* 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

* 2012 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – Peter Graves, American actor ( d. 2010 )

* May 5 – Peter van Pels, German-Jewish love interest of diarist Anne Frank ( b. 1926 )

In 1926, building on Hickson's research, Peter Alexander suggested the bad quarto theory.

* Peter Durack ( 1926 – 2008 ) — Australian politician and Attorney-General of Australia

According to " A History of Washington County, Pennsylvania " by Earle R. Forrest ( 1926 ), the original plot of Burgettstown was surveyed February 28, 1795, by Peter Kidd, surveyor for George Burgett.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 1990 ), Dannie Abse ( born 1923 ), Raymond Garlick ( born 1926 ), Peter Finch ( born 1947 ), and perhaps also Paul Groves ( born 1947 ) have a significant place.

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

* The book is moved from 1926 to 1928, which results in an anachronism-Lord Peter meets briefly with the US Ambassador in Buckingham Palace and talks with the King, but at that point the King was actually desperately ill and recuperating from a bout of septicaemia.

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer ( born 15 May 1926 ) is an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.

Mark Phillips is the son of the late Major Peter William Garside Phillips ( 1920 – 1998 ), and Anne Patricia Phillips ( née Tiarks ) ( 1926 – 1988 ).

Major advances first appeared in the late 1920s when cooling via adiabatic demagnetization was independently proposed by two scientists, Peter Debye in 1926 and William Giauque in 1927.

* Dagbøker og breve ( with Peter Jonas Collett ) 1926 – 34

* Peter Taylor ( botanist ) ( 1926 – 2011 ), British botanist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery ( 27 February 1926 – 9 December 2004 ) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Peter Kingsley Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, PC ( 20 November 1926 – 14 June 2012 ) was a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.

* Peter Martin Joseph Charles John ffrench, 7th Baron ffrench ( 2 May 1926 – 1986 ).

Peter Graves ( 1926 – 2010 ) was an American actor.

Peter Aurness ( March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010 ), known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

* Peter Rees ( born 1926 ), British Conservative party politician

In 1926 the Bassett Lowkes moved to New Ways, a pioneering modernist house designed by Peter Behrens close to Abington Park.

In 1926, Dysart succeeded Peter J. Veniot as leader of the Liberal party.