What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every May birthday · battle May 26 against another date · all rankings
Who shares May 26
Share of the 42 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
1966 · United Kingdom
Helena Bonham Carter is a British actress. She is known for her character roles as eccentric women in blockbusters and independent films, particularly period dramas.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1907–1979 · United States
Marion Robert Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Musician
1948 · United States
Stephanie Lynn Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.
Larry Richman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1926–1991 · United States
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1968 · France
Frederik X is King of Denmark, reigning since 14 January 2024.
Stenbocki maja, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1951–2012 · United States
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Southern California, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983, became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space.
NASA; retouched by Coffeeandcrumbs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Air Transat
1957 · Canada
François Legault is a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 32nd premier of Quebec from 2018 to 2026. A founding member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), he led the party from its inception in 2011 until his resignation in 2026.
Lea-Kim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1905–1990 · Italy
Aldo Gucci was an Italian personality and the chairman of Gucci from 1953 to 1986. He was the eldest biological son of Guccio Gucci, who founded the company bearing the family name in 1921.
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · Mobileye · automotive
1960 · Israel
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist, businessman and philanthropist.
Jonathan Hepner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Farman Aviation Works · automotive
1874–1958 · France
Henri Farman was a British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Before dedicating himself to aviation he gained fame as a sportsman, specifically in cycling and motor racing. Henri acquired French nationality in 1937.
Agence Rol, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1950 · United States
Dean Alexander Spanos is an American businessman who is the owner and chairman of the San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He is the son of Alex Spanos, who purchased majority interest in the team in 1984.
Deejay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1623–1687 · Kingdom of England
Sir William Petty was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers.
John Closterman, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
May 26 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1949 · United States
Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. She achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures.
Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1913–1994 · United Kingdom
Peter Wilton Cushing was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles.
Hammer films, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1877–1927 · United States
Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1971 · United States
Matthew Richard Stone is an American animator, filmmaker, songwriter and actor. He studied film and mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met his creative partner Trey Parker. As students, they made the independent film Cannibal! The Musical (1993).
Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1928–2011 · United States
Murad Jacob Kevorkian, also known by the nickname "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime".
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1886–1950 · United States
Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian.
Film studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1920–2002 · United States
Norma Deloris Egstrom, known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades.
General Artists Corporation (management), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1977 · Italy
Luca Toni is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Kirill Venediktov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1909–1994 · United Kingdom
Sir Alexander Matthew Busby was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season.
Kurt Nielsen © Scanpix, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1988 · Colombia
Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello is a Colombian professional footballer. He usually plays on the right side of the pitch, either as a winger, wing-back, or full-back.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1912–1989 · Hungary
János József Kádár was a Hungarian Communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
Musician
1846–1923 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1894–1971 · Hungary
Paul Lukas was a Hungarian actor.
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1916–1999 · United States
Louis Thomas Hardin, known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments.
Musician
1860–1909 · Spain
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso composer, conductor, and pianist. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also exerted a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers.
Napoleón, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1667–1754 · France
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory.
Joseph Highmore, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1865–1931 · Finland
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century. He is considered a pioneer of a distinctly Finnish national art, and his work is regarded as a very important aspect of Finnish national identity.
Unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1602–1674 · Kingdom of France
Philippe de Champaigne was a Brabant-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of French Baroque painting. He was a founding member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris, the premier art institution in the Kingdom of France during the Ancien Régime.
After Philippe de Champaigne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1700–1760 · Germany
Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major figure of 18th-century Protestantism.
Balthasar Denner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1900–1984 · Italy
Eduardo De Filippo OMRI, also known mononymously as Eduardo, was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli milionaria.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1914–1978 · United Kingdom
Geoffrey Gilyard Unsworth was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly ninety feature films during a career that wound up spanning over more than forty years.
Author
1822–1896 · France
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
Nadar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1946 · Italy
Nicola Piovani is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and film, television, and theatrical scores. A graduate of the Verdi Conservatory and pupil of Manos Hatzidakis, he began his professional career in the 1960s, and has written over 190 film scores since 1968.
Nicola_Piovani.jpg: Kindly granted by spoletoweb from Spoleto, Italy derivative work: RanZag (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1987 · Nigeria
Nnenna Rachael Okonkwo, popularly known as Nkoli Nwa Nsukka, is a Nigerian film actress. She is best known for her leading role in the film of the same name. She serves as a brand ambassador for Aquadon Water.
DoctorNigeria, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Urban Outfitters · retail
1947 · United States
Richard Hayne is the president and CEO of Urban Outfitters, an American chain of clothing retailers. Hayne has served as chairman and president since 1976. In 2012, he became CEO following the retirement of Glen Senk.
Investor
1730–1795 · Dutch Republic
Pieter Boddaert was a Dutch physician and naturalist.
P. van Dijk/Jacobus Houbraken, legend from P. dela Rue (very old book cover), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1814–1879 · Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the hand pumped Geissler mercury vacuum pump in the mid-1850's and in 1857, the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube; these two inventions…
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1963 · Russia
Filaret Galchev is a Russian-Greek businessman who is former owner and chairman of Eurocement group.
Athlete
1936–2010 · Japan
Hiroshi Saeki is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Athlete
1941 · Japan
Kenji Tochio is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
This page lists 42 people born on May 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 May 26. Read the full methodology.
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