* 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

* Leopoldo Usseglio, I Marchesi di Monferrato in Italia ed in Oriente durante i secoli XII e XIII ( Casale Monferrato, 1926 )

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo and Grandee of Spain (; 14 April 1926 – 3 May 2008 ) was a Spanish political figure and prime minister during the period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime.

It was founded on March 15, 1926 by Leopoldo Gori and Carlo Zucchi, the two " fathers " of the first goldsmith company in the city of Arezzo, which had the original idea to apply industrial methodologies to the goldsmith ’ s art, keeping at minimum the cost of work on metal.

In Argentina, the disease is known as mal de Chagas-Mazza, in honor of Salvador Mazza, the Argentine physician who in 1926 began investigating the disease and over the years became the principal researcher of this disease in the country.

The parallel Federación Argentina de Football ( Argentine Football Federation ), founded in 1912, joined the Asociación Argentina de Football, as well as did the 1919 founded Asociacion Amateurs de Football ( Amateur Football Association ) in 1926.

In 1926 it was again renamed to Asociación Amateur Argentina de Football ( Argentine Amateur Football Association ), but with the professionalization of the sport in 1931 it was named Asociación de Football Amateur y Profesionales ( Amateur and Professional Football Association ).

* Flame of the Argentine ( 1926 )

* Flame of the Argentine ( 1926 Robertson-Cole / FBO ) Lost

Roberto Goyeneche ( Saavedra, Buenos Aires, January 29, 1926 – Buenos Aires, August 27, 1994 ) was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires ' bohemian life, and became a living legend in the local music scene.

Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya ( 27 September 1926 – 9 January 2008 ) was a former Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine Navy.

* Pascual Pérez ( boxer ) ( 1926 – 1977 ), Argentine flyweight boxer

The " Copa Campeonato " was the trophy given to Argentine Primera División | Primera División champions from 1894 to 1926.

Alfredo Oscar Saint-Jean ( 11 November 1926 – 2 September 1987 ) was an Argentine Army major general and politician, who served as President of Argentina in 1982.

* César Pelli ( born 1926 ), Argentine architect

César Pelli ( born October 12, 1926 ) is an Argentine American architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks.

* Tito Alonso ( 1926 – 1979 ), Argentine film actor