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• 1926–2017Hugh HefnerAmerican magazine publisherApril 9
• 1926–2016Harper LeeAmerican novelistApril 28
• 1926–2026Alan GreenspanAmerican economistMarch 6
• 1926–1997Allen GinsbergAmerican poet and writerJune 3
• 1926–1967John ColtraneAmerican jazz saxophonistSeptember 23
• 1926–2014Alfredo Di StéfanoArgentine footballerJuly 4
• 1926–2010Patricia NealAmerican stage and film actressJanuary 20
• 1926–1991Klaus KinskiGerman actorOctober 18
• 1926–2023Tony BennettAmerican singerAugust 3
• 1926–2021Cloris LeachmanAmerican actressApril 30
• 1926–2011Sathya Sai BabaIndian spiritual godmanNovember 23
• 1926–2017Harry Dean StantonAmerican actorJuly 14
• 1926–2016George MartinEnglish record producerJanuary 3
• 1926–2012Andy GriffithAmerican actor and singerJune 1
• 1926–2020Valéry Giscard d'EstaingPresident of France from 1974 to 1981February 2
• 1926–1996Abdus SalamPakistani theoretical physicistJanuary 29
• 1926–1967Gus GrissomAmerican astronautApril 3
• 1926–2018Ingvar KampradSwedish businessmanMarch 30
• 1926–2022Thích Nhất HạnhVietnamese Buddhist monk and activistOctober 11
• 1926–2010Peter GravesAmerican actorMarch 18
• 1926–2024Roger CormanAmerican film director and producerApril 5
• 1926–2013Richard MathesonAmerican author and screenwriterFebruary 20
• 1926–2003Richard CrennaAmerican actorNovember 30
• 1926–2014Jack BrabhamAustralian racing driver and motorsport executiveApril 2
• 1926–2014Ian PaisleyNorthern Irish politician and religious leaderApril 6
• 1926–2000Julie LondonAmerican actress and singerSeptember 26
• 1926–2024Norman JewisonCanadian filmmakerJuly 21
• 1926–1995Murray RothbardAmerican economistMarch 2
• 1926–2011Jimmy SavileEnglish media personality and sex offenderOctober 31
• 1926–2022Irene PapasGreek actress and singerSeptember 3
• 1926–2003Leopoldo GaltieriArgentine general and military rulerJuly 15
• 1926–1977René GoscinnyFrench comic book writerAugust 14
• 1926–1969Jeffrey HunterAmerican actorNovember 25
• 1926–2019Julie AdamsAmerican actressOctober 17
• 1926–2016Andrzej WajdaPolish film directorMarch 6
• 1926–1989Christine JorgensenAmerican transgender actressMay 30
• 1926–1998John DerekAmerican actor and filmmakerAugust 12
• 1926–2000Steve ReevesAmerican bodybuilder and actorJanuary 21
• 1926–2003John SchlesingerEnglish film and theatre directorFebruary 16
• 1926–2006Mickey HargitayHungarian-American actor and bodybuilderJanuary 6
• 1926–2005John FowlesEnglish novelistMarch 31
• 1926–2016Dario FoItalian playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, director, and politicianMarch 24
• 1926–1945Margot FrankOlder sister of Anne Frank and Holocaust victimFebruary 16
• 1926–2008George HabashFounder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineAugust 1
• 1926–1984Big Mama ThorntonAmerican blues singer (Willie Mae Thornton; 1926–1984)December 11
• 1926–2012Bal ThackerayIndian cartoonist and politicianJanuary 23
• 1926–2022Yusuf al-QaradawiEgyptian-born Qatari imamSeptember 9
• b. 1926Jean-Pierre SerreFrench mathematicianSeptember 15 · Turned 100 this year
• 1926–2000Jean PetersAmerican actressOctober 15
• 1926–2018Paul BocuseFrench chefFebruary 11
• 1926–1973Ingeborg BachmannAustrian poet and authorJune 25
• 1926–2009Vivian MaierAmerican photographerFebruary 1
• 1926–2002Ivan IllichAustrian Catholic priest and philosopherSeptember 4
• 1926–2017John BergerBritish painter, writer and art criticNovember 5
• 1926–2006Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-SabahEmir of Kuwait from 1977 to 2006June 29
• b. 1926Abdoulaye WadePresident of Senegal from 2000 to 2012May 29 · Turned 100 this year
• 1926–2024Tsung-Dao LeeChinese-American physicistNovember 24
• 1926–2011Necmettin ErbakanPrime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997October 29
• 1926–2004Elisabeth Kübler-RossSwiss-American psychiatristJuly 8
• 1926–2017Michael BondEnglish authorJanuary 13