Famous Birthdays for October 26
Today's:
Domenico Scarlatti 1685 - Composer
Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803 - Architect, inventor (the hansom cab)
C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts)
Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller 1874 - Philanthropist: cofounder of New York Museum of Modern Art
H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner 1876 - Actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments)
Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich)
John S. (Shively) Knight 1894 - Reporter, editor, publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper)
Jack Sharkey 1902 - Boxer
Primo Carnera 1906 - Boxer
Mahalia Jackson 1911- Singer
Charlie Barnett 1913 - Musician (saxophone), bandleader
Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan, Jr.) 1914 - Actor (The Kid), first child to appear in a full-lenth movie
Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)
Neal Matthews 1929 - Musician (Jordanaires)
John Arden 1930
Rodney "Hot Rod" Hundley 1934 - Basketball player, sportscaster
Bob Hoskins 1942 - Actor (Hook, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Michael Piano 1944 - Singer (The Sandpipers)
Jaclyn Smith 1945 - Actress (TV: "The Bourne Identity," "Charlie’s Angels")
Keith Hopwood 1946 - Singer, musician (Herman's Hermits)
Pat Sajak 1946 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show)
Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York, U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008
Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah 1948 - Baseball player
Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers 1949 - Baseball player
Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove 1949 - Baseball player, manager
Chuck Foreman 1950 - Football player
Bootsy Collins 1951 - Musician
Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros 1951 - Baseball player
Maggie Roche 1951 - Musician (The Roches)
Keith Strickland 1953 - Musician (B-52s)
Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)
D.W. Moffett 1954
Rita Wilson 1958 - Actress (Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, Runaway Bride)
Dylan McDermott 1961 - Actor (TV: "The Practice," "Steel Magnolias")
Cary Elwes 1962 - Actor (Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights)
Marla Maples 1963
Natalie Merchant 1963 - Musician (10,000 Maniacs)
Keith Urban 1967 - Singer
Thomas Cavanagh 1968 - Actor (TV: Ed)
Rosemarie DeWitt 1971 - Actress ("The United States of Tara")
Anthony Rapp 1971 - Actor ("Rent")
Seth MacFarlane 1973- Writer, producer ("Family Guy")
Jon Heder 1977 - Actor ("Napoleon Dynamite")
Sasha Cohen 1984 - Figure skater
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