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Jagger has co-written most of the Stones' songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; their songwriting partnership is one of the most successful in rock music history.
Famous Birthdays on July 26
1943 — Mick Jagger
English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
July 26 has 230 recorded notable births across history, from 1030 to 2000. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on July 26
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- 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. Source
- 1948 U.S. president Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States. Source
- 1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. Source
- 1947 Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. Source
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Helen Mirren is the only person to have achieved both the US and UK Triple Crowns of Acting, and has also received the BAFTA Fellowship, Honorary Golden Bear, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Cecil B.
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Robards received numerous accolades and is one of 24 performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting having earned competitive wins for two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Tim Schafer founded Double Fine Productions in July 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts.
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Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D.
More major people born on July 26
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1945
Helen Mirren
English actress
Dame Helen Mirren is an English actor. Regarded amongst Britain's greatest actors, Mirren is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Emmy Awards, a…
1922
Jason Robards
American actor (died 2000)
Jason Nelson Robards Jr. was an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he gained a reputation as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
1967
Tim Schafer
American video game designer, founded Double Fine Productions
Timothy John Schafer is an American video game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in July 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts.
1796
George Catlin
American painter, author, and traveler (died 1872)
George Catlin was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier.
1865
Philipp Scheidemann
German journalist and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (died 1939)
Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
1875
Antonio Machado
Spanish poet and academic (died 1939)
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, simply known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
1980
Robert Gallery
American football player
Robert J. Gallery is an American former professional football player who was an offensive guard for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
1855
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist and philosopher (died 1936)
Ferdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist, economist, and philosopher.
1904
Frank Scott Hogg
Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1951)
Frank Scott Hogg was a Canadian astronomer. Hogg was born in Preston, Ontario to Dr. James Scott Hogg and Ida Barberon.
1933
Norm Siebern
American baseball player (died 2015)
Norman Leroy Siebern was an American professional baseball player and scout.
1968
Jim Naismith
Scottish biologist and academic
James Henderson Naismith is a Scot, Professor of Structural Biology and since autumn of 2023 the Head of the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Science Division (MPLS) Division at the University of Oxford.
1739
George Clinton
American general and politician, 4th Vice President of the United States (died 1812)
George Clinton was an American soldier, statesman, and a prominent Democratic-Republican in the formative years of the United States.
1882
Albert Dunstan
Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Victoria (died 1950)
Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan, KCMG was an Australian politician who served as the 33rd premier of Victoria from 1935 to 1943 and from 1943 to 1945 and as the third deputy premier of Victoria for five days in March 1935.
1997
Sebastian Aho
Finnish ice hockey player
Sebastian Antero Aho is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1980
Dave Baksh
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Dave Baksh also known by his stage name Dave Brownsound, is a Canadian musician best known as the lead guitarist of rock band Sum 41.
1909
Vivian Vance
American actress and singer (died 1979)
Vivian Vance was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, among other…
1993
Taylor Momsen
American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
Taylor Michel Momsen is an American singer, songwriter, musician, model, and actress. Momsen is best known as the lead vocalist of the American rock band The Pretty Reckless. The band formed in 2009.
1920
Bob Waterfield
American football player and coach (died 1983)
Robert Stanton Waterfield was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL).
1893
George Grosz
German painter and illustrator (died 1959)
George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.