People born on December 26

Mao Zedong

1st Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)

Charles Babbage

English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer (1791-1871)

Henry Miller

American novelist (1891–1980)

Yun Chi-ho

Korean politician and resistance activist (1864-1945)

Jared Leto

American actor and singer

Hugo Lloris

French footballer

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Fourth president of Estonia

José Ramos-Horta

2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate

Lars Ulrich

Danish drummer

Kit Harington

English actor

Alejo Carpentier

Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904–1980)

Aaron Ramsey

Welsh association football player (born 1990)

Denis Cheryshev

Russian footballer

Norman Angell

British politician (1872-1967)

Jo Jung-suk

South Korean actor (1980-)