June 26: Today's Notable Birthdays

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. June 26th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

June 26th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Claudio Abbado, Italian operatic and orchestral conductor (La Scala, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera), was born on June 26, 1933.

Polish painter and printmaker Jankel Adler (Girl With Still Life, Still Life With Fruit and Three Figures) was born on June 26, 1895.

Antonia Brico, Dutch-American pianist and conductor, was born on June 26, 1902.

Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, Russian composer, was born on June 26, 1874.

British naturalist painter George Morland (Dogs in Landscape, The Labourer's Luncheon, The Piggery, Post Boys and Horses and The Wreckers) was born on June 26, 1763.

Albert Siklos, Hungarian composer, musicologist and cellist, was born on June 26, 1878.

June 26th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson, American all-around athlete (basketball, golf and track and field) and Olympic gold medalist (1932), was born on June 26, 1913.

Greg LeMond, American bicyclist and Tour de France winner (1986, 1989 and 1990) was born on June 26, 1961.

June 26th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American author (The Good Earth, A House Divided, Imperial Woman, Letter from Peking, The Living Reed and Peony), Pulitzer Prize winner (1932) and Nobel Prize winner (1938) Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892.

Sidney Coe Howard, American dramatist (Half Gods, The Most Happy Fella, Lucky Sam McCarver, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord, Swords, They Knew What They Wanted and Yellow Jack), screenwriter (Arrowsmith, Dodsworth and Gone With the Wind), and Pulitzer Prize winner (1925) and Academy Award winner (1939 - posthumously), was born on June 26, 1891.

Antoine de Rivarol, French journalist (Journal Politique) and author (Sur L'Universalite de La Langue Francaise and Petit Almanach de Nos Grands Hommes Pour 1788), was born on June 26, 1753.

June 26th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Abner Doubleday, legendary American baseball founder, was born on June 26, 1819.

William Powell Lear, American engineer and aircraft manufacturer (Lear Jet Corporation), was born on June 26, 1902.

Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, British financier and philanthropist, was born on June 26, 1887.

June 26th Birthdays: Famous Performers

"Big Bill" Broonzy, American blues bluesman, was born on June 26, 1893.

Robert Davi, American actor (Action Jackson, Batman Beyond, Blind Justice, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, City Heat, Cops and Robbersons, Die Hard, The Goonies, In the Mix, License to Kill, Profiler, Raw Deal, Showgirls, Son of the Pink Panther, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Wiseguy), was born on June 26, 1956.

Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The Fifth Dimension), was born on June 26, 1940.

Sean Hayes, American actor (Will and Grace) was born on June 26, 1970.

American rocker Chris Isaak ("Don't Make Me Dream About You," "Somebody's Crying," "Solitary Man," "Think of Tomorrow" and "Wicked Game") was born on June 26, 1956.

Peter Lorre, Hungarian-Austrian-American actor (Around the World in Eighty Days, Arsenic and Old Lace, Background to Danger, The Beast with Five Fingers, The Buster Keaton Story, Casablanca, Casbah, Congo Crossing, The Constant Nymph, Crack-Up, Crime and Punishment, Danger Island, Hotel Berlin, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Mr. Moto, The Patsy, Passage to Marseille, Quicksand, The Raven, Secret Agent, Silk Stockings, Tales of Terror, 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), was born on June 26, 1904.

Noriyuki Pat Morita, actor (Captive Hearts, Happy Days, Karate Kid, M*A*S*H, Mr. T. and Tina, Mulan and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo), was born on June 26, 1933.

American actor Chris O'Donnell (Batman Forever, Batman and Robin and Scent of a Woman) was born on June 26, 1970.

Eleanor Jean Parker, American actress (Between Two Worlds, Caged, Detective Story, Hollywood Canteen, The King and Four Queens, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Naked Jungle, Of Human Bondage, Pride of the Marines and The Sound of Music), was born on June 26, 1922.

Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) was born on June 26, 1878.

Gretchen Frances Wilson, American country musician ("All Jacked Up," "I'm Here for the Party," "Politically Uncorrect" and "Redneck Woman"), was born on June 26, 1973.

Wolfgang Windgassen, German operatic tenor (Stuttgart Opera), was born on June 26, 1914.

June 26th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

William Thomson (1^st Baron Kelvin) Irish mathematician, thermodynamic engineer and physicist (The Kelvin Scale), was born on June 26, 1824.

Happy Birthday, June 26th.

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