26 March: today's birthdays

• Alan Arkin - American actor, film director and musician, born  Alan Wolf Arkin. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 for his role as Edwin Hoover in the film Little Miss Sunshine
• John Langshaw Austin - English philosopher of language
• Pierre Boulez - French composer, pianist, and conductor
• Michel Jules Alfred Bréal - French philologist and linguist
• Michel Bréal - French philologist and linguist
• James Caan - American actor, born James Edmund Caan.
• André Cluytens (B) - Belgian-born French conductor
• André Cluytens (FR) - Belgian-born French conductor
• Gregory Corso - American poet
• Richard Dawkins - English ethologist and biologist born in Kenya. He wrote The God Delusion
• Pál Erdős - Hungarian mathematician
• Paul Erdős - Hungarian mathematician
• Hubert Gravelot - French painter and engraver
• Guccio Gucci - Italian businessman and fashion designer. He was the founder of the fashion house Gucci
• ​Elizabeth Jane Howard - Brtitish writer best known for her  family saga The Cazalet Chronicles.
• Erica Jong - American author, essayist and poet
  
• Keira Knightley - English actress, born Keira Christina Knightley
• Martin McDonagh - English playwright, screenwriter, and film director, of Irish descent. In 2006, he won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for his short film Six Footer
• Diana Ross - American singer, songwriter, and actress, born ​Diana Ernestine Earle Ross
• Patrick Süskind - German writer and screenwriter. He wrote the best seller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 
• Tennesse Williams - American dramatist
• ​Ramy Youssef - American stand-up comedian, actor and writer of Egyptian descent