September 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#9 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 26 birthdays
Christian X · King of Denmark and Iceland1870
Archibald Hill · English physiologist and biophysicist1886
T. S. Eliot · US-British poet1888
Martin Heidegger · German philosopher1889
Hans Reichenbach · German–American philosopher1891
Pope Paul VI · Pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 19781897
George Gershwin · American composer and pianist1898
George Raft · American actor1901
Manmohan Singh · Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician1932
Winnie Mandela · South African activist and politician1936
Andrea Dworkin · American feminist writer1946
Olivia Newton-John · British and Australian singer1948
Linda Hamilton · American actress1956
Petro Poroshenko · President of Ukraine from 2014 to 20191965
Jim Caviezel · American actor1968
Michael Ballack · German association football player1976
Serena Williams · American tennis player1981
Christina Milian · American actress and singer1981
Ricardo Quaresma · Portuguese association football player1983
Kim Yo Jong · North Korean politician and diplomat, sister of Kim Jong Un1987
On this day in history
1944World War II: The Soviet Red Army completed the Tallinn offensive, driving German forces out of Estonia.
1968The Beatles completed the recording of John Lennon's song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", regarded by all the band members as their favourite on the album The Beatles.
1983The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the trophy.
2008Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the English Channel.
1917World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Battle of Passchendaele, began near Ypres, Belgium.
1919The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine defeated the White Russian Volunteer Army at the Battle of Peregonovka.
1928The Republic of China adopted Gwoyeu Romatzyh (designer pictured) as the official system for romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
1933As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which became a nickname for FBI agents.
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