October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining.
Events:
Births:
- 1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer
- 1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, leader of the French Revolution
- 1854 - Charles Post[?], cereal entrepreneur
- 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman, went down on Titanic (+ 1912)
- 1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist
- 1902 - Jack Sharkey[?], boxing champion (+ 1994)
- 1906 - Primo Carnera, boxing champion (+ 1967)
- 1911 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (+ 1972)
- 1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player, coach, manager
- 1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scots Gaelic poet
- 1912 - Don Siegel, American director
- 1914 - Jackie Coogan, actor (+ 1984)
- 1916 - François Mitterrand, French president (+ 1996)
- 1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, shah of Iran (+ 1980)
- 1942 - Bob Hoskins, actor
- 1945 - Pat Conroy[?], novelist
- 1946 - Pat Sajak[?], game show host
- 1946 - Ivan Reitman[?], actor, writer, director
- 1947 - Jaclyn Smith[?], actress
- 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of former President of the United States, Senator from New York
- 1947 - Holly Woodlawn[?], actor
- 1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
- 1953 - Keith Strickland[?], drummer ((The B-52s[?])
- 1954 - D.W. Moffett[?], actor
- 1958 - Rita Wilson[?], actress
- 1961 - Cylan McDermott[?], actor
- 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
- 1963 - Natalie Merchant, singer
Deaths:
- 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter
- 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada
- 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragette
- 1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden
- 1931 - Charles Comiskey[?], baseball owner
- 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer
- 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer
- 1975 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist
- 1979 - Park Chung-hee[?], president of South Korea
- 1991 - Bill Graham[?], rock and roll entrepreneur
- 1999 - Hoyt Axton[?], musician
Holidays:
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
October 25 - October 27 - November 26 - September 26 - more historical anniversaries