The 238th day of the year, the 239th in a leap year
Born on 26 August
Every 26 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 26 August in any year.
Which weekday 26 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 August falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 26 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,780 babies were born on 26 August in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 280th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 26 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mother Teresa | 1910–1997 | Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary |
| Antoine Lavoisier | 1743–1794 | French nobleman and chemist |
| Chris Pine | 1980– | American actor |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880–1918 | French poet |
| Robert Walpole | 1676–1745 | British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford; born 26 August in the Julian calendar, which is 5 September in the Gregorian |
| Julio Cortázar | 1914–1984 | Argentine writer and translator |
| James Franck | 1882–1964 | German-American physicist |
| Katherine Johnson | 1918–2020 | African-American mathematician |
| Macaulay Culkin | 1980– | American actor and singer |
| Melissa McCarthy | 1970– | American actress and comedian |
| Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1819–1861 | Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 |
| Yun Po-sun | 1897–1990 | 2nd President of South Korea |
| Thalía | 1971– | Mexican singer and actress |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert | 1728–1777 | Alsatian mathematician, physicist and astronomer |
| Prem Tinsulanonda | 1920–2019 | Prime Minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988 |
| Edward Witten | 1951– | American theoretical physicist |
| Michael Jeter | 1952–2003 | American actor |
| Mehriban Aliyeva | 1964– | Azerbaijani physician and politician; wife of Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliev, Vice President of Azerbaijan and Head of Heydar Aliev Foundation |
Died on 26 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| William James | 1842–1910 | American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 1632–1723 | Dutch microbiologist and microscopist |
| Charles Lindbergh | 1902–1974 | American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist |
| Louis Philippe I | 1773–1850 | King of the French from 1830 to 1848 |
| Frans Hals | died 1666 | Dutch painter |
| Frederick Reines | 1918–1998 | American physicist |
| Franz Werfel | 1890–1945 | Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet |
| Mika Waltari | 1908–1979 | Finnish writer |
| Sven-Göran Eriksson | 1948–2024 | Swedish football manager |
| Laura Branigan | 1952–2004 | American singer and actress |
| Georg Wittig | 1897–1987 | German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize) |
| John of Bohemia | 1296–1346 | king of Bohemia |
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