| Births on November 26 | |||
| Year | Name | Notoriety | Died |
| 1792 | Sarah Moore Grimke | Antislavery advocate; women's rights advocate | 1873 |
| 1832 | Mary Edwards Walker | Physician; women's right leader; only woman to receive Medal of Honor | 1919 |
| 1832 | Louisa May Alcott | Author (Little Women) | |
| 1876 | Willis Haviland Carrier | Inventor (first practical air conditioner) | 7 Oct 1950 |
| 1894 | Norbert Wiener | Mathematician; linguist; philosopher; discovered cybernetics | 18 Mar 1964 |
| 1895 | Bertil Lindblad | Swedish astronomer; discovered Milky Way system | |
| 1899 | Bruno Hauptmann | Criminal; electrocuted for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh infant | 3 Apr 1936 |
| 1905 | George Emlyn Williams | Actor/playwright (David Copperfield) | |
| 1911 | Samuel H. Reshevsky | Polish/US chess grandmaster | |
| 1913 | Frederick Mellinger | Entrepreneur; founded Fredericks Of Hollywood | 2 Jun 1990 |
| 1918 | Patricio Aylwin | President of Chile (1990-94) | |
| 1919 | Frederik Pohl | Sci-fi author; winner of three Hugo awards | |
| 1922 | Charles M. Schulz | Cartoonist; created Peanuts comic-strip | 12 Feb 2000 |
| 1925 | Linda Hunt | Actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado) | |
| 1931 | Adolfo Perez | Winner of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize | |
| 1933 | Robert Goulet | Singer, stage actor | |
| 1937 | Boris Borisovich | Doctor; cosmonaut (Voskhod I) | |
| 1938 | Rich Little | Impressionist; actor; comedian; does over 200 characterizations | |
| 1938 | Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock] |
Hall of Famer; singer; songwriter; dancer; actress | |
| 1945 | John McVie | Rock bassist; member of Fleetwood Mac | |
| 1956 | Doug Fowler | Adventurer, juggler, world-traveler, entrepreneur, author (of this web site) | |
