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Who died on 26 December?
Celebrities who died on 26 December
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Gerald Ford
American politician, 38th president of the United States
Harry S. Truman
American politician, 33rd president of the United States
Desmond Tutu
South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Brodie Lee
American professional wrestler
Jack Benny
comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer
Howard Hawks
American film director, producer and screenwriter
Gerry Anderson
English TV creator and filmmaker, known for his "Supermarionation" puppet animated works
George Blake
British spy, a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union
Jason Robards
American actor
Curtis Mayfield
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Jerry Herman
American composer and lyricist
Sylva Koscina
Actress, model
Karolos Papoulias
Greek jurist and politician
Sue Lyon
American actress
Phil Niekro
American baseball player
Allie Reynolds
American baseball player
Johnny Bower
Canadian ice hockey player
Nigel Hawthorne
English actor
Sono Osato
American dancer and actress
Galina Volchek
Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher
Elton Wieman
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
Elsa Lanchester
English-born American actress
Lawrence Roberts
American electrical engineer and computer scientist
Sarah Weddington
Texas attorney, legislator, represented Roe in Roe vs. Wade
John Loder
British-American actor
Fabio Carpi
Italian director, screenwriter and author
Devendra Prasad Gupta
Indian botanist
William Haines
American actor, interior designer
Vincent Schiavelli
American actor
Guillermo Stábile
Argentine footballer
Savitri
Indian actress
Kushal Punjabi
Indian actor
Farid al-Atrash
Singer, composer, musician
Robert Lowery
American motion picture, television, and stage actor
Morton Sobell
American spy for the Soviet Union
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist
George Robert Carruthers
American physicist
Udaykumar
Indian actor
Tito Rojas
Puerto Rican salsa musician
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Mexican actor
Marta Eggerth
singer/actress from "The Silver Age of Operetta"
Paul Blair
American baseball player and coach
Russell Gleason
American actor
James Stephens
Irish writer
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary
George S. Irving
American actor
Gary B. Beikirch
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient