October 26

Dimitrie Cantemir

Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir (Romanian pronunciation:; Russian: Дмитрий Кантемир, romanized: Dmitry Kantemir; 26 October 1673 – 21 August 1723), also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters. He twice served as voivode of Moldavia (March–April 1693 and 1710–1711).

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style.

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Georges Danton

Georges Jacques Danton (US: also; French:; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution.

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Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Стефановић Караџић, pronounced; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS) – 7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the modern Serbian language.

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Graf Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (German:; 26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall.

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Miguel I of Portugal

Dom Miguel I (Anglicized: Michael I, 26 October 1802 – 14 November 1866), known by several nicknames, but mainly “the usurper“, was King of Portugal from 1828 to 1834. He was the son of King John VI and Queen Carlota Joaquina.

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Karin Boye

Karin Maria Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1940).

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Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson ( mə-HAY-lee-ə; born Mahala Jackson; October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century.

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François Mitterrand

François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic, successfully remaining in office longer than any other republican head of state in French history.

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Mohammad Reza I of Iran

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last Shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 to 1979.

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Bob Hoskins

Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker in the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (née Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S.

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Carlo Collodi

Carlo Lorenzini (Italian:; 24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi ( kə-LOH-dee, Italian:), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.

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Itō Hirobumi

Prince Itō Hirobumi (Japanese: 伊藤 博文; born Hayashi Risuke (林 利助); 16 October 1841 – 26 October 1909) was a Japanese statesman who served as the first prime minister of Japan from 1885 to 1888. Itō held office again as prime minister three times between 1892 and 1901.

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Aurel Stein

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (Hungarian: Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at Indian universities.

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Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.

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Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Czech and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion…

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Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης; 2 March 1883 – 26 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher.

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Igor Sikorsky

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction.

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Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (Russian: Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, romanized: Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, IPA:; 25 April 1883 – 26 October 1973) was a Russian and Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish–Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of…

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Park Chung-hee

Park Chung Hee (Korean: 박정희, pronounced; 14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979) was a South Korean politician and army officer who seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961, and served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 until his assassination in 1979.

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Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski (Polish:; born Alfred Teitelbaum; January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a Polish-American logician and mathematician.

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Charles J. Pedersen

Charles John Pedersen (Japanese: 安井 良男, Yasui Yoshio, October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware,…

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