May 26: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is May 26th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on May 26th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

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.