* 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

* Carolyn Gold Heilbrun ( 1926 – 2003 ), author who wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun ( January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003 ) was an American academic and prolific feminist author of both important academic studies and popular mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross.

Carolyn Leigh ( August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983 ) was an American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs.

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 ).

In 1926, " Navy Blue and Gold ", composed by organist and choirmaster J. W. Crosley, was first sung in public.

Its territory included all of the western United States, though as population declined in the area due to the California Gold Rush and increased in nearby Portland the archdiocese was renamed as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon and the headquarters moved there in 1926.

* L ' Or ( 1925, Grasset ) / Novel / English ( Sutter's Gold, 1926, Harper & Bros .) / Spanish ( 1931 )

The method won awards, including the Gold Medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, and the Gold Medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1926.

They include Welterweight Boxing Champion Storer College ( 1925 – 27 ); High Jump champion, Howard University Inter-Scholastic Games ( 1926 ); Gold Medalist in Cross Country, Storer College ( 1927 ); Back-stroke Swimming Champion and No. 3 swimmer in Freestyle Relay team, Howard University ( 1928 ); Captain, Lincoln University Soccer Team ( 1930 ); Winner Two Miles Run, Central Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Hampton Institute Virginia ( 1931 ); Bronze Medalist, Richmond Cross Country Marathon ( 1931 ); Gold Medalist in the 1, 000 yard run, One Mile Run and Three Mile Run, Catedonian Games in Brooklyn, NY ( 1932 ); Silver Trophy winner in the Half Mile race, and Silver Cup winner in the One Mile Race, Democratic Field Day Championships, New Haven, Connecticut ( 1933 ); Runner-up ( with G. K. Dorgu ) at the Lagos Tennis Men ’ s Double Championships ( Division B 1938 ); anchor man for the ZAC team which won the 50 yards Freestyle Relay at the Lagos Swimming Championships ( 1939 ).

* Money / Gold ( Kane / Kin ) ( 1926 )

Also in 1926 Cobham was awarded the Gold Medal by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

The first was the Chocolate Apple ( 1926 ), then the Chocolate Orange ( 1931 ), and finally Terry's All Gold ( 1936 ).

Gold was discovered in the ranges three miles north of the current town area in 1926 by J Smith Roberts In 1927 Charles Windley, a telegraph operator, found gold on what would become Tennant Creek's first mine, The Great Northern.

* Desert Gold ( 1926 )

He received the Academy's Gold Medal in 1926 and up through the 1920s he created a number of monumental designs in a classist style which were never realized.

* Pitt, Walter ( 1926 ) ' The Mfantera ', Gold Coast Review 2 / 1: 71 – 77.

The AIME presented Callow the James Douglas Gold Medal in 1926 for his contributions to the field of flotation.

In 1926 the film Garras de oro ( Claws of Gold ) was released, it has the distinction of being based on a political issue, the separation of Panama from Colombia, and for criticizing the role of the United Statesin the conflict, both bold firsts in Colombian Cinema.

* Desert Gold ( 1926 )

He incorporated his own company in 1926 under the name “ Eldorado Gold Mines, Limited .”