Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 26

Births

• 1716 - Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771) (pictured)
• 1791 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
• 1837 - George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917)
• 1891 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
• 1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)

Deaths

• 1909 - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)
• 1931 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1974 - Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
• 1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen (b. 1990)