* 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

Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001 ) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian parents.

* August 1 – Poul Anderson, American author ( b. 1926 )

Danish design is also a well-known brand, often associated with world-famous designers and architects such as Børge Mogensen ( 1914 – 1972 ), Finn Juhl ( 1912 – 1989 ), Hans Wegner ( 1914 – 2007 ), Arne Jacobsen ( 1902 – 1971 ), Poul Kjærholm ( 1929 – 1980 ), Poul Henningsen ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Verner Panton ( 1926 – 1998 ).

* 1998 Poul Anderson ( 1926 – 2001 )

* Poul Anderson ( 1926 – 2001 ), American science fiction author

* 1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

* Richard Anderson ( born 1926 ), best known for his role as Oscar Goldman, in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman TV series and subsequent TV movies.

Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson ( born in 1926 ) is a New Zealander fiction writer who has become internationally recognized, despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties.

In 1926, he had a one-man show at the Anderson Galleries and another at Intimate Gallery the New York gallery run by his friend Alfred Stieglitz.

Kenneth Harry Olsen ( February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011 ) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson.

In 1926 Anderson announced the discovery of two human molars amongst this material and the following year Zdansky published his finding cautiously identifying the teeth as? Homo sp.

* Alexander Anderson ( English socialist ) ( 1878 – 1926 ), British socialist who helped found the Socialist Party of Great Britain

* Christian Anderson ( 1926 – 1930 )

Rona Anderson ( born 3 August 1926 ) is a Scottish stage, film, and television actress.

Rona Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 August 1926, to parents James Anderson and Evelyn Anderson ( née Thomson ).

He exchanged correspondance with Sherwood Anderson in May-July 1926, stating that his motivation for writing his first long work was more motivated by his refusal to " pull punches " and encourage sub-par work out of Anderson-as his peer-and not to simply get out of a contract with Boni & Liveright.

* Chris Anderson ( pianist ) ( 1926 – 2008 ), American jazz pianist

Carl Daniel Erskine ( born December 13, 1926 in Anderson, Indiana ) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers from 1948 through 1959.