* 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 – 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

* 1926 – Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver ( d. 2002 )

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George Francis ' Pat ' Flaherty, Jr. ( January 6, 1926 – April 9, 2002 ) was an American racecar driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.

Grossmith then partnered with George Edwardes's former associate, Pat Malone, to produce a series of mostly adaptations of imported shows at the Winter Garden between 1920 and 1926: Sally ( 1921 ), The Cabaret Girl ( 1922, with book by Wodehouse and music by Jerome Kern, The Beauty Prize ( 1923, with Wodehouse and Kern ), a revival of Tonight's the Night ( 1923 ), Primrose ( 1924, with music by George Gershwin ), Tell Me More ( 1925, with words by Thompson and music by George Gershwin ) and Kid Boots ( 1926 with music by Harry Tierney ), many of them featuring Leslie Henson.

Patricia Doreen " Pat " Coombs ( 27 August 1926 – 25 May 2002 ) was an English actress.

Patricia Coombs ( born in Los Angeles, California, July 23, 1926 ).

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

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

* 1926 – Arthur Rowley, English footballer ( d. 2002 )

* 1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author ( d. 1926 )

Edwin Abbott Abbott ( 20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926 ), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland ( 1884 ).

* 1926 – Jean Alexander, English actress

* 1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor ( d. 1988 )

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

* 1926 – Jackie Pallo, English wrestler ( d. 2006 )

* 1926 – Bryan Forbes, English director, actor, and writer

* 1926 – Robert Sloman, English writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1926 – Karel Reisz, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Queenie Watts, English actress ( d. 1980 )

He wrote the book The World as Non-Objectivity, which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959.

* 1926 – David Attenborough, English broadcaster and naturalist

* 1926 – Wallace Breem, English author ( d. 1990 )

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

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

* 1926 – Terry Hall, English ventriloquist ( d. 2007 )

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

In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary ( 1917 ) he named the accent " Public School Pronunciation ", but for the second edition in 1926 he wrote " In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation ( abbreviation RP ), for want of a better term.