Denis Gifford

Denis Gifford was a British writer, broadcaster, journalist, comic artist and historian of film, comics, television and radio. In his lengthy career, he wrote and drew for British comics; wrote more than fifty books on the creators, performers, characters and history of popular media; devised, compiled and contributed to popular programmes for radio and television; and directed several short films. Gifford was also a major comics collector, owning what was perhaps the largest collection of British comics in the world.

26 December 1927

Born on the same birth date (26 December 1927): Alan King • Denis Quilley • Stu Miller

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Adrienn Hegedűs • Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg • Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan • Arthur Percival • Chris Daughtry • Earle Brown • Evan Bayh • Jay Farrar • Kenneth Darby • Konstantinos Georgakopoulos • Mary Somerville • Matt Gordy • Raja Pervaiz Ashraf • Richard Artschwager • Robert Bolling • Tomáš Kundrátek • Trevor Taylor (racing driver)

Born in the same month (December 1927): Alan King • Andy Williams • Antony Gardner • Audrey Wagner • Bob Farrell (motivational speaker) • Jim Fuchs • Jim Simpson (sportscaster) • John Buscema • Leo Kubiak • Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark • Niklas Luhmann • Nityanand Swami (politician) • Peter Dickinson • Ram Narayan • Robert Noyce • W. D. Amaradeva