List of Famous people born on October 26th
James Leonard Brierley Smith
James Leonard Brierley Smith, known more commonly as "J. L. B. Smith",, was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long extinct.
Sir Herbert Perrott, 5th Baronet
Sir Herbert Charles Perrott, 5th and 1st Baronet, was an English baronet who succeeded to a 1716 baronetcy in 1886 and was created a baronet in his own right on 21 June 1911 with precedence to his heirs male from the 1716 creation. Since there were no sons, the baronetcies became extinct with his death in 1922.
Joseph Simon Volmar
Joseph Simon Volmar was a Swiss painter and sculptor.
Peter Przygodda
Peter Przygodda was a German filmmaker, best known for editing Wim Wenders' films. Przygodda died of cancer, aged 69, in 2011.
Very Rev. Thomas Brisbane Warren
Therese Wieland
Arthur Middleton Manigault
Arthur Middleton Manigault was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Fabienne Larouche
Evelina Cattermole
Eva Giovanna Antonietta Cattermole, better known as Evelina or Lina Cattermole, was an Italian writer and poet. She also wrote novellas and other works in prose. The majority of her works are signed with the pseudonym Contessa Lara.