July 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#68 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 26 birthdays
George Bernard Shaw · Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist1856
Aldous Huxley · English writer and philosopher1894
Jason Robards · American actor1922
Stanley Kubrick · American filmmaker1928
Francesco Cossiga · 8th President of Italy1928
Edmund Phelps · American economist1933
John Howard · Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 20071939
Mick Jagger · British singer and songwriter1943
Helen Mirren · British actress1945
Thaksin Shinawatra · Prime Minister of Thailand form 2001 to 20061949
Asif Ali Zardari · President of Pakistan1955
Kevin Spacey · American actor1959
Sandra Bullock · American actress and film producer1964
Anna Rita Del Piano · Italian actress and theater director1966
Jason Statham · English actor1967
Kate Beckinsale · English actress1973
Liz Truss · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 20221975
Jacinda Ardern · Prime Minister of New Zealand1980
Taylor Momsen · American actress, singer and model1993
Elizabeth Gillies · American actress and singer1993
On this day in history
1968After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South Vietnamese military court for illicit currency transactions.
1990The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
2012The New Irish Republican Army was formed from a merger of a number of dissident republican militant groups.
2016Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
1890In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
1908United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1941World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
1953In Short Creek, Arizona, police conducted a mass arrest of approximately 400 Mormon fundamentalists for polygamy.
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