The 146th day of the year, the 147th in a leap year
Born on 26 May
Every 26 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 26 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 May falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 26 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,766 babies were born on 26 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 325th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John Wayne | 1907–1979 | American actor |
| Miles Davis | 1926–1991 | American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer |
| Sally Ride | 1951–2012 | American astronaut and physicist |
| Helena Bonham Carter | 1966– | British actress |
| Pope Clement VII | 1478–1534 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 1949– | British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020 |
| Frederik X | 1968– | King of Denmark since 2024 |
| Mehmed III | 1566–1603 | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 to 1603 |
| Lenny Kravitz | 1964– | American guitarist and singer |
| János Kádár | 1912–1989 | former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party |
| Ward Cunningham | 1949– | American computer programmer |
| Mary of Teck | 1867–1953 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 |
| Abraham de Moivre | 1667–1754 | French mathematician |
| Stevie Nicks | 1948– | American singer and songwriter |
| John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | 1650–1722 | English soldier and statesman; born 26 May in the Julian calendar, which is 5 June in the Gregorian |
| Dorothea Lange | 1895–1965 | American photojournalist |
| Luca Toni | 1977– | Italian association football player |
| Juan Cuadrado | 1988– | Colombian footballer |
Died on 26 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Heidegger | 1889–1976 | German philosopher |
| Bede | 672–735 | Anglo-Saxon monk, writer and saint |
| Bayezid II | 1447–1512 | the eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512) |
| Emir Abdelkader | 1808–1883 | Algerian religious and military leader |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | 1928–2017 | Polish-American diplomat and political scientist |
| Sydney Pollack | 1934–2008 | American film director, producer and actor |
| Mehmed I | 1386–1421 | fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421) |
| Ray Liotta | 1954–2022 | American actor |
| Edmund I | 920–946 | King of England (r. 939–946) |
| Alberto Ascari | 1918–1955 | Italian racing driver |
| Mirza Ghulam Ahmad | 1835–1908 | Indian religious leader |
| Prem Tinsulanonda | 1920–2019 | Prime Minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988 |
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