Famous people born in 1926

Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, popularly known as Jimmy Savile, was an English DJ, radio and television personality

Tony Bennett is a pop singer known for his studio album ‘The Beat of My Heart.’

Jiang Zemin is a retired politician and a former President of China

Gus Grissom was an American astronaut, mechanical engineer, and US test pilot

John Richard Schlesinger was an eminent Academy Award winning English film director

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 is an American-Danish nuclear physicist

Tsung-Dao Lee is a distinguished Chinese-American physicist, who received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1957

Paul Berg is an American biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980

David Hunter Hubel was a Nobel Prize winning Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his work on the structure and function of the visual cortex