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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, October 26


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Births

* 1978 Phil Brooks Better known by his ring name, CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler.
* 1971 Jim Butcher American novelist, most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files.
* 1971 Anthony Rapp American stage and film actor.
* 1963 Natalie Merchant American singer, song-writer, musician and poet who first gained fame in the group 10,000 Maniacs which she co-founded in 1981.
* 1959 Paul Farmer American professor and physician, currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1959 Evo Morales Popularly known as Evo, is the President of Bolivia, the country's first Amerindian president.
* 1956 Mike Godwin American attorney and author.
* 1954 Stephen L. Carter American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and novelist.
* 1952 Andrew Motion English poet, novelist and biographer.
* 1947 Hillary Clinton 67th United States Secretary of State.
* 1942 Milton Nascimento Brazilian singer, composer and musician.
* 1938 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Dutch physicist, best-known for his discovery of supergravity with Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z Freedman.
* 1919 Muhammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran from 1941 until he was deposed in 1979 by the Islamic Revolution.
* 1917 Ithiel de Sola Pool Pioneer in the development of social science.
* 1916 Francois Mitterrand French politician.
* 1912 Don Siegel Influential American film director and producer.
* 1893 Oliver P. Smith General in the United States Marine Corps and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
* 1886 Vincent Starrett Co-founder of the Baker Street Irregulars.
* 1883 Napoleon Hill American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.
* 1846 C. P. Scott British journalist, publisher and politician.
* 1818 Elizabeth Payson Prentiss Author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869).
* 1800 Helmuth von Moltke Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871 and then of the Great General Staff from 1871 to 1888.
* 1759 Georges Danton Leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety.
* 1697 John Peter Zenger Printer, publisher, editor and journalist whose indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges in 1734 was an important contributing factor to the development of the freedom of the press in America.

Deaths

† 1999 Abraham Polonsky American novelist, screenwriter and film director.
† 1999 Eknath Easwaran Spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature.
† 1989 Charles J. Pedersen American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers.
† 1979 Park Chung-hee Former president of the Rebublic of Korea.
† 1973 Semyon Budyonny Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
† 1957 Nikos Kazantzakis Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.
† 1945 Garrett Fort American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter.
† 1944 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom Youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, was a pianist, author and photographer.
† 1923 Charles Proteus Steinmetz German-American mathematician and electrical engineer.
† 1922 Cargill Gilston Knott Scottish physicist and mathematician, who was a pioneer in seismological]] research.
† 1913 Frederick Rolfe English novelist, short-story writer, eccentric, and would-be Roman Catholic priest.
† 1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States.
† 1865 Charles Miner Member of the U S House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
† 1845 Carolina Nairne Also known as Lady Nairne, was a Scottish songwriter, born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire.
† 1764 William Hogarth Major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art.
† 1751 Philip Doddridge English Nonconformist leader.
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