Notable Birthdays for June 26
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- Reputed baseball pioneer Abner Doubleday in 1819
- physicist/inventor William Thomson Kelvin in 1824
- Nobel literature laureate Pearl Buck in 1892
- aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt in 1898
- William Lear, developer of the Lear jet, in 1902
- actor Peter Lorre in 1904
- athlete Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1911
- actor Robert Davi in 1951 (age 73)
- musician Mick Jones (Clash) in 1955 (age 69)
- actor Gedde Watanabe in 1955 (age 69)
- musician Chris Isaak in 1956 (age 68)
- cyclist Greg LeMond in 1961 (age 63)
- Icelandic President Guðni Jóhannesson in 1968 (age 56)
- musician Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) in 1969 (age 55)
- filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson in 1970 (age 54)
- actor Chris O'Donnell in 1970 (age 54)
- actor Sean Hayes in 1970 (age 54)
- actor Nick Offerman in 1970 (age 54)
- musician Gretchen Wilson in 1973 (age 51)
- Baseball Hall of Fame member Derek Jeter in 1974 (age 50)
- actor/musician Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon) in 1979 (age 45)
- musician Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic) in 1979 (age 45)
- actor Jason Schwartzman in 1980 (age 44)
- actor Aubrey Plaza in 1984 (age 40)
- actor/musician King Bach, born Andrew Bachelor, in 1988 (age 36)
- actor Jennette McCurdy in 1992 (age 32)
- musician/actor Ariana Grande in 1993 (age 31)
- actor Jacob Elordi in 1997 (age 27)
- actor Harley Quinn Smith in 1999 (age 25).
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