November 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#352 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 26 birthdays
Ellen G. White · American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church1827
Maria Feodorovna · Empress consort of Russia1847
Ferdinand de Saussure · Swiss linguist and philosopher1857
Maud of Wales · British princess, Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 19381869
Willis Carrier · American inventor1876
Norbert Wiener · American mathematician1894
Karl Ziegler · German chemist1898
Samuel Reshevsky · American chess player1911
Frederik Pohl · American science fiction writer and editor1919
Charles M. Schulz · American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts"1922
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel · Argentine activist, architect and sculptor1931
Tina Turner · American-born Swiss singer and songwriter1939
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi · Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 20091939
Marilynne Robinson · American novelist and essayist1943
Elizabeth Blackburn · Australian-American biological researcher1948
Peter Facinelli · American actor1973
DJ Khaled · American DJ and rapper1975
Shu Kurata · Japanese association football player1988
Rita Ora · English-Albanian singer and actress1990
Danny Welbeck · English association football player1990
On this day in history
1842The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
1986Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
2000George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
2011In a friendly-fire incident, a skirmish occurred between U.S.-led NATO forces and Pakistani security forces at two military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.
1942World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1968Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1977A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.
1983Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
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