* 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

André de Lorde was the theater's principal playwright from 1901 to 1926.

André, Baron Delvaux ( 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002 ) was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema.

After contributing to revues such as Stop Press he was commissioned to write the entire score and lyrics for André Charlot's 1926 revue.

* In 1926, Eugene Corniché passes away, his position as director of Deauville ’ s grand establishments is filled by Francois André.

Born in Paris, Georges Philippe de Rothschild was the younger son of Baron Henri James de Rothschild ( 1872 – 1947 ) ( who was a noted playwright under the name André Pascal ) and Mathilde Sophie Henriette von Weissweiller ( 1872 – 1926 ).

André had also been involved in the manufacture of the Marlborough car between 1909 and 1926.

André and Magda were married in 1926.

André Testut ( 13 April 1926 – 24 September 2005, Lyon ) was a racing driver from Monaco.

There, he met and married Mary Schaefer ( 1926 – 2006 ) in 1949 and had four children, Michel ( 1950-), André ( 1951-), Pierre ( 1956 – 2005 ) and Marie ( 1959-), and now, 5 grandchildren.

Dupont de Nemours in 1926 and Belgian Gevaert in 1925.

From 1 March 1926 to 30 June 1960, Ruanda-Urundi was in administrative union with the neighbouring colony of Belgian Congo.

* 1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver ( d. 2010 )

* Belgian — Strens, Jules: " Mon ami Pierrot " ( 1926 ; piano ).

* Belgian — Dell ' Acqua, Eva: Pierrot the Liar ( 1918 ); Renieu, Lionel: The Chimera, or Pierrot the Alchemist ( 1926 ; libretto by Albert Nouveau and Fortuné Paillot ).

* Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ), featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in one of Christie's best-known works

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

This was finished in 1926 and Sabena immediately began flights within the Belgian colony, the main route being Boma-Léopoldville-Élisabethville, a 2, 288 km ( 1, 422 mi ) route over dense jungle.

As a politician he became Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1918 to 1920 ( and again from 1927 to 1935 ), minister of justice from 1926 to 1927, and member of the council of ministers from 1935 to 1936.

Among the friends he made in his travels were King Albert I of Belgium, who made him a Commander of the Crown and Honorary Belgian Consul for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and Queen Marie of Romania, whose 1926 visit to the United States was largely at his behest, and who granted him the Order of the Crown in the Degree of the Grand Cross ; and Marshall Joseph Joffre, whom Hill took on a trip around the world in 1922.

* Marc Aryan-( 1926 – 1985 ), Fremch / Belgian singer, composer, producer

* SABCA S-2, a 1926 Belgian aircraft

These cars were built by Belgian company La Brugeoise starting in 1913 and were refurbished in 1926 when their wooden structure was modified for underground-only use.

* Rita Gorr ( b. 1926 ), Belgian operatic mezzo-soprano

* Louis Michotte ( 1868 – 1926 ): Belgian – cook

* Désiré-Joseph Mercier ( 1851 – 1926 ) Belgian cardinal

Boma was the capital city of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo ( the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo ) from 1 May 1886 to 1926, when the capital was moved to Léopoldville ( since renamed Kinshasa ).

Théo ( Théophile ) van Rysselberghe ( 23 November 1862 — 14 December 1926 ) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century.

It is named after David Weyhe Smith ( 1926 – 1981 ), an American Pediatrician, Luc Lemli ( 1935 –), a Belgian Physician and John Marius Opitz ( 1935 –), a German-American Physician.

Antwerp is the oldest football club to register to the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1895 and they consequently received the matriculate number one, when matriculation numbers were introduced in 1926.

They were subsequently assigned the matricule number 1 when the Royal Belgian Football Association gave a matricule number to each registered club in November 1926, by order of registration.