March 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#276 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 26 birthdays
Syngman Rhee · President of South Korea from 1948 to 19601875
Joseph Campbell · American mythologist, writer and lecturer1904
Viktor Frankl · Austrian Holocaust survivor1905
Paul Erdős · Hungarian mathematician1913
Christian B. Anfinsen · American biochemist1916
Sandra Day O'Connor · American lawyer and jurist1930
Leonard Nimoy · American actor1931
Alan Arkin · American actor, filmmaker1934
Nancy Pelosi · American politician1940
James Caan · American actor1940
Richard Dawkins · English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author1941
Erica Jong · American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic1942
Bob Woodward · American investigative journalist1943
Diana Ross · American singer and actress1944
Steven Tyler · American singer1948
Alan Silvestri · American composer1950
Gary Ruvkun · American geneticist1952
Leslie Mann · American actress1972
Larry Page · American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur1973
Keira Knightley · British actress1985
On this day in history
1942The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.
1979Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
1982A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
2009A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
1967Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
1970South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
1974A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.
1975The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
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