Famous people born in the year 1926

Betsy Palmer was an American actress, known as a regular supporting movie and Broadway actress and television guest star, as a panelist on the game show Ive Got a Secret, and later for playing the murderous serial killer mother, Pamela Voorhees in the popular slasher film Friday the 13th.....
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Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.....
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James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.....
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Alexander Porter Butterfield is a retired U.S. military officer, public servant, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon . He revealed the existence of White House tapes during the Watergate scandal investigation but had no involvement in the scandal. In 1973, he became Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration.....
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Betty Skelton Erde was a land speed record holder and aerobatics pilot who set 17 aviation and automobile records. She was known as The First Lady of Firsts, and helped create opportunities for women in aviation, auto racing, astronautics and advertising.....
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Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer, poet and filmmaker from Assam. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, have become popular among the people of Assam, besides West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have intr....
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Frederick Durham Sulcer , known as Sandy Sulcer, was an American advertising agency copywriter and executive notable for creating the 1960s Put a Tiger in Your Tank advertising theme for Esso gasoline, now known as ExxonMobil and later as a rainmaker bringing in new clients.....
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James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies . His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover , which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays.....
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Paul Bocuse is a French chef based in Lyon who is famous for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. A student of Eugnie Brazier, he is one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality. Paul Bocuse claimed that Henri Gault first used the term, nouvelle cuisine, to describe food prepared by ....
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Frederick Hubbard Fred Gwynne was an American actor. Gwynne was best known for his roles in the 1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You and The Munsters, as well as his later roles in The Cotton Club, Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny.....
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Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts, a United States Air Force test pilot and a mechanical engineer. He was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice.....
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Leonid Denysenko is a Ukrainian Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. He is notable for the introduction of the graphic art technique of literography. He is the only surviving founding member of the Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia.....
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Kurt Danziger is an academic whose work has focused on the history of psychology, particularly in the 20th century. His innovative contributions to this field have received widespread international recognition.....
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Guy Louis Gabaldon was a United States Marine who, at age 18, captured or persuaded to surrender Japanese soldiers and civilians during the battles for Saipan and Tinian islands in 1944 during World War II. Though Gabaldon was recommended for the Medal of Honor, he received the Silver Star, which was upgraded by the Marine Corps to the Navy Cross in 1960.....
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Paul Edward Lynde was an American actor, comedian and TV personality.....
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Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian actor, comedian, and producer. He appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.....
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Lev Razumovsky a Russian sculptor, painter, graphic artist, medal and toy designer, writer.....
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Dr. Lilli Nielsen was a Danish psychologist in the field of teaching blind children and those with multiple disabilities. She has written several books on the subject.....
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing dumb blonde characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the eras attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a topbilled actress for only a decade, her films grossed 200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon.....
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included f....
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