26 November: today's birthdays

• Elizabeth Blackburn - Australian-American biologist, born Elizabeth Helen Blackburn. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Carol W. Greider and ​Jack W. Szostak.
• Ferdinand de Saussure - Swiss linguist and semiotician. He is considered the father of modern Linguistics
• ​Adam Driver - American actor born Adam Douglas Driver 
• Marija Fёdorovna (Maria Feodorovna) - Danish princess wife of Emperor Alexander III of Russia
• Eugène Ionesco - Romanian-born French writer and dramatist. He is the author of the play The Bald Soprano
• Rita Ora - English singer and actress of Kosovan descent, born Rita Sahatçiu
• ​Perr Schuurs - Dutch professional footballer 
• Marshall Walter Taylor - American racing cyclist, the first African-American to become world champion
• Julien Temple - English film director and documentary filmmaker. He directed Absolute Beginners, with David Bowie
• Tina Turner - American singer, songwriter and actress, born Anna Mae Bullock.
• Norbert Wiener - American mathematician and philosopher. He is considered the originator of cybernetics