26 October: today's birthdays

• Andrea Bargnani - Italian professional basketball player playing in the NBA (National Basketball Association), the North American professional basketball league
• Cristian Eugen Chivu - Romanian soccer player
• Pat Conroy - American writer, born Donald Patrick Conroy. He wrote the novels The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
• Miloš Crnjanski - Serbian writer and poet
• Manuel Estiarte - Former Spanish water polo player
• Baltasar Garzón - Spanish lawyer and magistrate
• Robert Hinde - English ethologist
• Vijay Iyer - American jazz pianist and composer, of Indian descent
• François Mitterand - Frenchpolitician, 21st President of the French Republic
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - Last Shah of Persia, ruler of Iran from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution in 1979
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - American politician. She was First Lady of the United States when married to Bill Clinton
• Tatjana Rojc - Italian politician of Slovenian descent
• Julian Schnabel - American artist, film director, and screenwriter. He directed the films Basquiat and Miral