* 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

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* 1926 – Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger

* 1926 – Jimmy Savile, English entertainer ( d. 2011 )

James John Walker, often known as Jimmy Walker and colloquially as Beau James ( June 19, 1881November 18, 1946 ), was the mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932.

When Hornsby refused to give way, the Cardinals traded him to the New York Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring on December 20, 1926.

* Jimmy Heath ( born 1926 ), jazz saxophonist

The group paired Pauling with vocalists Jimmy Moore, Obadiah Carter, and Otto Jeffries, with Johnny Tanner ( 28 November 1926, North Carolina-8 November 2005 ) singing lead.

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* Jimmy Gray ( cricketer ) ( born 1926 ), played for Hampshire from 1948 to 1966

Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers ' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.

Jimmy Gardiner was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1914, and served as Minister of Highways ( 1922 – 26 ) in the government of Premier Charles A. Dunning from 1922 until succeeding Dunning as Premier in 1926.

Henri René Guieu ( March 19, 1926 – January 2, 2000 ) was a French science fiction writer who published primarily with the pseudonym Jimmy Guieu.

After the 1926 season, Frisch was traded-with pitcher Jimmy Ring-to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for star Rogers Hornsby.

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..

Werner Michael Blumenthal ( born January 3, 1926 ) served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977-1979.

Charles William Duncan, Jr. ( born September 9, 1926 ) is an American entrepreneur, administrator, and statesman best known for serving as U. S. Secretary of Energy on the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.

On December 20, 1926, they traded Frisch and pitcher Jimmy Ring to the St. Louis Cardinals for Rogers Hornsby.

* Jimmy Brown ( musician ) ( 1926 – 2006 ), American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer

Many of the Pats players of that golden era are still recalled fondly today – Ginger O ' Rourke, Harry Boland (' The Legend ', 1926 – 2000 ), Jimmy Timber Cummins ( a cousin of one of the founders – Bart Cummins ) Jimmy Growler Cummins ( a brother of Bart Cummins ) Irish international Shay Gibbons, Ronnie Whelan Snr.

His grandfather Jimmy Boyle ( baseball ) played catcher for the New York Giants in 1926 and his great-uncle, Buzz Boyle, was an outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

James " Jimmy " Weinstein ( July 17, 1926, New York City – June 16, 2005, Chicago ) was an American historian and journalist best known as the founder and publisher of In These Times.

* Jimmy Walker ( 1881 – 1946 ), mayor of New York City, 1926 – 1932

Gloria Carter Spann ( October 22, 1926 – March 5, 1990 ) was a sister of former United States President Jimmy Carter.