October 26, 1945

1945Pat Conroy, American author (died 2016)^[†]

Donald Patrick Conroy was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the last two being nominated for Oscars. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th-century American Southern literature.

1945Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author (died 2021)^[†]

Demetris Th. Gotsis was a Greek poet and author residing in Cyprus. He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received musical education since his parents were trained opera singers.

1945Nancy Davis Griffeth, American computer scientist and academic^[†]

Nancy Davis Griffeth is an American computer scientist notable for approaches to the feature interaction problem. In 2014, she is a professor at Lehman College of The City University of New York and is modelling biological systems in computational biology.

1945Jaclyn Smith, American actress and producer^[†]

Jaclyn Smith is an American actress. She is most notable for her role as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels (1976–1981), and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. She reprised the role with cameo appearances in the films Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) and Charlie's Angels (2019). Her other films include Nightkill (1980) and Déjà Vu (1985). Beginning in the 1980s, she began developing and marketing her own brands of clothing and perfume.

1945Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (born 1863)^[†]

Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.

1945Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (born 1878)^[†]

Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.