Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya was a Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist. She was one of the founders and the first editor of A Chronicle of Current Events (1968–1982). On 25 August 1968, with seven others, she took part in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 a Soviet court sentenced Gorbanevskaya to incarceration in a psychiatric hospital. She was released from the Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital in 1972, and emigrated from the USSR in 1975, settling in France. In 2005, she became a citizen of Poland.

26 May 1936

Born on the same birth day (26 May): Alistair MacDuff • Andrew Clennel Palmer • Bobcat Goldthwait • Dani Stevens • Doug Hutchison • Elisabeth Harnois • J. F. Ade Ajayi • Jimmy Vesey • John Baird (Canadian politician) • János Kádár • Karin Ekelund • Masaharu Morimoto • Michael Portillo • Muriel McQueen Fergusson • Nicolaus Zinzendorf • Paul Collingwood • Peggy Lee • Philippe de Champaigne • Prince Koreyasu • Ronnie Black • Steve Pate

Born in the same month (May 1936): Anthony Zerbe • Betty Shabazz • Bobby Darin • Claude Forget • Dick Howser • Engelbert Humperdinck (singer) • Frank Stella • George H. Heilmeier • Guillermo Endara • Günter Blobel • Karl Lehmann • Marcel Masse • Mart Laga • Paul Zindel • Türker İnanoğlu