Older or Younger than David Attenborough?

8th May 2026 marked the centenary of Sir David Attenborough's birth. You will be given a series of famous names - can you identify which were born before Sir David, and which were born after?
OLDER/YOUNGER refers merely to their date of birth. Even if the individual is dead, if they were born after David Attenborough's birthday (8th May 1926), they will qualify as younger.
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Elizabeth II
Born 21 April 1926
Agatha Christie
Born 15 September 1890
Clint Eastwood
Born 31 May 1930
Stephen Hawking
Born 8 January 1942
Henry Kissinger
Born 27 May 1923
Margaret Thatcher
Born 13 October 1925
Marilyn Monroe
Born 1 June 1926
Neil Armstrong
Born 5 August 1930
Chuck Berry
Born 18 October 1926
Ronald Reagan
Born 6 February 1911
Sophia Loren
Born 20 September 1931
Lee Kuan Yew
Born 16 September 1923
Dick Cheney
Born 30 January 1941
Christopher Plummer
Born 13 December 1929
Kim Jong Il
Born 16 February 1941
Mel Brooks
Born 28 June 1926
Indira Gandhi
Born 19 November 1917
Richard Nixon
Born 9 January 1913
Yuri Gagarin
Born 9 March 1934
Rosalind Franklin
Born 25 July 1920
Rosa Parks
Born 4 February 1913
James Dean
Born 8 February 1931
Christopher Lee
Born 27 May 1922
Robert Mugabe
Born 21 February 1924
George Burns
Born 20 January 1896
Pope Benedict XVI
Born 16 April 1927
Judy Garland
Born 10 June 1922
Manuel Noriega
Born 11 February 1934
Hugh Hefner
Born 9 April 1926
Dick van Dyke
Born 13 December 1925
Mikhail Gorbachev
Born 2 March 1931
Pierre Trudeau
Born 18 October 1919
Stanley Kubrick
Born 26 July 1928
Golda Meir
Born 3 May 1898
William Shatner
Born 22 March 1931
Fidel Castro
Born 13 August 1926
Anne Frank
Born 12 June 1929
Martin Luther King
Born 15 January 1929
George H.W. Bush
Born 12 June 1924
Richard Attenborough
Born 29 August 1923
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