* 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

* John F. Gerry ( 1926 – 95 ), former chief United States district judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Gerald George McNeil ( April 17, 1926 – June 17, 2004 ) was a professional ice hockey goaltender who won two Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s.

Born to Peter McNeil and Rose Dyotte ( dit Gyotte ) in 1926, he led the Montreal Canadiens ( NHL ) to the Stanley Cup Finals all four seasons ( 1950 to ’ 54 ) in which he was their number one goalie.

* 1926 – Keith Davey was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer ( d. 2011 )

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

* 1926 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate

* 2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1926 – Norman Jewison, Canadian director, producer, and actor

* 1926 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1926 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician ( d. 1993 )

* 1926 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian scientist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan ( d. 2012 )

* 1926 – Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician, co-founder of the Parti Québécois ( d. 2006 )

* 1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author

* 1926 – Marjory Shedd, Canadian badminton player

* 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1887 )

* 1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor

* 1926 – Walter " Killer " Kowalski ( wrestler ) Canadian professional wrestler ( d. 2008 )

* 1926 – Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter

* 1926 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

A reorganization during 1926 led to the retention of the rolling stock group: Metropolitan Carriage wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited, British Lighting and Ignition Company, the Plywood department at Crayford Creek, Canadian Vickers, William Beardmore and Co, and Wolseley Motors

* The Canadian ( 1926 ) directed by William Beaudine.

In 1926 King advised the Governor General, Lord Byng, to dissolve Parliament and call another election, but Byng refused, the only time in Canadian history that the Governor General has exercised such a power.

In the ensuing Canadian federal election, 1926, King appealed for public support of the constitutional principle that the Governor General must accept the advice of his ministers, though this principle was at most only customary.

Examples of the use of such powers include the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 and the Canadian King-Byng Affair in 1926.