Notable Birthdays for January 26
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- French philosopher Claude Helvetius in 1715
- U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1880
- Austrian singer Maria von Trapp, whose family was the basis for The Sound of Music, in 1905
- Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1918
- author Philip Jose Farmer in 1918
- actor Paul Newman in 1925
- French film director Roger Vadim in 1928
- cartoonist, playwright and author Jules Feiffer in 1929 (age 86)
- sports personality Bob Uecker in 1935 (age 80)
- actor Scott Glenn in 1941 (age 74)
- political activist Angela Davis in 1944 (age 71)
- film critic Gene Siskel in 1946
- actor David Strathairn in 1949 (age 66)
- NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 1953 (age 62)
- singer Lucinda Williams in 1953 (age 62)
- musician Eddie Van Halen in 1955 (age 60)
- comedian Ellen DeGeneres in 1958 (age 57)
- hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky in 1961 (age 54).
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