May 26: Today's Notable Birthdays

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

May 26th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895.

Washington Augustus Roebling, American engineer and architect, who built the Allegheny Suspension Bridge (in Pennsylvania) with his father, John Augustus Roebling and directed construction of the Brooklyn Bridge (New York), was born on May 26, 1837.

May 26th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Jack Root, American boxer and the first light heavyweight champion, was born on May 26, 1876.

May 26th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Alexander S Pushkin, Russian poet and author (Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, A Feast During the Plague, The Little Tragedies, The Miserly Knight, Mozart and Salieri and The Stone Guest), was born on May 26, 1799.

May 26th Birthday: Famous Business Leaders

Laurance Spellman Rockefeller, American industrialist (Chase Manhattan Bank), conservationist and philanthropist and founder of the American Conservation Association, was born on May 26, 1910.

May 26th Birthdays: Famous Performers

American actor James Arness (Gunsmoke, Hondo, How the West Was Won, Matt Dillon and The Thing from Another World) was born on May 26, 1923.

Peter Cushing, British actor (The Avengers,The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Who and the Daleks, Pride and Prejudice, Richard of Bordeaux, and Star Wars), was born on May 26, 1913.

Archie Duncan, Scottish actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood and Sherlock Holmes), was born on May 26, 1914.

American modern dance pioneer Angela Isadora Duncan was born on May 26, 1877.

Robert Francis ("Bobcat") American comedian (Hercules, Lilo and Stitch and Police Academy), was born on May 26, 1962.

American actress Pam Grier (The Big Bird Cage, Bucktown, Friday Foster, Hit Man, Jackie Brown and Tough Enough) was born on May 26, 1949.

Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), American jazz and vaudeville singer, comedian and silent actor, (Big Boy, Go Into Your Dance, The Jazz Singer, Mammy, Say It with Songs, The Singing Fool, Swanee River and Wonder Bar), was born on May 26, 1886.

Lenny Kravitz, American singer and songwriter ("Again," "American Woman," "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" and "Dig In"), was born on May 26, 1964.

Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom), American singer ("Fever," "Lover," "Mr. Wonderful," "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place," "That's All There Is" and "Why Don't You Do Right?"), was born on May 26, 1920.

Stevie Nicks, American rock star (Fleetwood Mac), was born on May 26, 1946.

Jay Silverheels, Native American actor (Broken Arrow, Captain from Castille, Indian Paint, Key Largo, The Lone Ranger, Walk the Proud Land and War Arrow), was born on May 26, 1919.

Teresa Stratas (Anastasia Stratakis), Canadian operatic soprano (Salome), was born on May 26, 1938.

American actor and Academy award-winner (1968) John ("The Duke") Wayne (The Big Trail, Fort Apache, The Green Berets, The Quiet Man, Red River, Rio Grande, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Shootist, Stagecoach and True Grit) was born on May 26, 1907.

Hank Williams, Jr., American country singer ("A Country Boy Can Survive," "Born to Boogie," "Family Tradition" and "Honky Tonk"), was born on May 26, 1949.

May 26th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Jack ("Doctor Death") Kevorkian, American physician, was born on May 26, 1928.

Sally Kristen Ride, the first American astronaut in space, was born on May 26, 1951.

Happy Birthday, May 26th.

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