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.
Where the sun stands on 26 November. The marked arc is every position it has held on 26 November, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

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

18 people born on 26 November, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Tina Turner1939–2023American-born Swiss singer and songwriter
Ferdinand de Saussure1857–1913Swiss linguist and philosopher
Eugène Ionesco1909–1994Romanian-French playwright
Elizabeth Blackburn1948–Australian-American biological researcher
Rita Ora1990–English-Albanian singer and actress
Norbert Wiener1894–1964American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence
Danny Welbeck1990–English association football player
Karl Ziegler1898–1973German chemist
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel1931–Argentine activist, architect and sculptor
William Cowper1731–1800English poet and hymnodist
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi1939–2025Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009
Ellen G. White1827–1915American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Maud of Wales1869–1938British princess, Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
Ilona Staller1951–Hungarian-born Italian pornographic actress, singer and politician
Heinrich Brüning1885–1970German chancellor
Natasha Bedingfield1981–English and New Zealand singer-songwriter
Charles M. Schulz1922–2000American cartoonist, comics writer, comic book artist
Velupillai Prabhakaran1954–2009founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization in Sri Lanka

Died on 26 November

11 people who died on 26 November, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Adam Mickiewicz1798–1855Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist
Isabella I of Castile1451–1504Queen of Castile and León from 1474 to 1504
Stephen Hillenburg1961–2018American marine science educator and artist
Sojourner Truth1797–1883abolitionist and African-American activist for women's rights
Pope Siricius334–399pope
Max Euwe1901–1981Dutch chess player and mathematician
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff1788–1857German poet and novelist
Sven Hedin1865–1952Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator
Joseph E. Murray1919–2012American plastic surgeon
John Browning1855–1926American firearms designer
Stephen Sondheim1930–2021American composer and lyricist

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