Chris Ellison was elected as Senator for Western Australia in 1993, replacing Peter Durack, and immediately became involved in parliamentary committees and inquiries across a range of portfolios.

* Senator Hon Peter Durack, QC MP: Minister for Repatriation ( 8 July 1976 to 5 October 1976 ).

* Senator Hon Peter Durack, QC: Attorney-General.

* Senator Hon Peter Durack, QC: Attorney-General

* 2012 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer ( d. 2012 )

* 1926 – Peter Graves, American actor ( d. 2010 )

* May 5 – Peter van Pels, German-Jewish love interest of diarist Anne Frank ( b. 1926 )

In 1926, building on Hickson's research, Peter Alexander suggested the bad quarto theory.

According to " A History of Washington County, Pennsylvania " by Earle R. Forrest ( 1926 ), the original plot of Burgettstown was surveyed February 28, 1795, by Peter Kidd, surveyor for George Burgett.

Amongst other poets of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of Roland Mathias ( 1915 – 2007 ), Leslie Norris ( 1921 – 2006 ), John Ormond ( 1923 – 1990 ), Dannie Abse ( born 1923 ), Raymond Garlick ( born 1926 ), Peter Finch ( born 1947 ), and perhaps also Paul Groves ( born 1947 ) have a significant place.

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

* The book is moved from 1926 to 1928, which results in an anachronism-Lord Peter meets briefly with the US Ambassador in Buckingham Palace and talks with the King, but at that point the King was actually desperately ill and recuperating from a bout of septicaemia.

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.

Mark Phillips is the son of the late Major Peter William Garside Phillips ( 1920 – 1998 ), and Anne Patricia Phillips ( née Tiarks ) ( 1926 – 1988 ).

Major advances first appeared in the late 1920s when cooling via adiabatic demagnetization was independently proposed by two scientists, Peter Debye in 1926 and William Giauque in 1927.

* Dagbøker og breve ( with Peter Jonas Collett ) 1926 – 34

* Peter Taylor ( botanist ) ( 1926 – 2011 ), British botanist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery ( 27 February 1926 – 9 December 2004 ) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Peter Kingsley Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, PC ( 20 November 1926 – 14 June 2012 ) was a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.

* Peter Martin Joseph Charles John ffrench, 7th Baron ffrench ( 2 May 1926 – 1986 ).

Peter Graves ( 1926 – 2010 ) was an American actor.

Peter Aurness ( March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010 ), known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

* Peter Rees ( born 1926 ), British Conservative party politician

In 1926 the Bassett Lowkes moved to New Ways, a pioneering modernist house designed by Peter Behrens close to Abington Park.

In 1926, Dysart succeeded Peter J. Veniot as leader of the Liberal party.

* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

* 1969 – Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver

* 1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician ( d. 2003 )

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright

* 1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player

* 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor

* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

* 1955 – Peter Schmuck, American columnist

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

Jonathan Trott ( England ) scored 168 not out while Peter Siddle ( Australia ) took 6 – 75.

* 1932 – Peter O ' Toole, Irish actor

* 1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver ( b. 1931 )

* 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer and politician ( Midnight Oil )

* 1971 – Peter Billingsley, American actor

* 1986 – Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player

* 1947 – Peter Christian, English actor

* 1951 – Peter Blegvad, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and illustrator ( Slapp Happy and The Lodge )

* 1957 – Peter Costello, Australian politician

* 1967 – Peter Hermann American actor

* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

* 1965 – Peter Krause, American actor

* 1913 – Peter Kemp, English soldier and writer ( d. 1993 )