗Founding emperor of the Song Dynasty · AD 927–976
  49 yrs
• Marie Louise d'Orléans ↗Queen consort of Spain · 1662–1689
  26 yrs
• Rudolf Dassler ↗German businessman · 1898–1974
  76 yrs
• Mahadevi Varma ↗Indian Hindi writer and poet · 1907–1987
  80 yrs
• Michel Bréal ↗French philologist · 1832–1915
  83 yrs
• David Amess ↗British politician · 1952–2021
  69 yrs
• Emilio Fernández ↗Mexican film director and actor · 1904–1986
  82 yrs
• Franz Stangl ↗Austrian-born SS officer, commandant at first Sobibór extermination camp and then Treblinka extermination camp · 1908–1971
  63 yrs

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