June 26: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

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

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.