* 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

* 2012 – Andy Griffith, American actor, director, producer and writer ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – Original Sam ' n ' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos ' n ' Andy in 1928.

** Andy Griffith, American actor ( b. 1926 )

Andy Samuel Griffith ( June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012 ) was an American actor, television producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer.

Primary directed such films as Among Those Present ( 1919 ), Andy Takes a Flyer ( 1925 ), and Between Meals ( 1926 ).

During 1926 he was acting IRA chief of staff in the absence of Andy Cooney, and in 1927, he was confirmed in that position.

Alan Arnold Griffith had published a paper on turbine design in 1926.

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A. Griffith resulting in the publishing in 1926 of An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design.

A. Griffith, who published a paper in July 1926 on compressors and turbines, also deserves credit.

** John Griffith Vaughan ( 1926 – 2005 ), botanist

It was built in 1926 by M. A. Griffith and W. T. Hadlow for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in the Spanish Mission style, and used by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad after the 1967 merger with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.

* 1926: Alan Arnold Griffith publishes his groundbreaking paper Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, changing the low confidence in jet engines.

A. Griffith published a seminal paper in 1926, noting that the reason for the poor performance was that existing compressors used flat blades and were essentially " flying stalled ".

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

* 1926 – Stan Freberg, American voice actor

* 1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor

* 1926 – Alice Ghostley, American actress ( d. 2007 )

* 1926 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist

* 1926 – Julius Katchen, American pianist ( d. 1969 )

* 1926 – John Silber, American academic ( d. 2012 )

* 1926 – John Derek, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1926 – Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2005 )

* 1926 – Wallace Markfield, American author ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Arthur Rock, American investor

* Ajax ( American automobile ), Nash Motors, 1925 – 1926, U. S.

* Ajax Records ( Quebec ) ( 1921 – 1926 ), a North American record company

* 1926 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist ( d. 2006 )

* 1926 – Betty Lynn, American actress

* 1926 – Daryl Gates, American police chief ( d. 2010 )

* 1926 – Liz Renay, American actress ( d. 2007 )

* 1926 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer ( d. 2000 )