Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 26

Births

• 1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
• 1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
• 1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
• 1877 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
• 1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
• 1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
• 1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (pictured) (d. 1965)
• 1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
• 1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
• 1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer (d. 2011)
• 1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
• 1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)
• 1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
• 1947 - Lynn Anderson, American country-pop music singer (d. 2015)
• 1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player

Deaths

• 1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
• 1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
• 1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
• 1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)