Famous people born on 26 November

• Tina TurnerAmerican-born Swiss singer and songwriter · 1939–2023
  83 yrs
• Ferdinand de SaussureSwiss linguist and philosopher · 1857–1913
  55 yrs
• Eugène IonescoRomanian-French playwright · 1909–1994
  84 yrs
• Norbert WienerAmerican mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence · 1894–1964
  69 yrs
• Karl Ziegler ↗German chemist · 1898–1973
  74 yrs
• William Cowper ↗English poet and hymnodist · 1731–1800
  68 yrs
• Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ↗Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009 · 1939–2025
  85 yrs
• Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) ↗Empress consort of Russia · 1847–1928
  80 yrs
• Ellen G. White ↗American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church · 1827–1915
  87 yrs
• Maud of Wales ↗British princess (1869–1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938 · 1869–1938
  68 yrs
• Heinrich Brüning ↗German chancellor · 1885–1970
  84 yrs
• Aurel Stein ↗Hungarian-British archaeologist · 1862–1943
  80 yrs
• Charles M. Schulz ↗American cartoonist, comics writer, comic book artist · 1922–2000
  77 yrs
• Velupillai Prabhakaran ↗Founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization in Sri Lanka · 1954–2009
  54 yrs
• Frederik Pohl ↗American science fiction writer and editor · 1919–2013
  93 yrs
• Patricio Aylwin ↗Chilean politician and former president · 1918–2016
  97 yrs
• Héctor Scarone ↗Uruguayan footballer · 1898–1967
  68 yrs
• Samuel Reshevsky ↗American chess player · 1911–1992
  80 yrs
• Charles Adolphe Wurtz ↗French chemist · 1817–1884
  66 yrs
• Ryszard Kaczorowski ↗Polish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile · 1919–2010
  90 yrs
• Willis Carrier ↗American inventor · 1876–1950
  73 yrs
• John Alexander Reina Newlands ↗British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements · 1837–1898
  60 yrs
• Mihály Babits ↗Hungarian poet, translator · 1883–1941
  57 yrs
• Yamamoto Gonnohyōe ↗Prime Minister of Japan · 1852–1933
  81 yrs
• Françoise Gilot ↗French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso · 1921–2023
  101 yrs
• Boris Borisovich Yegorov ↗Soviet cosmonaut · 1937–1994
  56 yrs
• John Harvard ↗English-American clergyman and philanthropist · 1607–1638
  30 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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