Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 26

Births

• 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
• 1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
• 1894 - Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
• 1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
• 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
• 1939 - John Howard, (pictured) 25th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
• 1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
• 1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
• 1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress

Deaths

• 1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
• 1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
• 1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)

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