September 26, 1928
Donukpa, Dahomey [now Benin]
African French-language novelist, journalist, and short-story writer.
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Olympe Bhely-Quenum September 26, 1928 Donukpa, Dahomey [now Benin] African French-language novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. |
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Cyprian (Odiatu Duaka) Ekwensi September 26, 1921 Minna, Nigeria Ibo novelist, short-story writer, and children's author whose strength lies in his realistic depiction of the forces that have shaped the African city dweller. |
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Harrison (Scott) Brown September 26, 1917 -- December 8, 1986 Sheridan, Wyo., U.S. -- Albuquerque, N.M. American geochemist known for his role in isolating plutonium for its use in the first atomic bombs and for his studies regarding meteorites and the Earth's origin. |
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Anthony (Frederick) Blunt September 26, 1907 -- March 26, 1983 Bournemouth, Hampshire, Eng. -- London British art historian who late in his life was revealed to have been a Soviet spy. |
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Albert Anastasia September 26, 1902 -- October 25, 1957 Tropea, Italy -- New York, N.Y., U.S. Major American gangster. |
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George Gershwin September 26, 1898 -- July 11, 1937 East New York [now in Brooklyn], N.Y., U.S. -- Hollywood, Calif. One of the most significant and popular of American composers. His primary field was the Broadway musical theatre, but important as well are his compositions in which the techniques and forms of art music are . . . |
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Paul VI September 26, 1897 -- August 6, 1978 Concesio, Italy -- Castel Gandolfo Italian pope of the Roman Catholic church (reigned 1963-78) during a period including most of the second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the immediate postconciliar era, in which he issued directives and guidance to a changing . . . |
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva September 26, 1892 -- August 31, 1941 Moscow, Russia -- Yelabuga Russian poet whose verse is distinctive for its staccato rhythms, originality, and directness and who, though little known outside Russia, is considered one of the finest 20th-century poets in the Russian language. |
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Lynd, Robert (Staughton); and Lynd, Helen September 26, 1892 -- November 1, 1970 New Albany, Ind., U.S. -- Warren, Conn. American sociologists, husband and wife who collaborated on the Middletown books, which became classics of sociological literature as well . . . |
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva September 26, 1892 -- August 31, 1941 Moscow, Russia -- Yelabuga Russian poet whose verse is distinctive for its staccato rhythms, originality, and directness and who, though little known outside Russia, is considered one of the finest 20th-century poets in the Russian language. |
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Hans Reichenbach September 26, 1891 -- April 9, 1953 Hamburg, Ger. -- Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. Philosopher and educator (University of Berlin; University of California) who was a leading representative of the Vienna Circle and founder of the Berlin school of logical positivism, a movement that viewed logical statements as revealing only the basic . . . |
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Charles Munch September 26, 1891 -- November 6, 1968 Strassburg, Ger. [now Strasbourg, France] -- Richmond, Va., U.S. Conductor known for his interpretations of works by Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel. |
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Jean Theodore Delacour September 26, 1890 -- November 5, 1985 Paris, Fr. -- Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. French-American aviculturist known for discovering and rearing some of the world's rarest birds. |
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Martin Heidegger September 26, 1889 -- May 26, 1976 Messkirch, Schwarzwald, Ger. -- Messkirch, W.Ger. German philosopher, counted among the main exponents of 20th-century Existentialism. He was an original thinker, a critic of technological society, a leading ontologist of his time, and an influence on a younger generation of continental European cultural . . . |
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T.S. Eliot September 26, 1888 -- January 4, 1965 St. Louis, Mo., U.S. -- London, Eng. American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American . . . |
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Sir Barnes (Neville) Wallis September 26, 1887 -- October 30, 1979 -- Leatherhead, Surrey, Eng. British aeronautical designer and military engineer who invented the innovative "dambuster" bombs used in World War II. |
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A(rchibald) V(ivian) Hill September 26, 1886 -- June 3, 1977 Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng. -- Cambridge British physiologist and biophysicist, who received (with Otto Meyerhof) the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the production of heat in muscles, which helped establish the origin of muscular force in the breakdown of . . . |
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Feng Yu-hsiang September 26, 1882 -- September 1, 1948 Hsing-chi-chen, Chihli [now in Hopeh province], China Chinese warlord, known as the Christian General, who dominated parts of North China from 1918 to 1930. |
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Alfred-Denis Cortot September 26, 1877 -- June 15, 1962 Nyon, Switz. -- Lausanne Conductor, teacher, and one of the outstanding French pianists of the 20th century, known especially for his interpretations of the later Romantic composers. |
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Lewis Wickes Hine September 26, 1874 -- November 3, 1940 Oshkosh, Wis., U.S. -- Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. American photographer who used his art to bring social ills to public attention. |
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Ottokar Czernin, Count September 26, 1872 -- April 4, 1932 Dimokur, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Dymokury, Czech Republic] -- Vienna, Austria Foreign minister of Austria-Hungary (1916-18), whose efforts to disengage his country from its participation in World War I failed to prevent the dissolution of . . . |
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Christian X September 26, 1870 -- April 20, 1947 Charlottenlund, Den. -- Copenhagen King of Denmark (1912-47) who symbolized the nation's resistance to the German occupation during World War II. |
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Winsor McCay September 26, 1869 -- July 26, 1934 Spring Lake, Mich., U.S. American artist who was a pioneer of cartoon films. |
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Arthur B(owen) Davies September 26, 1862 -- October 24, 1928 Utica, N.Y., U.S. -- Florence U.S. painter, printmaker, and tapestry designer known for his idylls of classical fantasy painted in a Romantic style but best remembered for his leadership in introducing modern European painting styles into early 20th-century America. |
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Irving (Addison) Bacheller September 26, 1859 -- February 24, 1950 Pierpont, N.Y., U.S. -- White Plains, N.Y. Journalist and novelist whose books, generally set in upper New York State, are humorous and full of penetrating character delineations, especially of rural types. |
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Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov September 26, 1849 -- 1893 Irkutsk, Siberia, Russian Empire Russian gold-mine proprietor, who was noted for both his financing of explorations in Siberia and for his own expeditions in the area. |
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Joseph Furphy September 26, 1843 -- September 13, 1912 Yering, near Yarra Glen, Vic., Australia -- Claremont, W. Aus., Australia Australian author whose novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. |
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Charles Bradlaugh September 26, 1833 -- January 30, 1891 London -- London British radical and atheist, a freethinker in the tradition of Voltaire and Thomas Paine, prominent throughout most of the second half of the 19th century for his championship of individual liberties. |
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Okubo Toshimichi September 26, 1830 -- May 14, 1878 Kagoshima, Japan -- Tokyo Japanese politician and one of the samurai leaders who in 1868 overthrew the Tokugawa family, which had ruled Japan for 264 years, and restored the government of the emperor. After the Meiji Restoration he spent much of his career helping to establish Japan as a progressive . . . |
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Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar September 26, 1820 -- July 29, 1891 Birsingha, Midnapore district, India Indian educator and social reformer, considered the father of Bengali prose. |
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(Francois-Louis-) Paul Gervais September 26, 1816 -- February 10, 1879 Paris -- Paris Paleontologist and zoologist who succeeded Georges Cuvier and Henri de Blainville as principal French contributor to vertebrate paleontology. |
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(Jean-Louis-Andre-)Theodore Gericault September 26, 1791 -- January 26, 1824 Rouen, Fr. -- Paris Painter who exerted a seminal influence on the development of Romantic art in France. Géricault was a fashionable dandy and an avid horseman whose dramatic paintings reflect his colourful, energetic, and somewhat morbid personality. |
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Nassau William Senior September 26, 1790 -- June 4, 1864 Compton Beauchamp, Berkshire, Eng. -- London British classical economist who exercised much influence in the political affairs of his day. |
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Christopher Hansteen September 26, 1784 -- April 15, 1873 Christiania [now Oslo], Nor. -- Christiania Norwegian astronomer and physicist noted for his research in geomagnetism. |
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John Chapman September 26, 1774 -- March 18, 1845 Leominster, Mass. -- near Fort Wayne, Ind., U.S. Missionary nurseryman of the North American frontier who helped prepare the way for 19th-century pioneers by supplying apple-tree nursery stock throughout the Middle West. |
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Johann (David Ludwig) Yorck von Wartenburg, Graf September 26, 1759 -- October 4, 1830 Potsdam, Prussia [now in Germany] -- Klein-Öls, Silesia [now Oleshnica, Pol.] Prussian field marshal, reformer, and successful commander during the Wars of Liberation (1813-15) against France. His initiative in signing a separate neutrality . . . |
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Joseph-Louis Proust September 26, 1754 -- July 5, 1826 Angers, Fr. -- Angers French chemist who proved (1808) that the relative quantities of any given pure chemical compound's constituent elements remain invariant, regardless of the compound's source, and thus provided crucial evidence in support of John Dalton's "law of definite proportions," which holds . . . |
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Moses Mendelssohn September 26, 1729 -- January 4, 1786 Dessau, Anhalt [Germany] -- Berlin, Prussia German-Jewish philosopher, critic, and Bible translator and commentator who greatly contributed to the efforts of Jews to assimilate to the German bourgeoisie. |
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Friedrich Melchior Grimm, Freiherr von September 26, 1723 -- December 19, 1807 Ratisbon -- Gotha, Saxe-Gotha Critic of German descent who played an important part in the spread of 18th-century French culture throughout Europe. |
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Richard Grenville-Temple Temple, 1st Earl, VISCOUNT COBHAM, BARON COBHAM September 26, 1711 -- September 12, 1779 London, Eng. -- Stowe, near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire English statesman, the brother-in-law of William Pitt, under whom he served as first lord of the Admiralty. |
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Francis Daniel Pastorius September 26, 1651 -- September 1, 1720 Sommerhausen, Bavaria [Germany] -- Germantown, Pa. [now U.S.] German educator, humanitarian, author, and public official who helped settle Pennsylvania and was founder of Germantown, Pa. |
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