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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Eddie Albert
Actor
22-Apr-1906 26-May-2005 Oliver on Green Acres
St. Augustine of Canterbury
Religion
? 26-May-604 AD First Archbishop of Canterbury
Bayezid II
Royalty
3-Dec-1447 26-May-1512 Ottoman Sultan, 1481-1512
George Brent
Actor
15-Mar-1899 26-May-1979 The Great Lie
Lionel Conacher
Hockey
24-May-1900 26-May-1954 Canadian All-Around Athlete
Arrigo Caterino Davila
Historian
30-Oct-1576 26-May-1631 Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia
Orvil Dryfoos
Publisher
8-Nov-1912 26-May-1963 New York Times Publisher, 1961-63
King Edmund I
Royalty
921 AD 26-May-946 AD King of England 939-46 AD
Edsel Ford
Business
6-Nov-1893 26-May-1943 President of Ford, 1919-43
Friz Freleng
Cartoonist
21-Aug-1906 26-May-1995 The Pink Panther
Julian Grenfell
Poet
30-Mar-1888 26-May-1915 Into Battle
Edmond T. Gréville
Film Director
20-Jun-1906 26-May-1966 Beat Girl
Anne Haney
Actor
4-Mar-1934 26-May-2001 Mrs. Doubtfire
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
26-Sep-1889 26-May-1976 Being and Time
J. C. Higginbotham
Jazz Musician
11-May-1906 26-May-1973 Jazz trombonist
Little Willie John
Singer
15-Oct-1937 26-May-1968 Fever
Eugene Jolas
Editor
26-Oct-1894 26-May-1952 transition
Art Linkletter
TV Personality
17-Jul-1912 26-May-2010 Kids Say the Darndest Things
John Longden
Actor
11-Nov-1900 26-May-1971 Quatermass 2
Charles Horace Mayo
Doctor
19-Jul-1865 26-May-1939 Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic
James McClatchy
Publisher
17-Dec-1920 26-May-2006 Former Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers
Ida McKinley
First Lady
8-Jun-1847 26-May-1907 Wife of US President William McKinley
Mehmed I
Royalty
1389 26-May-1421 Ottoman Sultan, 1413-21
Philip Neri
Religion
21-Jul-1515 26-May-1595 Congregation of the Oratory
Joseph Medill Patterson
Business
6-Jan-1879 26-May-1946 Founder of New York Daily News
Samuel Pepys
Author
23-Feb-1633 26-May-1703 London diarist
Sydney Pollack
Film Director
1-Jul-1934 26-May-2008 Tootsie
Jacob A. Riis
Journalist
3-May-1849 26-May-1914 How the Other Half Lives
Richard Rober
Actor
14-May-1910 26-May-1952 Jet Pilot
Jimmie Rodgers
Country Musician
8-Sep-1897 26-May-1933 Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Paul Sacher
Conductor
28-Apr-1906 26-May-1999 Founder, Basler Kammerorchester
Ted Schroeder
Tennis
20-Jul-1921 26-May-2006 Winner of 1949 Wimbledon
Sonny Sharrock
Guitarist
27-Aug-1940 26-May-1994 Free jazz guitarist
Al Simmons
Baseball
22-May-1902 26-May-1956 Lifetime batting average .334
Thomas Southerne
Playwright
1660 26-May-1746 The Persian Prince
Albert Spalding
Violinist
15-Aug-1888 26-May-1953 American violin virtuoso
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Doctor
30-Oct-1857 26-May-1904 Tourette's syndrome
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Historian
31-Jul-1909 26-May-1999 Conservative ideologue




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