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Channing Tatum made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough with the sports comedy film She's the Man (2006) and the dance film Step Up (2006).
Famous Birthdays on April 26
1980 — Channing Tatum
American actor and producer
April 26 has 196 recorded notable births across history, from 121 to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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121 – 2005
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Major events on April 26
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- 1925 Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. Source
- 1994 South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Source
- 1962 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1. Source
- 1915 World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers. Source
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3 mph or 253 km/h during his first-round 2016 Davis Cup match.
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Debra Wilson is the longest-serving original cast member on the sketch comedy series Mad TV, having appeared on the show's first eight seasons from 1995 to 2003.
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Gary Malcolm Wright was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive".
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Hack Wilson's 1930 season with the Cubs is widely considered one of the most memorable individual single-season hitting performances in baseball history.
More major people born on April 26
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1985
John Isner
American tennis player
John Robert Isner is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles and No. 14 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
1962
Debra Wilson
American actress and comedian
Debra Wilson is an American actress, voice actress, puppeteer, and comedian.
1943
Gary Wright
American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023)
Gary Malcolm Wright was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive".
1900
Hack Wilson
American baseball player (died 1948)
Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson was an American Major League Baseball player who played 12 seasons for the New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.
1917
Sal Maglie
American baseball player and coach (died 1992)
Salvatore Anthony Maglie was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), and later a scout and a pitching coach.
1959
Pedro Pierluisi
Puerto Rican politician
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2021 to 2025, having previously been the de facto governor from August 2–7, 2019.
1927
Harry Gallatin
American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Harry Junior "The Horse" Gallatin was an American professional basketball player and coach.
1904
Paul-Émile Léger
Canadian cardinal (died 1991)
Paul-Émile Léger was a Canadian Catholic prelate, educator, missionary, and humanitarian.
1932
Michael Smith
English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
Michael Smith was a British-Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis.
1946
Marilyn Nelson
American poet and author
Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut.
1970
Kristen R. Ghodsee
American ethnographer and academic
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
1933
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN).
1933
Carol Burnett
American actress, singer, and producer
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen.
1992
Aaron Judge
American baseball player
Aaron James Judge is an American professional baseball right fielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).
1970
Melania Trump
Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th…
1977
Samantha Cristoforetti
Italian astronaut
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy.
1989
Kang Daesung
South Korean singer
Kang Dae-sung, better known mononymously as Daesung and his Japanese stage name D-Lite, is a South Korean singer who made his musical debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean boy band Big Bang.
1894
Rudolf Hess
German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987)
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany.
1785
John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851)
John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist.