* 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 – 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 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician ( d. 2008 )

* July 14 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator ( d. 1926 )

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE ( 14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926 ) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

" Obituary: Gertrude Lowthian Bell ", The Geographical Journal 68. 4 ( 1926 ): 363-368.

In 1926 Gertrude Ederle, born in New York, became the first woman to swim across the English channel, arriving in almost two hours less time than any of the men who had swum across before her.

In 1926, he married Gertrude Jane Carew.

In 1926, the first woman to swim the English Channel, 19 year-old Gertrude Ederle, made landfall at Kingsdown, after a 35-mile crossing ( the direct distance is 21 miles ) in record time.

Kriyānanda ( then Donald Walters ) was born in Teleajen, Romania, on May 19, 1926, to American parents, Ray P. and Gertrude G. Walters.

It opened on Broadway at in 1926, starring Gertrude Lawrence and Victor Moore, and ran for 256 performances.

El Capitan, dubbed " Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama ," opened as a legitimate theatre on May 3, 1926 with Charlot's Revue starring Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan.

His first wife was stage actress Gertrude Warren ( 1926 – 1945 ; divorced ).

For her second attempt at the Channel, Ederle had an entourage aboard the tug ( the Alsace ) on August 6, 1926, which included her father and one of her sisters, Meg, as well as Julia Harpman, wife of Westbrook Pegler and a writer for the New York Daily News, the paper that sponsored Ederle's swim.

* 1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

* 1926 Cotton becomes king, as 48, 000 bales are ginned in the county.

* 1926: Emperor Taishō dies ; Hirohito becomes emperor ( December 25 ).

* 1926: Zaghloul becomes president of the parliament, and from this position he is able to control the actions of extreme nationalists.

* 1926 – Ahmedabad Municipality becomes Barrough Municipality.

In 1926 he published a novel, Adams ( translated into English as Star Turn ), about a Hollywood star for whom the distinction between the real and unreal becomes blurred.

In 1926, this branch becomes the Department of Northern Development.