The 330th day of the year, the 331st in a leap year
Born on 26 November
Every 26 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 November in any year.
Which weekday 26 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 November falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 26 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,791 babies were born on 26 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 233rd 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 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Tina Turner | 1939–2023 | American-born Swiss singer and songwriter |
| Ferdinand de Saussure | 1857–1913 | Swiss linguist and philosopher |
| Eugène Ionesco | 1909–1994 | Romanian-French playwright |
| Elizabeth Blackburn | 1948– | Australian-American biological researcher |
| Rita Ora | 1990– | English-Albanian singer and actress |
| Norbert Wiener | 1894–1964 | American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence |
| Danny Welbeck | 1990– | English association football player |
| Karl Ziegler | 1898–1973 | German chemist |
| Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | 1931– | Argentine activist, architect and sculptor |
| William Cowper | 1731–1800 | English poet and hymnodist |
| Abdullah Ahmad Badawi | 1939–2025 | Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009 |
| Ellen G. White | 1827–1915 | American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church |
| Maud of Wales | 1869–1938 | British princess, Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938 |
| Ilona Staller | 1951– | Hungarian-born Italian pornographic actress, singer and politician |
| Heinrich Brüning | 1885–1970 | German chancellor |
| Natasha Bedingfield | 1981– | English and New Zealand singer-songwriter |
| Charles M. Schulz | 1922–2000 | American cartoonist, comics writer, comic book artist |
| Velupillai Prabhakaran | 1954–2009 | founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization in Sri Lanka |
Died on 26 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Mickiewicz | 1798–1855 | Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist |
| Isabella I of Castile | 1451–1504 | Queen of Castile and León from 1474 to 1504 |
| Stephen Hillenburg | 1961–2018 | American marine science educator and artist |
| Sojourner Truth | 1797–1883 | abolitionist and African-American activist for women's rights |
| Pope Siricius | 334–399 | pope |
| Max Euwe | 1901–1981 | Dutch chess player and mathematician |
| Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | 1788–1857 | German poet and novelist |
| Sven Hedin | 1865–1952 | Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator |
| Joseph E. Murray | 1919–2012 | American plastic surgeon |
| John Browning | 1855–1926 | American firearms designer |
| Stephen Sondheim | 1930–2021 | American composer and lyricist |
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