* 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

** Elizabeth Darwin ( 1847 – 1926 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

** Elizabeth II ( born 1926 ), Queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms

In 1926, the couple had their first child, Princess Elizabeth – " Lilibet " to the family – who would later become Queen Elizabeth II.

Elizabeth Jennings ( 20 July 1926 – 25 October 2001 ) was an English poet.

* Elizabeth II ( born 1926 ) of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms, reigned since 1952

* Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish ( b. 24 April 1926 )

Elizabeth " Bessie " Coleman ( January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926 ) was an American civil aviator.

In 1926, the John Gano chapel was built, based on a donation from Gano's great-granddaughter Elizabeth Price, who lived in Kansas City.

She was married ( div ) to John Tracy Baxter ( b. 23 Aug 1926 Macon, Georgia, USA ) http :// www. geneall. net / U / per_page. php? id = 317506, with whom according to the New York obituary, she had three daughters, Elizabeth Baxter and Etienne Baxter, both of Paris, and Leigh Warre nee Baxter, of Brooklyn ; and a grandson.

* Elizabeth Darwin ( 1847 – 1926 )

He was the son of Alexander Milburn, the uncle of the four professional footballing Milburn brothers John (' Jack ') Milburn b. 1908 ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn b. 1910 ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), James (' Jimmy ') Milburn b. 1919 ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), and Stanley (' Stan ') Milburn b. 1926 ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), who were brothers of Jack and Bobby Charlton's mother Elizabeth ' Cissie ' Milburn b. 1912..

He married Florence Elizabeth Kreager on June 17, 1926 and had two daughters ( Suzanne Kay and Elizabeth Ina ).

Lord Ashbourne married Frances Maria Adelaide Colles ( 1849 – 1926 ), daughter of barrister Henry Jonathan Cope Colles and his wife Elizabeth Mary, daughter of John Mayne of Dublin, in 1868.

Elizabeth Josephine Brawley Hughes ( December 22, 1839 – March 1926 ) was an advocate of women's rights in the United States West region.

** Sonia Helen Gunston JP ( b. 1926 ), appointed Temporary Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, and who married Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron ( d. 1964 ) and had issue including Nicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron ( b. 1956 ).

Crutchley was on HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1924 – 1926, and then on the light cruiser HMS Ceres in 1926-1928.

The core elements of his collection were accumulated between 1926 and 1930, though his passion dwindled somewhat following the death of his wife Elizabeth ( known as Lil ) in 1931.

* Ward Memorial Building, Northwestern University, Chicago campus, 1926 ( funded by Elizabeth Ward in honor of her late husband, mail order and department store magnate Aaron Montgomery Ward.

The Argus building, constructed in 1926 on the corner of La Trobe and Elizabeth streets, is classified by the National Trust and is on the Victorian Heritage Register of Heritage Victoria.

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She was born Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins on April 16, 1926 in Chandler, Arizona to " evangelical parents.