These authors were born on the 26st of August

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Mother Teresa (1910-1997) - Macedonian religion
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) - who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels.
Ben Bradlee (1921-) - US newspaper editor
John Buchan (1875-1940) - best known for his swift-paced adventure stories.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - Italian explorer
Macaulay Culkin (1980-)
Jim Davis (1915-1981)
Geraldine Ferraro (1935-) - US candidate
Geraldine A. Ferraro (1935-)
Lee De Forest (1873-1961) - of the Audion vacuum tube.
Zona Gale (1874-)
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979)
Mehgan Heaney-Grier (1977-)
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) - English writer
Gerald Kersh (1911-)
Peter Larkin (1926-)
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) - regarded as the father of modern chemistry.
Shirley Manson (1966-) - Scottish singer (Garbage)
Branford Marsalis (1960-)
Charles Richet (1850-1935) - discover of and coiner of the term anaphylaxis. Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1913.
Tom Ridge (1945-)
Allison Robertson (1979-)
Jules Romains (1885-1972)
Buster Smith (1904-)
Ben Wattenberg (1933-) - US columnist, commentat

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