Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 26
Births
edit- 1676 - Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
- 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
- 1875 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
- 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
- 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
- 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, first female U.S. Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2011)
- 1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
- 1965 - Chris Burke, American actor
- 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, American actor (pictured)
Deaths
edit- 1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
- Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
- Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
- John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
- Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
- 1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter
- 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- 1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
- 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
- 1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German anti-Nazi diplomat (executed) (b. 1909)
- 1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
- 1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
- 2006 - Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)