* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician

* 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

* 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, English author ( d. 2010 )

* 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor

* 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player ( d. 2007 )

* 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian writer

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba

In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

* 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer

* 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* 1926 – Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim ( d. 1945 )

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

In 1926, he played the role of the criminal Ficsur in the original London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom ( The play was musicalized in 1945 by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Carousel, where Ficsur became Jigger Craigin, but Laughton never appeared in the musical version ).

From 1926 to 1945, he was king of Annam under French ‘ protection ’.

A. G. „ Weser " was leading company in Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinenbau AG, a cooperation of eight German shipbuilding companies between 1926 and 1945.

One of Pendergast's political proteges was a young World War I veteran from Independence: Harry S. Truman, who had been his nephew's commanding officer in the war, was elected Presiding Judge ( equivalent to a County Executive ) of Jackson County with Pendergast support in 1926, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Missouri, Vice President, and in 1945, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-third President of the United States.

Additionally, a 1926 Childs fire truck which was purchased from the village of Ballston Spa in 1945 is maintained as a unique parade piece representing their history.

* Champions: 1926 – 27, 1927 – 28, 1928 – 29, 1931 – 32, 1932 – 34, 1938 – 39 *, 1944 – 45, 1945 – 46, 1949 – 50, 1950 – 51, 1952 – 53, 1972 – 74, 1974 – 76 (* shared )

:: Champions ( 1 ): 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1958

Two British Pennies from 1945 ( George VI ) and 1926 ( George V ).

Robert Hutchings Goddard ( October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945 ) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

* Gabriel Pomerand ( 1926 – 1972 ), member from 1945.

In these ways, the pre-1945 and post-war periods regard completely different states: the pre-1945 Shōwa period ( 1926 – 1945 ) concerns the Empire of Japan, while post-1945 Shōwa period ( 1945 – 1989 ) was a part of the State of Japan.

: A widow living with her child's family in Nerima, Sayo once worked as a first-grade teacher at Jinjō Elementary School in Nagano since 1926, but it was closed down in 1945 before she could hand out her last class ' graduation diplomas.

Born on 25 December 1926, Dharamvir Bharati graduated in BA ( first class ) in 1945 and in 1947 completed his MA in Hindi literature ( first class ) and finally did his PhD from Allahabad University.

Little Rock Central holds numerous team and individual state records including 50 track & field state championships with an 18-year consecutive run of titles from 1926 through 1945 ; 17 boys ' basketball state titles won between 1912-1999, including four consecutive banners ( 1944-47 ) and three overall state titles ( 1972, 1973, 1975 ); 22 boys ' cross country state championships from 1955 through 1982 ; 32 football state championship banners from 1907 through 2004 including the state's all-time win record.

The city of Wurzen left the district 1926 – 1945 as a district-free city.

* Read ' Em and Weep: The Songs you Forgot to Remember, by Sigmund Spaeth, Arco Publishing: 1926, 1945.

His grandfather, Ray Hayworth, was a Major League Baseball catcher from 1926 to 1945.

** The Italian Communist Left 1926 – 1945 ( ISBN 1897980132 )

Gevorg Armenian ( 1920-), Anahit Tsitsikian ( 1926 – 1999 ), Arno Babadjanyan ( 1921 – 1983 ), Barseg Kanatchian ( 1885 – 1967 ), Edward Mirzoyan ( 1921 -), Boris Parsadanian ( 1925 – 1997 ), Ashot Zohrabyan ( 1945 -), and Aram Satian ( 1947 –) represent other Soviet era Armenian composers.

Leading members of the group include John Ashbery ( born in poetry1927 ), Frank O ' Hara ( 1926 – 1966 ), Kenneth Koch ( 1925 – 2002 ), James Schuyler ( 1923 – 1991 ), Barbara Guest ( 1920 – 2006 ), Ted Berrigan ( 1934 – 1983 ), Anne Waldman ( born in 1945 ) and Bernadette Mayer ( born in 1945 ).