Famous people born in the year 1926

Hellmuth Kolbe was a musician and an audio recording and acoustics pioneer.....
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Georgi Aleksandrovich Yumatov was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1947 and 1994.....
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Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as Maybellene , Roll Over Beethoven , Rock and Roll Music and Johnny B. Goode , Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.....
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz born August 13, 1926, known as Fidel Castro, is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a MarxistLeninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a oneparty Communist state industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reform....
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Claude Stout Brinegar was the third United States Secretary of Transportation, serving from February 2, 1973 to February 1, 1975. Holding a Ph.D from Stanford University in economic research, Brinegar had previously been an oil company executive. Brinegar was Secretary of Transportation during the 1973 oil crisis.....
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Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. , was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of Florida . He was the first Republican Governor of Florida since Reconstruction.....
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Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson SC, OCC, TC was the third President of Trinidad and Tobago, serving from 19 March 1997 to 17 March 2003. He was also Trinidad and Tobagos third Prime Minister, serving in that capacity from 18 December 1986 to 17 December 1991. He is internationally recognized for his proposal that eventually led to the founding of the International Criminal Court.....
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Herbert Ehrenberg is a retired German politician.....
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Bal Keshav Thackeray was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a rightwing Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western state of Maharashtra. Holding views attacking Muslims and once praising Adolf Hitler, he was known for his inflammatory writings and was seen as a good orator. A controversial leader, he had a large political influence in the state, especially in Mumbai his party frequently used violent means against its detractors. Thackeray was blamed for inciting violen....
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Erhard Eppler is a German Social Democratic politician and founder of the GTZ.....
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Helen Barbara Howard, RCA was a Canadian painter, wood engraver, draughtsperson, bookbinder and designer who produced work consistently throughout her life, from her graduation in 1951 from the Ontario College of Art until her unexpected death in 2002.....
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Mohammad Abdus Salam NI, SPk, KBE , was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. Salam, a major figure in 20th century theoretical physics, shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the landmark electroweak unification. He was the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize .....
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John Eric Bartholomew, OBE , known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the awardwinning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambes death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the seaside resort of Morecambe.....
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Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. He currently works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. First appointed Federal Reserve chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive fouryear intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, after the secondlongest tenure in the position .....
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Ignat Kaneff is a Bulgarianborn Canadian business magnate and philanthropist.....
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Francis Bible Schulte, O.H.S. was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of WheelingCharleston from 1985 to 1989, and Archbishop of New Orleans from 1989 to 2002.....
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Hosea Lorenzo Williams was a United States civil rights leader, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician. He may be best known as a trusted member of fellow famed civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr.s inner circle. Under the banner of their flagship organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King depended on Williams to organize and stir masses of people into nonviolent direct action in myriad protest campai....
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Dolphin Dunnaha Overton III was a United States Air Force aviator who became a flying ace during the Korean War. Overtons controversial tour in Korea led to his being removed from combat and denied his medals and victory credits, but he was subsequently reinstated with these.....
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Oliver Williams Dillard, Sr. was a retired United States Army major general, the fifth black officer in the U.S. Army to attain flag rank. He was a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame and Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and Fort Benning, Georgia respectively.....
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Karel Reisz was a British filmmaker who was active in postWorld War II Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema.....
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