To celebrate the new year, here are my connections to notables born in 1926 or 1826
Per wikitree.com I am:

20 degrees from Elizabeth II Windsor
23 degrees from David Attenborough
15 degrees from Oden Bowie
28 degrees from John Coltrane
19 degrees from Stephen Foster
16 degrees from Julia Grant
23 degrees from Wilhelm Liebknecht
16 degrees from George McClellan
18 degrees from Marilyn Monroe
20 degrees from David Ogilvy Seventh Earl of Airlie
22 degrees from Joan Sutherland
21 degrees from Jon Vickers

More info on them:

Queen Elizabeth II of England, born in 1926.

Sir David Attenborough, 1926, English broadcaster and natural historian.

Oden Bowie, 1826, Governor of Maryland.

John Coltrane, 1926, jazz saxophonist and composer.

Stephen Foster, 1826, "Father of American Music."

First Lady Julia Grant, 1826, wife of US President Ulysses S. Grant.

Wilhelm Liebknecht, 1826, one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic
Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP).

Maj. George Brinton McClellan, 1826, US Civil War leader, politician, and railroad man.

Marilyn Monroe, 1926, actress, singer, and model.

David Ogilvy, 1826, 7th Earl of Airlie, KT, Scottish peer and soldier.

Dame Joan Sutherland, 1926, world famous opera singer known as "La Stupenda."

Jon Vickers, 1926, world renowned Canadian heldentenor.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, Indian chiefs, pro
hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets,
popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters. It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.

If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me some basic information by going to:

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I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history,
and I would love to see how WE are related.

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