The 26th day of the year
Born on 26 January
Every 26 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Two new years, and a third in 2028
The new year fell on 26 January only twice between 1920 and 2026, in 1933 at the start of the Water Rooster and in 2009 at the start of the Earth Ox, and it returns soon: 26 January 2028 is the first day of the year of the Earth Monkey. A birthday on this date fell before the new year in 89 of those 107 years and belongs to the animal of the year before; in 18 the new year had come.
The years from 2025 to 2028 show how far the boundary moves. On 26 January 2025 the Wood Dragon still had three days to run, since the Snake began on the 29th. In 2026 the date fell 22 days before the Fire Horse of 17 February, and in 2027 it falls eleven days before the Fire Goat of 6 February, so both of those birthdays belong to the animal of the year before. Then in 2028 it is the new year itself.
The sign stays put: every 26 January from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 26 January in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 26 January in 89 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 18 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1933 and 2009.
Shaded: 26 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 26 January. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 26 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 January falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 26 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 26 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,766 babies were born on 26 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 327th 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Douglas MacArthur | 1880–1964 | United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea |
| Paul Newman | 1925–2008 | American actor |
| José Mourinho | 1963– | Portuguese association football manager and former player |
| Ellen DeGeneres | 1958– | American comedian, television host, actress, and writer |
| Angela Davis | 1944– | American political activist, scholar, and author |
| Anders Fogh Rasmussen | 1953– | former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO |
| Charles XIV John | 1763–1844 | King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 to 1844, formerly a Marshal of France |
| Claude Adrien Helvétius | 1715–1771 | French philosopher |
| Wayne Gretzky | 1961– | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| Polykarp Kusch | 1911–1993 | German-American physicist |
| Jörg Haider | 1950–2008 | Austrian politician |
| Achim von Arnim | 1781–1831 | German poet and novelist |
| Eddie Van Halen | 1955–2020 | Dutch-American rock guitarist |
| Sergio Pérez | 1990– | Mexican racing driver |
| Roger Vadim | 1928–2000 | French filmmaker |
| Seán MacBride | 1904–1988 | Irish politician and human rights activist |
| Kevin McCarthy | 1965– | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023 |
| Brendan Rodgers | 1973– | Northern Irish association football manager |
Died on 26 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Jenner | 1749–1823 | English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination |
| Kobe Bryant | 1978–2020 | American basketball player |
| Nelson Rockefeller | 1908–1979 | Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977 |
| Gérard de Nerval | 1808–1855 | French writer, poet, essayist and translator |
| Théodore Géricault | 1791–1824 | French painter |
| Nicolaus Otto | 1832–1891 | German inventor |
| Nikolai Vavilov | 1887–1943 | Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist |
| Edward G. Robinson | 1893–1973 | Romanian-American actor |
| Arthur Cayley | 1821–1895 | English mathematician |
| José Ferrer | 1912–1992 | American actor and director |
| Lucky Luciano | 1897–1962 | Italian American mobster |
| Charles George Gordon | 1833–1885 | British army officer and administrator |
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