26 August: today's birthdays

• Guillaume Apollinaire - Pseudonym adopted by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apollinaris de Wąż-Kostrowicky, French poet of Polish descent, born in Italy
• Chris Boardman - English racing cyclist
• Émile Boirac - French philosopher and psychologist
• Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu - Real name of Albanian Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
• John Buchan - Scottish novelist and politician
• Daphne Caruana Galizia - Maltese investigative journalist and blogger, born Daphne Anne Vella
• Julio Cortázar - Argentine author
• Macaulay Culkin - American actor best known for his role as Kevin McCallister in the film Home Alone and all its sequels
• Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier - French chemist
• Marcus Du Sautoy - English mathematician and writer
• Peggy Guggenheim - American art collector
• James Harden - American basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets in the NBA.
• Nico Muhly - American composer
• Jules Romains - Pseudonym of French writer Louis Henri Jean Farigoule
• Renato Soru - Italian politician and entrepreneur