October 26th, 1857

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Born on October 26th, 1857 – 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 1857)

Born on October 26th, 1857

Weekday

Monday

October 26th, 1857 was a Monday.

Age

166

People born on October 26th, 1857 will turn 167 this year (2024), in exactly 182 days .

Zodiac

♏

Scorpio (The Scorpion)

October 24th, 1857 - November 22nd, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 60,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 186 days, exactly on October 30th, 2024, people who were born on October 26th, 1857 will be 61,000 days old!

60,814 Days

8,687 Weeks

1,998 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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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

Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

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

Carl Koldewey

German explorer (1837-1908)

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

Diana Ingro

Argentinian actress

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

Melati Daeva Oktavianti

Indonesian badminton player

*October 26th, 1994, Serang City

Tilo Prückner

German actor and author

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

François Mitterrand

21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995

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

Bob Hoskins

English actor (1942–2014)

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

Seth MacFarlane

American writer, actor, and producer (born 1973)

*October 26th, 1973, Kent

Evo Morales

President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019

*October 26th, 1959, Oruro

Rita Wilson

American actress, singer and producer

*October 26th, 1956, Hollywood

François Chau

Cambodian American actor

*October 26th, 1959, Phnom Penh

D. W. Moffett

American actor

*October 26th, 1954, Highland Park

Nicola Adams

British boxer

*October 26th, 1982, Leeds

José Ortega Munilla

Spanish journalist and writer (1856-1922)

*October 26th, 1856, Cárdenas †December 30th, 1922, Madrid

Anthony Rapp

American actor

*October 26th, 1971, Chicago

Uhuru Kenyatta

4th President of Republic of Kenya (2013–2022)

*October 26th, 1961, Nairobi

Hamdi Ulukaya

Kurdish-Turkish businessman

*October 26th, 1972, Erzincan

Alexie Ribes

French actress

*October 26th, 1987, Paris

Greg Zuerlein

American ice dancer

*October 26th, 1988, Cincinnati

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

Theo Van Gogh

Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)

*May 1st, 1857, Zundert †January 25th, 1891, Utrecht

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.MDCCCLVII

26.10.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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October 26th, 1857

Born on October 26th, 1857

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

♏

Scorpio (The Scorpion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 60,000 days old!

60,814 Days

8,687 Weeks

1,998 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 1857

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

26.10.1857

Legend

Leap year

Calendar October 1857

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Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 60,000 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 1857

Calendar
October 1857

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