On This Date
Historic Birthdays
![Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Infant with a Cage 1750 Marble, height 47 cm Musée](https://theredlist.com/media/database/fine_arts/sculpture/18_th_century/Neo-classical/jean_baptiste_pigalle/003-jean-baptiste-pigalle-theredlist.jpg)
Charles XIV John 1/26/1763 – 3/8/1844
French general and later king of Sweden and Norway
Benjamin Franklin Keith 1/26/1846 – 3/26/1914
American impresario
Julia Morgan 1/26/1872 – 2/2/1957
American architect
![Casa Grande's North Tower by Julia Morgan](https://www.adafca.org/workspace/images/NorthTowerCasaGrande-by-JuliaMorgan.jpg)
Frank Costello 1/26/1891 – 2/18/1973
American syndicate gangster
Bessie Coleman 1/26/1892 – 4/30/1926
American aviator
Sean MacBride 1/26/1904 – 1/15/1988
Irish statesman and winner of 1974 Nobel Peace Prize
Jimmy Van Heusen 1/26/1913 – 2/7/1990
American songwriter
Nicolae Ceausescu 1/26/1918 – 12/25/1989
Romanian dictator