Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 26

Births

 * 1478 - Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
 * 1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
 * 1907 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
 * 1926 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
 * 1951 - Sally Ride, (pictured) astronaut (d. 2012)
 * 1953 - Michael Portillo, British politician
 * 1948 - Stevie Nicks, American songwriter and actress
 * 1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress

Deaths

 * 604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * 1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
 * 1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)
 * 1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
 * 1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)

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