October 26th, 1717

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Born on October 26th, 1717 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on October 26th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on October 26th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (October 1717)

Born on October 26th, 1717

Weekday

Tuesday

October 26th, 1717 was a Tuesday.

Age

306

People born on October 26th, 1717 will turn 307 this year (2024), in exactly 181 days .

Zodiac

♏

Scorpio (The Scorpion)

October 24th, 1717 - November 22nd, 1717

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 111,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 51 days, exactly on June 18th, 2024, people who were born on October 26th, 1717 will be 112,000 days old!

111,949 Days

15,992 Weeks

3,678 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on October 26th?

October 26th, 1871

Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.

October 26th, 2001

President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law (pictured), significantly expanding the authority of United States law enforcement agencies.

October 26th, 2000

Following protests against military leader Robert Guéï, Laurent Gbagbo became the president of Ivory Coast.

October 26th, 1977

Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease.

October 26th, 1955

The first buildings in the sacred Oyasato-yakata complex of the Japanese new religious movement Tenrikyo in Tenri, Nara, were completed.

October 26th, 1921

The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.

October 26th, 1905

The Saint Petersburg Soviet held its first meeting, becoming the first elected body in Russia to represent workers.

October 26th, 1902

A group of Russian explorers led by Baron von Toll left their camp on Bennett Island and disappeared without a trace.

October 26th, 1892

Ida B. Wells (pictured) began to publish her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.

October 26th, 1813

War of 1812: British forces and Mohawk allies under Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American attempt to invade Canada.

October 26th, 1597

Japanese invasions of Korea: Thirteen Korean ships commanded by Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated a far larger Japanese invading fleet at the Battle of Myeongnyang in the Myeongnyang Strait.

October 26th, 1341

The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne.

October 26th, 2015

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.

October 26th, 2012

Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made it available on new PCs.

October 26th, 2004

Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 in North America, which sold 12 million units for the PS2, becoming the console's best-selling video game.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 26th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 26th?

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

Melati Daeva Oktavianti

Indonesian badminton player

*October 26th, 1994, Serang City

Carl Koldewey

German explorer (1837-1908)

*October 26th, 1837, Bücken †May 17th, 1908, Hamburg

Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

*October 26th, 1879, Bereslavka †August 21st, 1940, Coyoacán

Diana Ingro

Argentinian actress

*October 26th, 1926, Ramos Mejía †March 23rd, 2017, Buenos Aires

Tilo Prückner

German actor and author

*October 26th, 1940, Augsburg †July 2nd, 2020, Berlin

Seth MacFarlane

American writer, actor, and producer (born 1973)

*October 26th, 1973, Kent

François Mitterrand

21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995

*October 26th, 1916, Jarnac †January 8th, 1996, 7th arrondissement of Paris

Georges Danton

French revolutionary (1759–1794)

*October 26th, 1759, Arcis-sur-Aube †April 5th, 1794, Paris

Bob Hoskins

English actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

Evo Morales

President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019

*October 26th, 1959, Oruro

Domenico Scarlatti

Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti

*October 26th, 1685, Naples †July 23rd, 1757, Madrid

Rita Wilson

American actress, singer and producer

*October 26th, 1956, Hollywood

François Chau

Cambodian American actor

*October 26th, 1959, Phnom Penh

Nicola Adams

British boxer

*October 26th, 1982, Leeds

D. W. Moffett

American actor

*October 26th, 1954, Highland Park

Anthony Rapp

American actor

*October 26th, 1971, Chicago

Johan Helmich Roman

Swedish Baroque composer (1694-1758)

*October 26th, 1694, Stockholm †November 20th, 1758, Ryssby

Alexie Ribes

French actress

*October 26th, 1987, Paris

Greg Zuerlein

American ice dancer

*October 26th, 1988, Cincinnati

Same year
Born in 1717

David Garrick

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

*February 19th, 1717, Hereford †January 20th, 1779, London

Maria Theresa of Austria

Ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)

*May 13th, 1717, Vienna †November 29th, 1780, Vienna

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

*November 16th, 1717, Paris †October 29th, 1783, Paris

Ferdinand Stosch

German theologian (1717–1780)

*December 30th, 1717, Liebenberg †June 3rd, 1780, Detmold

Pedro III of Portugal

King of Portugal

*July 5th, 1717, Lisbon †May 25th, 1786, Sintra

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library

*December 9th, 1717, Stendal †June 8th, 1768, Trieste

Pius VI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799

*December 25th, 1717, Cesena †August 29th, 1799, Valence

Horace Walpole

English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician (1717-1797)

*September 24th, 1717, London †March 2nd, 1797, London

Mustafa III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774

*January 28th, 1717, Constantinople †January 21st, 1774, Constantinople

Jean Dugain

French slave hunter and explorer

*February 23rd, 1717, Saint-Denis †January 1st, 1787

Louis François, Prince of Conti

French noble and art collector (1717-1776)

*August 13th, 1717, Paris †August 2nd, 1776, Paris

George Augustus Eliott

1st Lord Heathfield and Baron of Gibraltar, Army General, Governor of Gibraltar; (1717-1790)

*December 25th, 1717, Roxburghshire †July 6th, 1790, Aachen

Cardinal de Soubise

Catholic cardinal

*December 1st, 1717, Paris †June 28th, 1756, Saverne

Luis de Unzaga

Spanish colonial governor and administrator (1717-1793)

*April 6th, 1717, Málaga †June 21st, 1793, Málaga

Richard Owen Cambridge

British poet

*February 14th, 1717, London †September 17th, 1802, Richmond

Norbert Grund

Czech painter (1717-1767)

*December 4th, 1717, Prague †July 17th, 1767, Prague

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

British Army officer (1717-1797)

*January 29th, 1717, Riverhead †August 3rd, 1797, Montreal Park

Philipp Erasmus Reich

German publisher

*December 1st, 1717, Laubach †December 3rd, 1787, Leipzig

Johann Augustin Dietelmair

*January 1st, 1717, Nuremberg †January 1st, 1785

Johann Stamitz

Czech composer and violinist

*June 19th, 1717, Havlíčkův Brod †March 27th, 1757, Mannheim

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 26th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on October 26th.

National Day, celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality in 1955. (Austria)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Austria

Intersex Awareness Day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_Awareness_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXVI.X.MDCCXVII

26.10.1717

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1717 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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October 26th, 1717

Born on October 26th, 1717

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

Zodiac

♏

Scorpio (The Scorpion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 111,000 days old!

111,949 Days

15,992 Weeks

3,678 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 26th?

Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.

President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law (pictured), significantly expanding the authority of United States law enforcement agencies.

Following protests against military leader Robert Guéï, Laurent Gbagbo became the president of Ivory Coast.

Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease.

The first buildings in the sacred Oyasato-yakata complex of the Japanese new religious movement Tenrikyo in Tenri, Nara, were completed.

The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.

The Saint Petersburg Soviet held its first meeting, becoming the first elected body in Russia to represent workers.

A group of Russian explorers led by Baron von Toll left their camp on Bennett Island and disappeared without a trace.

Ida B. Wells (pictured) began to publish her research on lynching in the United States, for which she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.

War of 1812: British forces and Mohawk allies under Charles de Salaberry repulsed an American attempt to invade Canada.

Japanese invasions of Korea: Thirteen Korean ships commanded by Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated a far larger Japanese invading fleet at the Battle of Myeongnyang in the Myeongnyang Strait.

The Byzantine army proclaimed chief minister John VI Kantakouzenos emperor, triggering a civil war between his supporters and those of John V Palaiologos, the heir to the throne.

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.

Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made it available on new PCs.

Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 in North America, which sold 12 million units for the PS2, becoming the console's best-selling video game.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 26th

Same Day Who's birthday is on October 26th?

Same year Born in 1717

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 26th

Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir, India)

Angam Day (Nauru)

Armed Forces Day (Benin)

Alfred the Great (Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)

Amandus of Strasbourg

Beóán (Bean) of Mortlach

Blessed Celine Borzecka

Cedd

Cuthbert of Canterbury

Demetrius of Thessaloniki

Eadfrith of Leominster

Eata of Hexham

Pope Evaristus (Aristus)

Fulk of Pavia (Roman Catholic Church)

Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heermann and Paul Gerhardt (Lutheran Church)

Quadragesimus

Quodvultdeus

Rusticus of Narbonne

Witta (Albinus) of Büraburg

Eastern Orthodox liturgics

National Day, celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality in 1955. (Austria)

Intersex Awareness Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

26.10.1717

Legend

Leap year

Calendar October 1717

October 1717

Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 111,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 26th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 26th?

Same year
Born in 1717

Calendar
October 1717

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