* 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

* Sir Charles Waldstein, Alcamenes and the establishment of the classical type in Greek art ; 1926

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

* 1926 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor ( d. 1995 )

* Sir John McLeavy Brown ( 1835 – 1926 ), British lawyer and diplomat

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

Concordia was created following the 1974 merger of Loyola College ( 1896 ) and Sir George Williams University ( 1926 ).

In 1926, the education program was re-organized as Sir George Williams College, named after George Williams, founder of the YMCA.

# Amelia Herschel ( 1841 – 1926 ) married Sir Thomas Francis Wade, diplomat and sinologist

* Sir Francis Younghusband The Epic of Mount Everest, 1926, Edward Arnold & Co.

* 1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.

Sir Nizamat Jung Bahadur, of Hyderabad, also wrote an epic poem on the subject, Rudel of Blaye, in 1926.

A long-serving mayor of the town, Sir Frank Gibson ( 1919 – 1923 and 1926 – 1952 ), was also a Liberal parliamentarian from 1942 to 1956.

Typical examples are choruses conducted by Sir Henry Wood, recorded in 1926 for Columbia with the 3, 500-strong choir and orchestra of the Crystal Palace Handel Festival, and a contemporary rival disc from HMV featuring the Royal Choral Society under Malcolm Sargent, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sir Squire Bancroft ( 14 May 1841 – 19 April 1926 ), born Squire White Butterfield, was an English actor-manager.

* Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London ( 1840 – 1926 ), royal physician

* Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London ( 1840 – 1926 ), physician to Queen Victoria

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.

** Isabella Graham Cockburn ( c. 1848-Kensington, London, 5 January 1926 ), married on 31 January 1894 as his third wife to Sir James Shaw Hay ( 25 October 1839-20 June 1924 ), without issue

In 1926 she married the first of her three husbands, actor Henry Lytton, Jr., the son of singer and actress Louie Henri and Sir Henry Lytton the doyen of the Savoy Theatre.

Sir Sidney Lee ( 5 December 1859 – 3 March 1926 ) was an English biographer and critic.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman FRS ( 6 November 1865 – 2 June 1926 ) was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer.

* Sir James Stirling ( architect ) ( 1926 – 1992 ), architect