| 72931 | June 26 | Birth | 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572) |
| 72932 | June 26 | Birth | 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612) |
| 72933 | June 26 | Birth | 1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (d. 1708) |
| 72934 | June 26 | Birth | 1689 – Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic (d. 1769) |
| 72935 | June 26 | Birth | 1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) |
| 72936 | June 26 | Birth | 1699 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French businesswoman (d. 1777) |
| 72937 | June 26 | Birth | 1702 – Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and educator (d. 1751) |
| 72938 | June 26 | Birth | 1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (d. 1767) |
| 72939 | June 26 | Birth | 1726 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796) |
| 72940 | June 26 | Birth | 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (d. 1817) |
| 72941 | June 26 | Birth | 1764 – Jan Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician (d. 1812) |
| 72942 | June 26 | Birth | 1786 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet and author (d. 1855) |
| 72943 | June 26 | Birth | 1796 – Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer (d. 1847) |
| 72944 | June 26 | Birth | 1798 – Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic (d. 1873) |
| 72945 | June 26 | Birth | 1817 – Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (d. 1848) |
| 72946 | June 26 | Birth | 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general (d. 1893) |
| 72947 | June 26 | Birth | 1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906) |
| 72948 | June 26 | Birth | 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1907) |
| 72949 | June 26 | Birth | 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (d. 1896) |
| 72950 | June 26 | Birth | 1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (d. 1901) |
| 72951 | June 26 | Birth | 1852 – Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter (d. 1930) |
| 72952 | June 26 | Birth | 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937) |
| 72953 | June 26 | Birth | 1865 – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-American historian and author (d. 1959) |
| 72954 | June 26 | Birth | 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker (d. 1923) |
| 72955 | June 26 | Birth | 1869 – Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (d. 1954) |
| 72956 | June 26 | Birth | 1880 – Mitchell Lewis, American actor (d. 1956) |
| 72957 | June 26 | Birth | 1881 – Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1960) |
| 72958 | June 26 | Birth | 1885 – Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (d. 1950) |
| 72959 | June 26 | Birth | 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, American author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) |
| 72960 | June 26 | Birth | 1893 – Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and author (d. 1989) |