* 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 – 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

* 2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician ( b. 1926 )

Kristen Nygaard ( August 27, 1926 – August 10, 2002 ) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician.

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute annexed the island for Norway in 1922 and the whole island in 1926 when Hallvard Devold was head of the weather observations base on the island.

According to some, the first consistent, verified, and scientifically convincing attainment of the Pole was on 12 May 1926, by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his US sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge.

* 1865 – Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter ( d. 2009 )

In 1926, a hoaxer named Frank Power claimed in the Sunday Referee newspaper that Kitchener's body had been found by a Norwegian fisherman.

Odds BK / Odd Grenland won the Norwegian Football Cup in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931 and 2000, more than any other team in Norway.

In 1926 and 1927, Norwegian Eyvind Tofte circumnavigated and surveyed the island from Odd I.

Founded in 1926, they currently play in Norwegian football's second highest division, Adeccoligaen.

Majorstuen Church ( Majorstuen kirke ) was consecrated on 26 March 1926 as Priest's Church ( Prestenes kirke ) when it was built for the funds collected among Norwegian clergymen.

Hovedbanen was formally a private railway until 1926, but the Norwegian Government had great influence on the railway from the very beginning.

The Hastings County, a 116 metre Norwegian cargo ship ran ashore on north west of Auskerry in 1926 during thick fog.

* Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland ( 1866 – 1926 ) Norwegian architect

The first aerosol spray can patent was granted in Oslo in 1926 to Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer, and a United States patent was granted for the invention in 1931.

Two unsuccessful attempts were made in 1920 and 1926 – 27 to revive catching in Spitsbergen waters — since that time only Northern Bottlenose and Minke Whales have been hunted there by converted Norwegian fishing boats.

The Norwegian annual catch rose from 279 tons in 1926 to 3, 884 tons in 1933, and peaked at around 6, 000 tons in 1947, with the resumption of fishing after World War II.

In 1926 he was, as the only Norwegian Prime Minister ever, impeached.

Hans Ernst Kinck () ( 11 October 1865 – 13 October 1926 ) was a Norwegian author and philologist who wrote novels, short stories, dramas, and essays.

* Nils Vogt ( civil servant ) ( 1926 – 2000 ), Norwegian civil servant

The venue hosted the Norwegian Athletics Championships 18 times, in 1926 – 29, 1931 – 36, 1938 – 39, 1947, 1949, 1951 – 52, 1955 and 2006.

The church reconstruction was led by Norwegian architect Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland ( 1866 – 1926 ), while the color restoration was performed by Norwegian painter Domenico Juul Erdmann ( 1879 – 1940 ), who was assisted by Norwegian painter Alfred Obert Hagn ( 1882 – 1958 ), and Danish-Norwegian artist Adolph Ulrik Hendriksen ( 1891 – 1960 ).