26 August
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1676 - Robert Walpole, British prime minister in 1721-1742 († 1745)
- 1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon († 1810)
- 1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist († 1794)
- 1873 - Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube († 1961)
- 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, art critic († 1918)
- 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector († 1979)
- 1900 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor († 1980)
- 1901 - General Maxwell Taylor, soldier († 1987)
- 1904 - Christopher Isherwood, writer († 1986)
- 1906 - Albert Sabin, polio researcher († 1993)
- 1909 - Jim Davis, actor († 1981)
- 1921 - Benjamin Bradlee, journalist
- 1922 - Irving R. Levine, journalist
- 1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1984
- 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director
- 1944 - Richard Alexander Walter Windsor, Duke of Gloucester
- 1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer
- 1952 - Michael Jeter, actor († 2003)
- 1960 - Branford Marsalis, saxophonist, bandleader
- 1980 - Macaulay Culkin, actor
Deaths
- 1278 - Premysl Ottokar II
- 1850 - Louis-Philippe of France
- 1930 - Lon Chaney, actor
- 1945 - Franz Werfel, writer
- 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator
- 1975 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1977 - H.A. Rey, author
- 1978 - Charles Boyer, actor
- 1979 - Mika Waltari, author
- 1980 - Tex Avery, cartoonist
- 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
- 1984 - Truman Capote, author
- 1986 - Ted Knight, actor
- 1989 - Irving Stone, author
Holidays and observances
See Also:
August 25 - August 27 - July 26 - September 26 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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