Famous people born in the year 1926

Elizabeth II is, and has been since her accession in 1952, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Head of the Commonwealth. She is also Queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.....
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Irene Papas is a retired Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.....
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Sir John Arthur Jack Brabham, AO , OBE was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960, and 1966. He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name.....
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Fabrizio de Miranda was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.....
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Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.....
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Dario Fo is an Italian actorplaywright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner of the italian extremist leftwing, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. Arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre, much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of illegitimate forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of com....
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Edward John Barrington DouglasScottMontagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu was an English Conservative politician well known in Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause clbre in British gay history following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for homosexual sex, a charge he denied. Having inherited his title at the age of two, he held his peerage for the third longest time anyone has held a British peerage .....
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Sir David Frederick Attenborough t n b r OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA is an English broadcaster and naturalist.....
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Eugene Jules Gene Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the culthit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics classic horror series. He cocreated the Falcon, the first AfricanAmerican superhero in mainstream comics, and the noncostumed, supernatural vampire hunter Blade, which went on to appear in a series of films starring Wesley Snipes.....
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Harold Gonsalves was a United States Marine Corps private first class who was killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. He was awarded the nations highest military award for valor, the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for his heroic action on April 15, 1945.....
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Edward Joseph Ed Derwinski was an American politician who served as the first Cabinetlevel United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H. W. Bush from March 15, 1989 to September 26, 1992. He previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1983, representing south and southwest suburbs of Chicago.....
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Jos Efran Ros Montt is a Guatemalan politician who was President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983. An army general, his time in office was marked by the Guatemalan Civil War. Years later, he served as president of Congress.....
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George Brecht , born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avantgarde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson amp Johnson, and Mobil Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus, the international group of avantgarde artists centred on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas death in 1978.....
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David McClure RSA RSW was a Scottish artist and lecturer. He is most well known for his paintings of still lifes, interiors, figures and family portraits as well as his landscape and townscape paintings of Scotland, Italy, Sicily and Spain where he lived and travelled throughout his life.....
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Christine Lamson White was an American actress, most noted for her role in the television show Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.....
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Sir George Henry Martin CBE was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician. He was referred to as the Fifth Beatle, including by Paul McCartney, in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles original albums. Martin had 30 numberone hit singles in the United Kingdom and 23 numberone hits in the United States.....
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Christopher Hills was an Englishborn author, philosopher, and scientist, popularly described as the Father of Spirulina for popularizing spirulina cyanobacteria as a food supplement. He also wrote 30 books on consciousness, meditation, yoga and spiritual evolution, divining, world government, aquaculture, and personal health.....
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Sri Lankabhimanya Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, AM is a Sri Lankan lawyer who was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 2000, serving as its VicePresident from 1997 to 2000. Weeramantry was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Monash University.....
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