Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 26
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Births
- 1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
- 1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
- 1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
- 1877 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
- 1886 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
- 1887 - Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
- 1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (pictured) (d. 1965)
- 1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
- 1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
- 1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
- 1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
- 1932 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
- 1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
- 1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
- 1947 - Lynn Anderson, American country-pop music singer
- 1981 - Serena Williams, American tennis player
Deaths
- 1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
- 1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
- 1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
- 1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
