Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 26

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[edit] Births

• 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912) (pictured)
• 1911 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
• 1914 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1946 - Pat Sajak, American game show host
• 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
• 1947 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
• 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
• 1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer

[edit] Deaths

• 899 - Alfred the Great
• 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
• 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer (b. 1895)
• 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-born inventor (b. 1889)