What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every June birthday · battle June 26 against another date · all rankings
Who shares June 26
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1993 · United States
Ariana Grande-Butera is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her four-octave vocal range, which extends into the whistle register, she is an influential figure in popular music.
Barbie Simons, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1997 · Australia
Jacob Nathaniel Elordi is an Australian actor. His accolades include a Critics' Choice Award and three AACTA Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
JoshPopov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1970 · United States
Paul Thomas Anderson, also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker.
Lyn Fairly Media, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1984 · United States
Aubrey Christina Plaza is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She began performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Original: Xfranksun / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1992 · United States
Jennette McCurdy is an American writer and former actress. Her breakthrough role as Sam Puckett in the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly (2007–2012) won her four Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
IMjob322, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1968 · Italy
Paolo Cesare Maldini is an Italian football executive and former professional footballer who most recently served as the president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation.
Foad Ashtari, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1974 · United States
Derek Sanderson Jeter, nicknamed "the Captain", is an American former professional baseball player, businessman, and baseball executive. A shortstop, Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees.
D. Benjamin Miller, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Yukos · energy
1963 · Russia
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1968–2021 · Haiti
Jovenel Moïse was a Haitian politician and businessman who served as the 48th president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021. He assumed the presidency in February 2017 following his victory in the November 2016 Haitian presidential election.
總統府, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1963 · United States
Richard Channing Garfield is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game (CCG). Magic debuted in 1993, and its success spawned many imitations.
Sonja Pieper from Karlsruhe, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1916–1985 · United States
Constantino Paul Castellano was an American crime boss who succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family of New York City. Castellano ran the organization from 1976 until his murder on December 16, 1985.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Messerschmitt · automotive
1898–1978 · Germany
Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed a number of prominent aircraft for the Luftwaffe and civil aviation.
June 26 in history
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Actor
1980 · United States
Jason Schwartzman is an American actor and musician. A member of the Coppola family, Schwartzman made his film debut in Wes Anderson's 1998 film Rushmore, and has since appeared in six other Anderson films: The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1970 · United States
Christopher Eugene O'Donnell is an American actor. After modeling and acting in numerous commercials as a teenager, he made his film debut in the comedy-drama film Men Don't Leave (1990).
Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1908–1973 · Chile
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973.
Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1956 · United States
Christopher Joseph Isaak is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional actor.
Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1904–1964 · United States
Peter Lorre was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
Yousuf Karsh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1970 · United States
Sean Patrick Hayes is an American actor, comedian, and producer.
Sean Hayes - 브로드웨이 진출한 LG 드럼세탁기.jpg: LG전자, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1922–2010 · United States
Blake Edwards was an American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films. Late in his career, he took up writing, producing and directing for theater.
Photo by G. K. Austin, Burbank, CA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · France
Rudy Gobert-Bourgarel is a French professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for the Utah Jazz who acquired him during the 2013 NBA draft.
Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1979 · United States
Ryan Benjamin Tedder is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is the co-founder and frontman of the pop rock band OneRepublic, and has a concurrent career in production and songwriting for other artists.
Burtontedder, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1922–2013 · United States
Eleanor Jean Parker was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
Studio Publicity, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1892–1973 · United States
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
Unknown (see print without name, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1987 · France
Samir Nasri is a French former professional footballer. He primarily played as an attacking midfielder and a winger, although he was also deployed in the central midfield. Nasri was known for his dribbling, ball control and passing ability.
Станислав Ведмидь/Stanislav Vedmid'/Stanisław Wiedmid', CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1984 · France
Adila Sedraïa, known professionally as Indila, is a French singer, songwriter and record producer.
Suzanne Schols, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1824–1907 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.
T. & R. Annan & Sons; restored by Adam Cuerden[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1838–1894 · British Raj
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1944 · Russia
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is a Russian politician who has been the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993 and a member of the State Duma since 1994.
duma.gov.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1866–1923 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Harry Burton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1977 · Japan
Noriaki Kubo, known professionally as Tite Kubo, is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. His manga series Bleach (2001–2016) had over 130 million copies in circulation as of 2022.
Athlete
1911–1956 · United States
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field.
World Wide Photos/ Archival by La Presse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Costa Rica
Joel Nathaniel Campbell Samuels is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Liga FPD club Inter de San Carlos and the Costa Rica national team.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hallison97photo/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · Brazil
Felipe Melo de Carvalho, known as Felipe Melo, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder or centre-back.
Politician
1942 · Brazil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Ricardo Stuckert / PR, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934 · United States
Robert David Grusin is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and 10 Grammy Awards.
https://www.flickr.com/people/andyi/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1947 · Germany
Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher and cultural theorist. He was a professor of philosophy and media theory at and Rector from 2001 to 2015 of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.
Rainer Lück http://1RL.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1933–2014 · Italy
Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation.
Actor
1966 · France
Dany Boon is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1968 · Iceland
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson is an Icelandic historian and politician who served as the sixth president of Iceland from 2016 to 2024.
内閣官房内閣広報室, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1730–1817 · France
Charles Messier was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110.
Ansiaux (1729—1786) (??), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1891–1939 · United States
Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
Muray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1821–1906 · Argentina
Bartolomé Mitre was an Argentine general, statesman and author. He was President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and the first president of unified Argentina.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on June 26, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on June 26. Read the full methodology.
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