List of Famous people who born in 1926
Jean Mill
Jean Mill was a cat breeder and a conservationist who worked to protect the Asian leopard cat. Mill is best known as the founder of the modern Bengal cat breed: Mill successfully crossed the wild Asian leopard cat with a domestic cat, and then backcrossed the offspring through five generations to create the domestic Bengal. Mill made contributions in two other cat breeds: the Himalayan and the standardized version of the Egyptian Mau. Mill and her first husband, Robert Sugden, were involved in a precedent-setting case about the United States government's power to monitor short wave radio communications. She also authored two books.
David Coleman
David Robert Coleman OBE was a British sports commentator and TV presenter who worked for the BBC for 46 years. He covered eleven Summer Olympic Games from 1960 to 2000 and six FIFA World Cups from 1962 to 1982.
Foekje Dillema
Foekje Dillema was a Dutch track and field athlete.
Kin Sugai
Kin Sugai was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for The Funeral. Sugai is famous for her role in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.
Ganpatrao Deshmukh
Ganpatrao Deshmukh was an Indian politician. He was in office for 54 years.
Henri Fertet
Henri Claude Fertet was a French schoolboy and resistance fighter who was executed by the German occupying forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded several national honours. He is known for the letter he wrote to his parents on the morning of his execution, and he has become one of those who symbolise the French Resistance.
Margot Ebert
Margot Elisabeth Ebert was a German actress, presenter, dancer, entertainer and writer.
Margot Frank
Margot Betti Frank was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding. According to the diary of her younger sister, Anne, Margot kept a diary of her own, but no trace of Margot's diary has ever been found. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Fernand Raynaud
André Gustave Fernand Raynaud, best known as Fernand Raynaud, was a French stand-up comic star, an actor and a singer.
Karl Lieffen
Karl Lieffen, born Karel František Lifka, was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films on screen and television between 1949 and 1998.