* 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

* 1865 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader ( d. 1926 )

* 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist ( b. 1926 )

The Japanese imperial dynasty consistently practiced official polygamy, a practice that only ended in the Taishō period ( 1912 – 1926 ).

Emperor Hirohito ( 裕仁 ), or the Shōwa Emperor ( 昭和天皇 ), the last Japanese Emperor having ruled with prerogative powers, combined with assumption of divinity ( photographed 1926 ).

* Toshirō Daigo ( born 1926 ), Japanese 10th dan judoka

* 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer

* 1875 – Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

The first diving equipment that combined a high-pressure cylinder and a breathing device ( although not a demand regulator as was the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus ) was invented separately by the Japanese Ohgushi in 1918 and the Frenchmen Maurice Fernez and Yves le Prieur in 1926.

* August 15 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki ( d. 1926 )

* November 10 – Enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor Hirohito is held, after some two years since he actually took the Imperial throne on December 26, 1926, the following day of the demise of Emperor Taishō.

It appears that the first Japanese sound film, Reimai ( Dawn ), was made in 1926 with the De Forest Phonofilm system.

* Dornier Do N Design for Japanese as Kawasaki Ka 87 ( 1926 )

Count was a Japanese politician and the 24th Prime Minister of Japan from 11 June 1924 to 28 January 1926.

He became Chief of the 3rd Section of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in December 1926.

In November 1926 the team prepared and presented Prince Hirohito with a collection of 90 specimens of 37 genera of Japanese slime molds.

By the time he was 12, less than three years after first learning the game, he was already of professional strength, as evidenced by his games against the visiting Japanese player Iwamoto Kaoru, 6p in 1926.

( born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi ) is a Japanese physicist.

In the 20th century, various protests against Japanese occupation used the term in their names, including a pro-independence newspaper established in 1906, the March 1st Movement of 1919, and the June 10th Movement of 1926.

Empress Kōjun was empress consort ( kōgō ) from 25 December 1926 to 7 January 1989, making her the longest lived empress consort in Japanese history.

The first Japanese immigrants who were for Amazon left the Port of Kobe in Japan, on July 24, 1926, and only reached the city of Tomé-Açu, on 22 September of that year, with stops in Rio de January and Belém.

The, or Shōwa era, is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of the Shōwa Emperor, Hirohito, from December 25, 1926, through January 7, 1989.

There was Western support of the anti-Bolshevik White movement in the Russian Civil War, the 1926 Soviet funding of a British general workers strike causing Britain to break relations with the Soviet Union, Stalin's 1927 declaration of peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries " receding into the past ," conspiratorial allegations during the 1928 Shakhty show trial of a planned British-and French-led coup d ' état, the American refusal to recognize the Soviet Union until 1933 and the Stalinist Moscow Trials of the Great Purge, with allegations of British, French, Japanese and Nazi German espionage.

Philadelphia is also home to over 2000 flowering Japanese cherry trees, half of which were a gift from the Japanese government in 1926 in honor of the 150th anniversary of American independence, with the other half planted by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia between 1998 and 2007.