The Birthday Gazette

Born on November 26

November 26 birthdays & history

If you were born on November 26, you share a birthday with Tina Turner, Ferdinand de Saussure and Eugène Ionesco. November 26 babies are Sagittarius, with topaz as their birthstone and the chrysanthemum as their birth flower. November 26 is the 331st day of the year in leap years (330th in other years).

Famous people born on November 26

  • 1939Tina Turner, American-Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
  • 1857Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author
  • 1909Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic
  • 1990Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1948Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1894Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher
  • 1990Danny Welbeck, English footballer
  • 1898Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1931Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentinian painter, sculptor, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1731William Cowper, English poet and hymnwriter

What happened on November 26

  • 1805Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
  • 1842The University of Notre Dame was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
  • 1863United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.
  • 1917Being unable to resolve disputes with Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Toronto Blueshirts, the other ice hockey clubs of Canada's National Hockey Association officially agreed to break away and form the National Hockey League.
  • 1917The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • 1917The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
  • 1918The Montenegrin Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
  • 1922Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
  • 1922The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
  • 1924The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy.
  • 1965Astérix, the first French satellite, was launched into orbit by a Diamant rocket from Hammaguir, Algeria.
  • 1977A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.

Also observed on November 26

  • Constitution Day (Abkhazia, Georgia)
  • Constitution Day (India)
  • Republic Day (Mongolia)

Questions, answered

What star sign is November 26?

People born on November 26 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is topaz and their birth flower is the chrysanthemum.

Which famous people were born on November 26?

Tina Turner (1939), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Eugène Ionesco (1909), Rita Ora (1990), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), Norbert Wiener (1894) were all born on November 26.

What happened on November 26 in history?

Among other things: in 1924, The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy; in 1965, Astérix, the first French satellite, was launched into orbit by a Diamant rocket from Hammaguir, Algeria; in 1977, A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.

Can I get a newspaper front page from November 26?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any November 26 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “November 26”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.