Famous People Born on December 26

Gaby Colebunders
1972
Belgian politician
George Dewey
1837
American admiral (d. 1917)
Wilhelm Xylander
1532
German scholar and academic (d. 1576)
Johannes François Snelleman
1852
Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (d. 1938)
Ernst Moritz Arndt
1769
German writer and poet (d. 1860)
Maurice Utrillo
1883
French painter (d. 1955)
Leonardo Ghiraldini
1984
Italian rugby player
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1803
Estonian physician and author (d. 1882)
Alejo Carpentier
1904
Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (d. 1980)
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
1953
Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia
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William Stephens
1859
American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
Clemens Maria Hofbauer
1751
Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1820)
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