* 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

* 1926 – Eugene E. Covert, American aeronautics specialist

Eugene Victor " Gene " Debs ( November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926 ) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies ), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

* Eugene V. Debs Foundation Museum and memorial in Deb's home from 1890 till death in 1926

David Eugene Tudor ( January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996 ) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

" In the same year Joyce met Maria and Eugene Jolas in Paris, just as his new work was generating an increasingly negative reaction from readers and critics, culminating in The Dials refusal to publish the four chapters of Book III in September 1926.

Following Eugene Debs's death in 1926, there was a leadership vacuum in the Socialist Party.

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

The Reverend Robert Eugene Richards, known as Bob Richards ( born February 20, 1926, in Champaign, Illinois ), known as the " Vaulting Vicar " or the " Pole Vaulting Parson " in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events.

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

Eugene Jules " Gene " Colan ( September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011 ) was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics ' classic horror series.

* Henri Leo Eugene Lagroua ( Acting ), February 11, 1926 – August 5, 1926

Two National League catchers have won a total of three batting titles: Eugene " Bubbles " Hargrave in 1926, and Hall of Famer Ernie Lombardi in 1938 and 1942.

Barksdale AFB was established in 1932 as Barksdale Field and is named for World War I aviator and test pilot 2nd Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale ( 1896 – 1926 ).

Barksdale Field was named in honor of 2nd Lieutenant Eugene Hoy Barksdale ( 1895 – 1926 ) on February 2, 1933.

* Barker, Eugene C., Life of Stephen F. Austin ( 1926 )

Arthur Eugene " Art " Arfons ( February 3, 1926 – December 3, 2007 ) was the world land speed record holder three times in 1964 – 1965 with his Green Monster series of jet-powered cars, after a series of Green Monster piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters.

Eugene T. Gendlin ( born Eugen Gendelin ; 25 December 1926, Vienna ) is an American psychotherapist and philosopher who developed ways of thinking about and working with the implicit.

First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla, Jr. ( October 21, 1926 – presumably died November 23, 1953 ) was a United States Air Force pilot who mysteriously disappeared while pursuing an unidentified flying object over Lake Superior in 1953.