Famous Birthdays In November - 26
1288 Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1607 John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
1609 Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1640 Carl Rosier, composer
1653 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1657 William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1663 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
1678 Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
1736 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
1744 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
1754 Georg Forster, writer
1795 Carl P Fohr, German painter
1795 Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
1809 Mariano Obiols, composer
1810 William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const (hydr crane)
1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
1847 Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1850 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
1857 Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1862 Mark A Stein, archaeologist
1864 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
1865 Earl Ross Drake, composer
1869 Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1874 Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel)
1876 Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
1876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
1885 Heinrich BrÃĽning, German politician (d. 1970)
1888 Franz Jung, writer
1889 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1892 Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1894 James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
