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| August 26th, 2007 (August 26 2007) | Death | Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (born in 1928) | |
| August 26th, 2007 (August 26 2007) | Death | Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (born in 1935) | Martial Quotes |
| August 26th, 2006 (August 26 2006) | Death | Rainer Barzel, German politician (born in 1924) | |
| August 26th, 2006 (August 26 2006) | Death | Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (born in 1926) | |
| August 26th, 2005 (August 26 2005) | Death | Denis D Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (born in 1960) | |
| August 26th, 2005 (August 26 2005) | Death | Robert Denning, American interior designer (born in 1927) | |
| August 26th, 2004 (August 26 2004) | Death | Laura Branigan, American singer (born in 1957) | |
| August 26th, 2003 (August 26 2003) | Event | Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. | |
| August 26th, 2003 (August 26 2003) | Death | Jim Wacker, American football coach (born in 1937) | |
| August 26th, 2002 (August 26 2002) | Event | Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. | |
| August 26th, 2001 (August 26 2001) | Death | Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (born in 1904) | |
| August 26th, 2000 (August 26 2000) | Death | Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (born in 1939) | |
| August 26th, 1999 (August 26 1999) | Event | Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds. | Michael Johns Quotes |
| August 26th, 1998 (August 26 1998) | Death | Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1918) | |
| August 26th, 1997 (August 26 1997) | Event | Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed. | |
| August 26th, 1996 (August 26 1996) | Event | Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| August 26th, 1993 (August 26 1993) | Birth | Keke Palmer, American actress | |
| August 26th, 1992 (August 26 1992) | Death | Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (born in 1933) | |
| August 26th, 1992 (August 26 1992) | Death | Bob de Moor, Belgian comics artist (born in 1925) | |
| August 26th, 1990 (August 26 1990) | Birth | Lil Chris, British singer | |
| August 26th, 1990 (August 26 1990) | Death | Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (born in 1913) | |
| August 26th, 1989 (August 26 1989) | Death | Irving Stone, American author (born in 1903) | |
| August 26th, 1988 (August 26 1988) | Event | Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| August 26th, 1988 (August 26 1988) | Birth | Danielle Savre, American actress | |
| August 26th, 1988 (August 26 1988) | Birth | Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este | |
| August 26th, 1988 (August 26 1988) | Birth | Evan Ross, American actor | |
| August 26th, 1988 (August 26 1988) | Death | Carlos Paiao, Portuguese singer (born in 1957) | |
| August 26th, 1987 (August 26 1987) | Event | President Ronald Wilson Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| August 26th, 1987 (August 26 1987) | Death | Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1897) | |
| August 26th, 1986 (August 26 1986) | Birth | Cassie Ventura, American singer | |
| August 26th, 1986 (August 26 1986) | Death | Ted Knight, American actor (born in 1923) | |
| August 26th, 1983 (August 26 1983) | Event | Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain. | |
| August 26th, 1983 (August 26 1983) | Birth | Felix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver | |
| August 26th, 1981 (August 26 1981) | Birth | Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman | |
| August 26th, 1981 (August 26 1981) | Birth | Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler | |
| August 26th, 1981 (August 26 1981) | Death | Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (born in 1884) | |
| August 26th, 1981 (August 26 1981) | Death | Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (born in 1914) | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Event | John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Birth | Macaulay Culkin, American actor | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Birth | Brendan Harris, American baseball player | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Birth | Chris Pine, American actor | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Death | Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (born in 1874) | |
| August 26th, 1980 (August 26 1980) | Death | Tex Avery, American cartoonist (born in 1908) | |
| August 26th, 1979 (August 26 1979) | Birth | Jamal Lewis, American football player | |
| August 26th, 1979 (August 26 1979) | Birth | Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| August 26th, 1979 (August 26 1979) | Birth | Ruben Pazos, Spanish footballer | |
| August 26th, 1979 (August 26 1979) | Death | Mika Waltari, Finnish author (born in 1908) | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Event | Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elevated to the Papacy. | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Event | Sigmund Jahn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft. | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Birth | Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Death | Charles Boyer, French actor (born in 1899) | |
| August 26th, 1978 (August 26 1978) | Death | Jose Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (born in 1916) | |
| August 26th, 1977 (August 26 1977) | Event | Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec | |
| August 26th, 1977 (August 26 1977) | Birth | Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyuu | |
| August 26th, 1977 (August 26 1977) | Birth | Morris Peterson, American basketball player | |
| August 26th, 1976 (August 26 1976) | Birth | Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh) | |
| August 26th, 1976 (August 26 1976) | Birth | Zemfira, Russian singer | |
| August 26th, 1976 (August 26 1976) | Death | Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (born in 1888) | |
| August 26th, 1975 (August 26 1975) | Birth | Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player | |
| August 26th, 1974 (August 26 1974) | Death | Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (born in 1902) | |
| August 26th, 1971 (August 26 1971) | Birth | Thalia, Mexican singer | |
| August 26th, 1970 (August 26 1970) | Birth | Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete | |
| August 26th, 1968 (August 26 1968) | Event | The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| August 26th, 1968 (August 26 1968) | Death | Kay Francis, American actress (born in 1899) | |
| August 26th, 1967 (August 26 1967) | Birth | Kelly Madison, porn star | |
| August 26th, 1966 (August 26 1966) | Birth | Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player | |
| August 26th, 1966 (August 26 1966) | Birth | Shirley Manson, Scottish singer | |
| August 26th, 1965 (August 26 1965) | Birth | Chris Burke, American actor | |
| August 26th, 1965 (August 26 1965) | Birth | Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (died in 2000) | |
| August 26th, 1965 (August 26 1965) | Birth | Jon Hensley, American actor | |
| August 26th, 1962 (August 26 1962) | Birth | Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney | |
| August 26th, 1961 (August 26 1961) | Birth | Jeff Parrett, American baseball player | |
| August 26th, 1960 (August 26 1960) | Birth | Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader | |
| August 26th, 1960 (August 26 1960) | Birth | Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer | |
| August 26th, 1958 (August 26 1958) | Death | Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (born in 1872) | Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes |
| August 26th, 1957 (August 26 1957) | Event | The USSR announces the successful test of ana "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS. | |
| August 26th, 1957 (August 26 1957) | Birth | Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer | |
| August 26th, 1957 (August 26 1957) | Birth | Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete | |
| August 26th, 1956 (August 26 1956) | Birth | Mark Mangino, American football coach | |
| August 26th, 1956 (August 26 1956) | Death | Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (born in 1881) | |
| August 26th, 1954 (August 26 1954) | Birth | Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player | |
| August 26th, 1953 (August 26 1953) | Birth | Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer | |
| August 26th, 1952 (August 26 1952) | Birth | Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 26th, 1952 (August 26 1952) | Birth | Michael Jeter, American actor (died in 2003) | |
| August 26th, 1952 (August 26 1952) | Birth | Will Shortz, American crossword editor | |
| August 26th, 1950 (August 26 1950) | Birth | Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (died in 2006) | |
| August 26th, 1947 (August 26 1947) | Birth | Emiliano Diez, Cuban actor | |
| August 26th, 1946 (August 26 1946) | Birth | Valerie Simpson, American singer | |
| August 26th, 1946 (August 26 1946) | Birth | Mark Snow, American composer | |
| August 26th, 1946 (August 26 1946) | Birth | Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People s Republic of China | |
| August 26th, 1946 (August 26 1946) | Birth | Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress | |
| August 26th, 1946 (August 26 1946) | Death | Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (born in 1887) | |
| August 26th, 1945 (August 26 1945) | Birth | Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security | |
| August 26th, 1945 (August 26 1945) | Death | Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (born in 1890) | |
| August 26th, 1944 (August 26 1944) | Event | World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| August 26th, 1944 (August 26 1944) | Birth | Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester | |
| August 26th, 1944 (August 26 1944) | Birth | Stephen Greif, English actor | |
| August 26th, 1944 (August 26 1944) | Birth | Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground) | |
| August 26th, 1944 (August 26 1944) | Death | Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (born in 1909) | |
| August 26th, 1942 (August 26 1942) | Event | Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot. | |
| August 26th, 1942 (August 26 1942) | Birth | Vic Dana, American singer | |
| August 26th, 1942 (August 26 1942) | Birth | Dennis Turner, British politician | |
| August 26th, 1941 (August 26 1941) | Birth | Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director | |
| August 26th, 1941 (August 26 1941) | Birth | Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress | |
| August 26th, 1941 (August 26 1941) | Birth | Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (died in 2005) | |
| August 26th, 1940 (August 26 1940) | Event | Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Felix Eboue, France s first black colonial governor. | |
| August 26th, 1940 (August 26 1940) | Birth | Don LaFontaine, American voice actor | |
| August 26th, 1939 (August 26 1939) | Event | The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. | |
| August 26th, 1936 (August 26 1936) | Birth | Yvette Vickers, American actress | |
| August 26th, 1935 (August 26 1935) | Birth | Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate | |
| August 26th, 1934 (August 26 1934) | Birth | Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator | |
| August 26th, 1930 (August 26 1930) | Death | Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (born in 1883) | |
| August 26th, 1928 (August 26 1928) | Birth | Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist | |
| August 26th, 1928 (August 26 1928) | Birth | Naim Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist | |
| August 26th, 1927 (August 26 1927) | Birth | B. V. Doshi, Indian architect | |
| August 26th, 1925 (August 26 1925) | Birth | Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (died in 2005) | |
| August 26th, 1925 (August 26 1925) | Birth | Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (died in 1999) | |
| August 26th, 1924 (August 26 1924) | Event | (August 13 Old Style) Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor in systematic ethnic cleansing. One of the first cases of ethic cleansing in the 20th Century. | |
| August 26th, 1924 (August 26 1924) | Birth | Alex Kellner, baseball player (died in 1996) | |
| August 26th, 1923 (August 26 1923) | Birth | Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist | |
| August 26th, 1922 (August 26 1922) | Event | Turkish Army started the last attack on Greeks in the Turkish War of Independence. | |
| August 26th, 1922 (August 26 1922) | Birth | Irving R. Levine, American journalist | |
| August 26th, 1921 (August 26 1921) | Birth | Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist | |
| August 26th, 1920 (August 26 1920) | Event | 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote. | |
| August 26th, 1920 (August 26 1920) | Birth | Brant Parker, American cartoonist (died in 2007) | |
| August 26th, 1915 (August 26 1915) | Death | John Bunny American comedian (born in 1863) | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Event | World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army. | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Event | World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau. | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Event | World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. | |
| August 26th, 1914 (August 26 1914) | Birth | Julio Cortazar, Argentine writer (died in 1984) | Julio Cortazar Quotes |
| August 26th, 1910 (August 26 1910) | Birth | Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun, Nobel laureate (died in 1997) | |
| August 26th, 1910 (August 26 1910) | Death | William James, American psychologist and philosopher (born in 1842) | William James Quotes |
| August 26th, 1909 (August 26 1909) | Birth | Jim Davis, American actor (died in 1981) | |
| August 26th, 1909 (August 26 1909) | Birth | Gene Moore, baseball player (died in 1978) | |
| August 26th, 1908 (August 26 1908) | Birth | W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (died in 1967) | |
| August 26th, 1908 (August 26 1908) | Birth | Aubrey Schenck, film producer (died in 1999) | |
| August 26th, 1908 (August 26 1908) | Death | Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (born in 1837) | |
| August 26th, 1906 (August 26 1906) | Birth | Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (died in 1993) | |
| August 26th, 1904 (August 26 1904) | Birth | Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (died in 1986) | Christopher Isherwood Quotes |
| August 26th, 1901 (August 26 1901) | Birth | Maxwell Taylor, American general (died in 1987) | |
| August 26th, 1901 (August 26 1901) | Birth | Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (died in 1972) | |
| August 26th, 1900 (August 26 1900) | Birth | Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (died in 1980) | |
| August 26th, 1899 (August 26 1899) | Birth | Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (died in 1991) | |
| August 26th, 1898 (August 26 1898) | Birth | Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (died in 1979) | |
| August 26th, 1897 (August 26 1897) | Birth | Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (died in 1990) | |
| August 26th, 1896 (August 26 1896) | Birth | Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (died in 1990) | |
| August 26th, 1894 (August 26 1894) | Birth | Sparky Adams, Baseball player (died in 1989) | |
| August 26th, 1885 (August 26 1885) | Birth | Jules Romains, French author (died in 1972) | |
| August 26th, 1883 (August 26 1883) | Event | Eruption of Mount Krakatoa. | |
| August 26th, 1882 (August 26 1882) | Birth | James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1964) | |
| August 26th, 1880 (August 26 1880) | Birth | Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (died in 1918) | Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes |
| August 26th, 1875 (August 26 1875) | Birth | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (died in 1940) | John Scott Quotes |
| August 26th, 1874 (August 26 1874) | Birth | Zona Gale, American novelist (died in 1938) | |
| August 26th, 1873 (August 26 1873) | Birth | Lee DeForest, American inventor (died in 1961) | |
| August 26th, 1865 (August 26 1865) | Death | Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (born in 1791) | |
| August 26th, 1862 (August 26 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run begins. | |
| August 26th, 1862 (August 26 1862) | Birth | Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (died in 1926) | William Booth Quotes |
| August 26th, 1858 (August 26 1858) | Event | First news dispatch by telegraph. | |
| August 26th, 1850 (August 26 1850) | Birth | Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1935) | |
| August 26th, 1850 (August 26 1850) | Death | Louis-Philippe of France (born in 1773) | |
| August 26th, 1845 (August 26 1845) | Birth | Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (died in 1888) | |
| August 26th, 1839 (August 26 1839) | Event | The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island. | |
| August 26th, 1826 (August 26 1826) | Birth | Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (died in 1875) | |
| August 26th, 1818 (August 26 1818) | Event | The first Illinois Constitution was signed in Kaskaskia. | |
| August 26th, 1792 (August 26 1792) | Birth | Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (died in 1857) | |
| August 26th, 1789 (August 26 1789) | Event | Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles. | |
| August 26th, 1789 (August 26 1789) | Birth | Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (died in 1833) | |
| August 26th, 1785 (August 26 1785) | Death | George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (born in 1716) | |
| August 26th, 1778 (August 26 1778) | Event | The first ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia. | |
| August 26th, 1775 (August 26 1775) | Birth | William Joseph Behr, German writer (died in 1851) | |
| August 26th, 1768 (August 26 1768) | Event | HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England. | |
| August 26th, 1748 (August 26 1748) | Event | The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| August 26th, 1743 (August 26 1743) | Birth | Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (died in 1794) | |
| August 26th, 1740 (August 26 1740) | Birth | Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (died in 1810) | |
| August 26th, 1736 (August 26 1736) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste L. Rome de l Isle, French chemist (died in 1790) | |
| August 26th, 1728 (August 26 1728) | Birth | Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (died in 1777) | |
| August 26th, 1723 (August 26 1723) | Death | Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (born in 1632) | |
| August 26th, 1714 (August 26 1714) | Death | Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (born in 1632) | |
| August 26th, 1694 (August 26 1694) | Birth | Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (died in 1755) | |
| August 26th, 1676 (August 26 1676) | Birth | Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1745) | |
| August 26th, 1666 (August 26 1666) | Death | Frans Hals, Dutch painter (born in circa 1580) | |
| August 26th, 1595 (August 26 1595) | Death | Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (born in 1531) | |
| August 26th, 1572 (August 26 1572) | Death | Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (born in 1515) | Philo Quotes |
| August 26th, 1551 (August 26 1551) | Death | Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born in 1516) | |
| August 26th, 1540 (August 26 1540) | Birth | King Magnus of Livonia (died in 1583) | |
| August 26th, 1498 (August 26 1498) | Event | Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pieta. | |
| August 26th, 1469 (August 26 1469) | Birth | Ferdinand II of Naples (died in 1496) | |
| August 26th, 1466 (August 26 1466) | Event | A conjure against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered. | |
| August 26th, 1349 (August 26 1349) | Death | Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| August 26th, 1346 (August 26 1346) | Event | Hundred Years War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crecy. | |
| August 26th, 1303 (August 26 1303) | Event | Ala ud din Khilji won Chittor. | |
| August 26th, 1278 (August 26 1278) | Event | Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Durnkrut in Moravia. | |
| August 26th, 1278 (August 26 1278) | Death | King Otakar II of Bohemia | |
| August 26th, 1071 (August 26 1071) | Event | Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. | |
