December 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#361 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 26 birthdays
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald · Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg1803
Yun Ch'iho · Korean independence activist1864
Henry Miller · American novelist1891
Mao Zedong · 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's1893
Alejo Carpentier · Cuban-French writer and musicologist1904
Richard Widmark · American actor and producer1914
Martin Cooper · American engineer, father of mobile phone1928
Gnassingbé Eyadéma · President of Togo from 1967 to 20051935
Phil Spector · American record producer1939
Edward C. Prescott · American economist1940
Teruki Miyamoto · Japanese association football player1940
José Ramos-Horta · 2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate1949
Toomas Hendrik Ilves · Estonian politician and diplomat, fourth president of Estonia1953
Lars Ulrich · Danish musician1963
Jared Leto · American actor, singer, musician and songwriter1971
Jo Jung-suk · South Korean actor1980
Hugo Lloris · French footballer1986
Kit Harington · English actor1986
Aaron Ramsey · Welsh association football player and manager1990
Denis Cheryshev · Russian footballer1990
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou began with Confederate defenders engaging Union forces who were attempting to capture the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1919American baseball player Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, beginning the 84-year-long "Curse of the Bambino".
1946American gangster Bugsy Siegel opened The Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, the oldest casino still in operation on the Las Vegas Strip.
1996Six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
1963The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1966The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1998Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
2025Israel recognises Somaliland as an independent state, becoming the first country to do so.
Born on December 26? Add your year.
Get your full results: day of the week, moon phase, #1 song and more.