* 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

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry.

* Jack Breaux ( 1926 – 1980 ), first Republican mayor in Louisiana since Reconstruction

His son, Jack, would establish LeConte Lodge atop Mount Le Conte in 1926.

* Jack English Hightower ( born 1926 )-politician, former 46th Judicial District Attorney

founded in 1926 by Paul E. Richter, Jack Frye and Walter Hamilton.

His two older brothers were actor Jack Garner ( 1926 – 2011 ) and Charles Bumgarner, a school administrator who died in 1984.

" They included Orson Bean ( b. 1928 ), Sean Connery ( b. 1930 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Paul Goodman 1911 – 1972 ), Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Isaac Rosenfeld ( 1918 – 1956 ), J. D. Salinger ( 1919 – 2010 ), William Steig ( 1907 – 2003 ), and Robert Anton Wilson ( 1932 – 2007 ).

* Jack in the Box ( 1926 )

Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller was his third silent film The Lodger ( 1926 ), a suspenseful Jack the Ripper story.

The club was founded in 1926 as Aldershot Town FC when Jack White, a sports journalist persuaded council officials that the garrison town needed a professional football club.

James Joseph " Gene " Tunney ( May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927.

From 1924 to 1933, he made the following recordings with D ' Oyly Carte: 1924 Ruddigore ( Robin Oakapple ); 1927 Gondoliers ( Giuseppe ); 1926 Mikado ( Pish-Tush ); 1927 Trial ( Usher ); 1929 Pirates ( Major-General ) 1928 Yeomen ( Jack Point ); 1929 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ); 1930 Patience ( Bunthorne ); 1930 H. M. S.

Masters of the Company who have been composers or otherwise connected with music include: Frederick Bridge, 1892 ; Herbert Sullivan, 1926 ; Hugh Allen, 1937 ; Herbert Howells, 1959 ; Jack Westrup, 1971 ; and Lennox Berkeley, 1976.

* Jack Brabham ( born 1926 ), Australian motor racing world champion

In contrast, the Beat poets, who included such figures as Jack Kerouac ( 1922 – 1969 ), Allen Ginsberg ( 1926 – 1997 ), Gregory Corso ( 1930 – 2001 ), Joanne Kyger ( born 1934 ), Gary Snyder ( born 1930 ), Diane Di Prima ( born 1934 ), Amiri Baraka ( born 1934 ) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( born 1919 ), were distinctly raw. Reflecting, sometimes in an extreme form, the more open, relaxed and searching society of the 1950s and 1960s, the Beats pushed the boundaries of the American idiom in the direction of demotic speech perhaps further than any other group.

The complete list: Doc Ayers ( played through 1921 ); Ray Caldwell ( 1921 ); Stan Coveleski ( 1928 ); Bill Doak ( 1929 ); Phil Douglas ( 1922 ); Red Faber ( 1933 ); Dana Fillingim ( 1925 ); Ray Fisher ( 1920 ); Marv Goodwin ( 1925 ); Dutch Leonard ( 1925 ); Clarence Mitchell ( 1932 ); Jack Quinn ( 1933 ); Allen Russell ( 1925 ); Dick Rudolph ( 1927 ); Urban Shocker ( 1928 ); and Allen Sothoron ( 1926 ).

* Jack Ryan ( designer ) ( 1926 – 1991 ), designer and Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband

In February 1926, he signed the pacy winger Joe Hulme, followed that summer by forward Jack Lambert and full-back Tom Parker, who would later succeed Buchan as captain.

In 1926, Farley threatened to resign his post as Athletic Commissioner if the boxing champion Jack Dempsey did not fight the mandatory challenger, African-American fighter Harry Wills who went by the name " the Black Panther ".

In 1926, Muriel met Jack Duckworth, a McGill student who was also active in the SCM.

Haines scored his first big personal success with Brown of Harvard ( 1926 ) opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian.

In 1925, 1926 and 1929, Premier Jack Lang made attempts at abolishing the Legislative Council, following the example of the Queensland Legislative Council in 1922, but all were unsuccessful.

Seyrig married ( and was later divorced from ) American painter Jack Youngerman ( b. 1926 ), who had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.