Rune Lindström (79)
May 26th, 1944

Swedish olympic alpine skier – Rune Lindström was born in Sollefteå (Place in Sweden) on May 26th, 1944 and is 79 years old today.

Other personalities born on May 26

65

Wayne Hussey

English musician, singer of The Mission

*May 26th, 1958, Bristol

74

Jeremy Corbyn

Former Leader of the British Labour Party, MP for Islington North

*May 26th, 1949, Chippenham

65

Margaret Colin

American actress

*May 26th, 1958, Brooklyn

81

Peggy Lee

American recording artist; singer, songwriter, composer and actress (1920-2002)

*May 26th, 1920, Jamestown †January 21st, 2002, Los Angeles

67

Mehdi El Glaoui

French-Moroccan actor and director

*May 26th, 1956, Choisy-le-Roi

60

Simon Armitage

British poet, playwright, and novelist

*May 26th, 1963, Huddersfield

37

Alexander Pushkin

Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)

*May 26th, 1799, Moscow †January 29th, 1837, Saint Petersburg

89

Walter Rudersdorf

German teacher

*May 26th, 1926, Ellar †June 1st, 2015

57

Helena Bonham Carter

British actress (born 1966)

*May 26th, 1966, Islington

72

John Wayne

American actor (1907–1979)

*May 26th, 1907, Winterset †June 11th, 1979, Westwood

61

Sally Ride

American astronaut and physicist (1951-2012)

*May 26th, 1951, Los Angeles †July 23rd, 2012, La Jolla

94

Roy Dotrice

British actor (1923–2017)

*May 26th, 1923, Bailiwick of Guernsey †October 16th, 2017, London

80

Tony Maylam

British film director

*May 26th, 1943, London

85

William Bolcom

American composer

*May 26th, 1938, Seattle

72

Ramón Calderón

Spanish lawyer

*May 26th, 1951, Palencia

85

Horst Tappert

German actor (1923–2008)

*May 26th, 1923, Elberfeld †December 13th, 2008, Planegg

75

Stevie Nicks

American singer and songwriter

*May 26th, 1948, Phoenix

64

Al Jolson

Lithuanian-born American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886–1950)

*May 26th, 1886, Seredžius †October 23rd, 1950, San Francisco

59

Lenny Kravitz

American musician and actor (born 1964)

*May 26th, 1964, New York City

84

Robert Morley

British actor (1908–1992)

*May 26th, 1908, Semley †June 3rd, 1992, Reading

77

Nicola Piovani

Italian film composer

*May 26th, 1946, Rome

85

Teresa Stratas

Greek-Canadian-American singer

*May 26th, 1938, Toronto

64

Ole Bornedal

Danish film director

*May 26th, 1959, Nørresundby

74

Ward Cunningham

American computer programmer who developed the first wiki

*May 26th, 1949, Michigan City

77

Ruprecht Polenz

German politician

*May 26th, 1946, Denkwitz

74

Pam Grier

American actress

*May 26th, 1949, Winston-Salem

66

Ulrike Lunacek

Austrian politician

*May 26th, 1957, Krems

69

Wolfgang Sidka

German footballer-manager

*May 26th, 1954, Lengerich

33

Brian Patrick Butler

American actor

*May 26th, 1990, San Diego

46

Luca Toni

Italian association football player

*May 26th, 1977, Pavullo nel Frignano

Also born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

79

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

79

Chris Hillman

American musician

*December 4th, 1944, Los Angeles

79

Arne Lindtner Næss

Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter

*December 19th, 1944, Bergen

79

George Lucas

American filmmaker (born 1944)

*May 14th, 1944, Modesto

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer and songwriter

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris

76

Alan Parker

English film producer and director (1944-2020)

*February 14th, 1944, Islington †July 31st, 2020, London

80

Rakel Surlien

Norwegian judge and politician

*February 10th, 1944, Svelvik

73

Wolfgang Bochow

Badminton player

*May 26th, 1944, Brunswick †September 14th, 2017, Siegburg

72

László Csendes

Hungarian actor (1944-2017)

*September 21st, 1944, Rimavská Sobota †March 24th, 2017

72

Sibylle Tönnies

German opinion journalist, sociologist and jurist

*November 24th, 1944, Potsdam †March 25th, 2017

Rune Lindström