People born on January 26

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Romanian communist leader from 1965 to 1989

Douglas MacArthur

United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea (1880–1964)

José Mourinho

Portuguese association football manager and former player

Paul Newman

American actor and film director (1925–2008)

Ellen DeGeneres

American television hoste

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO

Charles XIV John of Sweden

King of Sweden and Norway between 1818–1844. Prince of Ponte Corvo 1806–1810 and French field marshal

Angela Davis

American political activist, scholar, and author

Claude Adrien Helvétius

French philosopher; (1715-1771)

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer and poet (1778-1827)

Wayne Gretzky

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1961)

Polykarp Kusch

German-American physicist (1911-1993)

Jörg Haider

Austrian politician (1950-2008)

Edward Sapir

American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)

Ilya Ehrenburg

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)