June 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#98 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 26 birthdays
Lord Kelvin · British physicist and engineer1825
Pearl S. Buck · Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary1892
Peter Lorre · Hungarian and American actor1904
Salvador Allende · 28th president of Chile1908
Babe Didrikson Zaharias · American golfer and athlete1911
Eleanor Parker · American actress1922
Claudio Abbado · Italian conductor1933
Robert Coleman Richardson · American physicist1937
Chris Isaak · American rock musician1956
Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Russian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch1963
Paolo Maldini · Italian association football player1968
Jovenel Moïse · Former President of Haiti1968
Paul Thomas Anderson · American filmmaker1970
Chris O'Donnell · American actor1970
Sean Hayes · American actor1970
Ryan Tedder · American singer, songwriter and record producer1979
Jason Schwartzman · American actor and musician1980
Aubrey Plaza · American actress, producer and comedian1984
Jennette McCurdy · American writer and former actress1992
Ariana Grande · American singer, songwriter, and actress1993
On this day in history
1918World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of German troops.
2003The U.S. Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in the country in the landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas.
2013The U.S. Supreme Court granted federal recognition to same-sex marriage when it overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.
2015The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the right of same-sex couples to marry is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
1844Julia Gardiner married U.S. President John Tyler at the Church of the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady.
1955The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1997J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter fantasy novel series, was released.
2010A G20 summit, the largest and most expensive security operation in Canadian history, began in downtown Toronto.
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