The 269th day of the year, the 270th in a leap year
Born on 26 September
Every 26 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 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 September in any year.
Which weekday 26 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 September falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 26 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,974 babies were born on 26 September in each year of the twenty, making it the most common birthday of all 366; the least common, 26 December, averaged 1,359.
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Born on 26 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| T. S. Eliot | 1888–1965 | US-British poet |
| Martin Heidegger | 1889–1976 | German philosopher |
| Pope Paul VI | 1897–1978 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 |
| Ivan Pavlov | 1849–1936 | Russian physiologist |
| Serena Williams | 1981– | American tennis player |
| Petro Poroshenko | 1965– | President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019 |
| Manmohan Singh | 1932–2024 | Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician |
| George Gershwin | 1898–1937 | American composer and pianist |
| Michael Ballack | 1976– | German association football player |
| Olivia Newton-John | 1948–2022 | British and Australian singer |
| Théodore Géricault | 1791–1824 | French painter |
| Winnie Mandela | 1936–2018 | South African activist and politician |
| Jack LaLanne | 1914–2011 | American exercise instructor |
| Christian X | 1870–1947 | King of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944) |
| Archibald Hill | 1886–1977 | English physiologist and biophysicist |
| Ricardo Quaresma | 1983– | Portuguese association football player |
| Linda Hamilton | 1956– | American actress |
| Jim Caviezel | 1968– | American actor |
Died on 26 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jacques Chirac | 1932–2019 | President of France from 1995 to 2007 |
| Paul Newman | 1925–2008 | American actor |
| Béla Bartók | 1881–1945 | Hungarian composer and pianist |
| Alberto Moravia | 1907–1990 | Italian writer and journalist |
| George Santayana | 1863–1952 | Spanish-American philosopher |
| Ibn Taymiyya | 1263–1328 | Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher |
| Anna Magnani | 1908–1973 | Italian actress |
| Leopold Ružička | 1887–1976 | Croatian scientist |
| Gloria Stuart | 1910–2010 | American actress |
| August Ferdinand Möbius | 1790–1868 | German mathematician and astronomer |
| Bessie Smith | 1894–1937 | American blues singer |
| Levi Strauss | 1829–1902 | German-born American businessman |
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