Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 26
Births
- 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
- 1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
- 1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
- 1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
- 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
- 1939 - John Howard, (pictured) 25th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
- Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
- 1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
- 1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
Deaths
- 1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
- 1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
- 1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)