Famous people born in 1926
Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, popularly known as Jimmy Savile, was an English DJ, radio and television personality
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is a pop singer known for his studio album ‘The Beat of My Heart.’
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin is a retired politician and a former President of China
Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom was an American astronaut, mechanical engineer, and US test pilot
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger was an eminent Academy Award winning English film director
Robert Fogel
Robert Fogel was an American economic historian and scientist who won a share of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Ben Roy Mottelson
Ben Roy Mottelson is an American-Danish nuclear physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee is a distinguished Chinese-American physicist, who received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1957
David H. Hubel
David Hunter Hubel was a Nobel Prize winning Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his work on the structure and function of the visual cortex