* 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

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

Ali Khan initially compaigned in the 1926 elections from the rural Muslim constituency of Muzzaffarnagar for the provisional legislative council.

After taking the oath, Ali Khan embarked his parliamentary career, representing the United Provinces at theLegislative Council in 1926.

Junaid Khan threatened Khiva in 1926, but was finally exiled in 1928.

In 1924, the Primary School Agriculture Teacher Training School was moved to Prachuap Khiri Khan Province and a second branch of the school was established in Saraburi Province in 1926.

Amanullah Khan ( Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ) ( June 1, 1892 – April 25, 1960 ) was the Sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, first as Emir and after 1926 as Malik ( King ).

The title went dormant after his assassination in 1842 until 1926 when Amanullah Khan resurrected it ( official from 1937 ) and was finally laid to rest with the abdication of Mohammed Zahir Shah in 1973 following a coup ; at other times the Afghan monarchy used the style Emir ( Amir al-Momenin ) or Malik (" King ").

Ghulam Nabi Nasher ( 10 May 1926 – 25 June 2010 ) was the son of Loe Khan Nasher and grandson of Sher Mohammad Khan Nasher.

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was elected a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1926 and presided at the Delhi Meeting of the All-India Muslim League in 1931, where he advocated the cause of the Indian Muslims through his presidential address.

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Netrakona Pouroshabha was established in 1887 & Ist chairmen of Pourashabha Elahi Newas Khan ( 1876 – 1926 ). The town has a population of 53, 853 ; male 51. 22 %, female 48. 78 %.

* 1926 – Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar

* 1926 – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter

* 1926 – Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer ( d. 2000 )

* November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1926 )

Noorjehan or Noorjehan ( Punjabi, ) was the adopted stage name for Pakistani Allah Wasai ( September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000 ) who was a legendary singer and actress in British India and Pakistan.

Miangul Golshahzada Abdul Wadud ( predecessor styled Amir-i shariat, successors and Wali ) of the tiny ( one valley ) Pakistani North West Frontier state of Swat called himself badshah from November 1918 to March 1926 .< sup ></ sup >

* Nobel Laureate Dr Abdus Salam ( 1926 – 1996 ), a world renowned scientist and first and only Muslim or Pakistani man to win the Nobel Prize in Physics ( 1979 ) for his gauge unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, which forms the basis of the Standard Model in particle physics.

* Noor Jehan ( 1926 – 2000 ), Pakistani singer and actress