* 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 – 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 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician ( b. 1926 )

** Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer ( b. 1926 )

Sergio Pininfarina, born Sergio Farina, ( 8 September 1926 – 3 July 2012 ) was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life.

Sergio Franchi ( born Sergio Franci Galli ; April 6, 1926 – May 1, 1990 ) was an Italian-born tenor and actor who enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame as a multimedia star and recording artist after being discovered on British television in 1962.

* 1926 – Lina Wertmüller, Italian writer and director

Ettore Ximenes ( April 11, 1855, Palermo – December 20, 1926, Rome ) was an Italian sculptor of mostly religious and mythological subjects.

Territorial growth of Italian Libya: Territory ceded by Ottoman Empire 1912 ( dark-green ) but effectively Italy controlled only five ports ( black ), territories ceced by France and Britain 1919 and 1926 ( light-green ), territories ceced by France and Britain 1934 / 35 ( red )

From 1898 to 1926 Italian football was organised into regional groups.

* 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint ( b. 1901 )

* 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate

* 2008 – Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer ( b. 1926 )

Nuoro is the hometown of Grazia Deledda, the first and only Italian woman to win ( 1926 ) the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1926, an Italian and an American group claimed to have isolated a sample of element 61 ; both " discoveries " were soon proven to be false.

In 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men ( including Ellsworth, Riiser-Larsen, Oscar Wisting, and the Italian air crew led by aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile ) made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge designed by Nobile.

Littoral Slovenes, who were subjected to Fascist Italianization since the Treaty of Rapallo, experienced increase in Fascist brutality, personified by Lojze Bratuž, a Slovene choirmaster who led several Slovene language church choirs, being tortured and forced to drink petrol and engine oil because he resisted the italianization of Slovenian names and surnames by Italian Fascists, which begun as early as 1926

During the 1920s, the government of Yemen forged relations with the Italian government under Mussolini, which lead to the conclusion of an Italian-Yemeni friendship treaty on September 2, 1926.

* July 11 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author ( b. 1926 )

* May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor ( d. 1926 )

** G. P. Nerli, Italian painter ( d. 1926 )

** G. P. Nerli, Italian painter ( d. 1926 )

* July 7 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1926 )

Rudolph Valentino ( May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926 ) was an Italian actor, known simply as " Valentino " and also an early pop icon.

* Russian — Chagall, Marc ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot with Umbrella ( 1926 ); Somov, Konstantin: Lady and Pierrot ( 1910 ), Curtain Design for Moscow Free Theater ( 1913 ), Italian Comedy ( 1914 ; two versions ); Suhaev, Vasilij, and Alexandre Yakovlev: Harlequin and Pierrot ( Self-Portraits of and by Suhaev and A. Yakovlev ) ( 1914 ); Tchelitchew, Pavel ( worked mainly in France and U. S. A .): Pierrot ( 1930 ).

Camillo Golgi ( July 7, 1843 – January 21, 1926 ) was an Italian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate.