May 26

2023 Calendar

May 26 is the 146th day of the year (147th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

451 – Saint Vartan Mamikonian, Armenian warrior
604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
735 - Bede, English monk, historian and theologian (b. 672)
818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
1647 - Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672)
1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1828 - John Oxley, British officer and explorer (b. 1785)
1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1840 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1845 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1807)
1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1883 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1888 - Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812)
1895 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1822)

1901 – 2000

1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)
1914 - Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer and reformer (b. 1849)
1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
1926 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
1943 - Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer, organist and educator (b. 1864)
1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)
1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
1968 – Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937)
1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1969 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1889)
1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
1989 - Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1995 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)
1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)

From 2001

2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1928)
2005 - Krzysztof Nowak, Polish footballer (b. 1975)
2005 - Sangoulé Lamizana, President of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)
2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 – C. H. Patterson, American psychologist (b. 1912)
2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor (b. 1934)
2013 - Jack Vance, American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer (b. 1916)
2014 - Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, was once the world's heaviest man (b. 1965)
2015 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (b. 1926)
2015 - Les Johnson, Australian politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Dayton Waller, American politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Rocky Frisco, American pianist (b. 1937)
2015 - Bob Hornery, Australian actor (b. 1931)
2015 - Robert Craft, American astronomer (b. 1927)
2016 - Kazimierz Barburski, Polish fencer (b. 1942)
2016 - Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
2016 - Ted Dumitru, Romanian football manager (b. 1939)
2016 - Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1924)
2016 - Angela Paton, American actress (b. 1930)
2016 - Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess player (b. 1931)
2016 - Bob Williams, American football player (b. 1930)
2017 - Toni Bertorelli, Italian actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Laura Biagiotti, Italian fashion designer (b. 1943)
2017 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political scientist and diplomat (b. 1928)
2017 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932)
2018 - Pierre Bellemare, French television presenter, actor and radio personality (b. 1929)
2018 - Ted Dabney, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
2018 - Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931)
2018 - Svetlin Rusev, Bulgarian artist (b. 1933)
2018 - Antonio Pujía, Italian-Argentine sculptor (b. 1929)
2019 - Abdel Latif El Zein, Lebanese politician (b. 1932)
2019 - Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2019 - Ibrahim Lame, Nigerian educator and politician (b. 1953)
2019 - Bart Starr, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
2019 - Stephen Thorne, British actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime minister and Regent of Thailand (b. 1920)
2019 - Vittorio Zucconi, Italian-American journalist and writer (b. 1944)

Births

1901 – 1950

1904 – George Formby, British musician (d. 1961)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher (d. 2002)
1906 - Márcio Melo, Brazilian military officer and politician (d. 1991)
1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
1908 - Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese politician (d. 1976)
1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1994)
1909 – Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Mexican politician (d. 1992)
1910 - Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist (d. 1998)
1910 - Laurance Rockefeller, American billionaire (d. 2004)
1911 - Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (d. 1992)
1912 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (d. 1989)
1912 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (d. 1980)
1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1916 – Moondog, American musician, composer and poet (d. 1999)
1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress and activist (d. 2009)
1919 – Ruben Gonzalez, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1921 - Inge Borkh, German soprano (d. 2018)
1921 - Walter Laqueur, German-American historian and publicist (d. 2018)
1923 – James Arness, American actor (d. 2011)
1923 - Roy Dotrice, British actor (d. 2017)
1923 – Horst Tappert, German actor (d. 2008)
1925 - Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
1926 - Miles Davis, American trumpeter, composer and bandleader (d. 1991)
1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American assisted suicide advocate (d. 2011)
1929 - Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (d. 1998)
1933 - Edward Whittemore, American author (d. 1995)
1936 - Beth Whittall, Canadian swimmer (d. 2015)
1936 - David Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate, English politician
1937 – Paul Patton, former Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky
1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian writer, writer and playwright
1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian activist (d. 1989)
1939 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2015)
1940 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
1941 – Aldrich Ames, CIA counter-intelligence officer
1941 - Jim Dobbin, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
1944 – Sam Posey, American racing driver, TV commentator and writer
1945 - René Féret, French actor, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 2015)
1945 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer
1945 - Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician, 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2012)
1946 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
1946 - Simon Hoggart, English journalist (d. 2014)
1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
1949 - Jeremy Corbyn, British politician, leader of the Labour Party
1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer
1949 - Pam Grier, American actress
1949 - Anne McGuire, Scottish politician
1949 - Hank Williams, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1951 – 1975

1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (d. 2012)
1951 - Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and President of Real Madrid
1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British writer
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1956 – Lisa Niemi, American actress
1956 - Ricky Sbragia, Scottish footballer and manager
1957 - Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer and composer (d. 2013)
1958 - Howard Goodall, English composer
1959 - Ole Bornedal, Norwegian actor, director and producer
1961 - Tarsem Singh, Indian-American director
1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
1962 - Black, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1963 - Simon Armitage, English author, poet and playwright
1963 - Mary Nightingale, English news presenter
1964 - Valery Salov, Russian chess player
1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer
1964 - Paul Okalik, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Nunavut
1964 - Caitlin R. Kiernan, Irish-American paleontologist and author
1965 - Hazel Irvine, Scottish television presenter
1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
1966 - Shona Robison, Scottish politician
1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1968 - Pat Kenney, American baseball player, wrestler and agent
1969 - John Baird, Canadian politician
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka
1971 – Matt Stone, American animator and movie maker
1971 – Ivan O. Godfroid, writer
1972 – Patsy Palmer, English actress
1972 - Alan White, English drummer
1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
1975 - Nicki Lynn Aycox, American actress
1975 - Kwasi Kwarteng, British politician

From 1976

1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician
1978 - Dan Parks, Australian-Scottish rugby player
1978 - Jaheim, American singer
1979 - Amanda Bauer, American astronomer
1979 - Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1979 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (d. 2019)
1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player
1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 – Jason Manford, English comedian
1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1981 - Razvan Rat, Romanian footballer
1981 - Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
1983 - Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
1986 - Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Spanish-French actress
1986 - Matt Oivanen, Finnish volleyball player
1987 - Josh Thomas, Australian comedian, actor and writer
1988 - Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
1989 - Tomas Pekhart, Czech footballer
1989 - Amit Farkash, Canadian-Israeli actress
1991 - Amber Bondin, Maltese singer
1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress and dancer
1999 - Kerry Ingram, English actress
2001 - Megan Charpentier, Canadian actress

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day in Georgia and Guyana
Crown Prince's Birthday (Denmark)
Mother's Day (Poland)
National Sorry Day (Australia)
National Book Day (Uruguay)