26 May: today's birthdays

• Helena Bonham Carter - English actress. She had a long relationship with Kenneth Branagh and after with Tim Burton
• Matt Busby - Scottish soccer coach and player
• Jeremy Corbyn - English politician. He is currently the leader of the Labour Party
• Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello - Colombian soccer player
• Miles Davis - American jazz musician and composer
• Edmond de Goncourt - French writer and literary critic. He was the founder of the Académie Goncourt
• Olaf Gulbransson - Norwegian painter and designer
• Alan Hollinghurst - English writer, poet, and translator. He wrote The Folding Star and The Line of Beauty 
• János Kádár - Hungarian Politician
• Lenny Kravitz - American singer, songwriter, and musician, born Leonard Albert Kravitz 
• Dorothea Lange - American photographer, born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn
• Colin Vearncombe - English singer-songwriter, best known as Black. He reached the success with the internationally acclaimed single "Wonderful Life in 1987