* 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

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – John Silber, American academic ( d. 2012 )

* 1926 – John Derek, American actor ( d. 1998 )

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.

He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. ( 1845 – 1926 ) and Victoria Josephine Moor ( 1846 – 1885 ).

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

* John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough ( b. 1926 ), elder son of the 10th Duke

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

* 1926 – John Gunther Dean, American diplomat

* 1926 – John Schlesinger, English film director ( d. 2003 )

* 1926: John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of a working television system.

* 1843 – John H. Moffitt, American politician ( d. 1926 )

* Sir John McLeavy Brown ( 1835 – 1926 ), British lawyer and diplomat

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

John Arthur Brabham was born on 2 April 1926 in Hurstville, then a commuter town outside Sydney, Australia.

* 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – John Fowles, English author ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – John Fowles, English writer ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor ( b. 1855 )

* 1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet ) ( d. 1967 )

Using a Nipkow disk, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926.

In 1926, Vitaphone began making films with music and effects tracks, most notably, in the feature Don Juan starring John Barrymore.