* Janet Asimov ( born 1926 ), American science fiction writer

Bal Keshav Thackeray (; born 23 January 1926 ), popularly known as Hindu Hriday Samraat Balasaheb Thackeray is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

Their second son, Sydney Earle Chaplin, was born on 30 March 1926.

* Fred Cone ( running back ) ( born 1926 ), former professional American football running back

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Eli Wallach has been married to stage actress Anne Jackson ( born 1926 ) since March 5, 1948, and they have three children:

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

Hugh Marston " Hef " Hefner ( born April 9, 1926 ) is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises.

Hefner married Northwestern University student Mildred Williams ( born 1926 ) in 1949.

Jerry Lewis ( born March 16, 1926 ) is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director.

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

John Arthur Brabham was born on 2 April 1926 in Hurstville, then a commuter town outside Sydney, Australia.

Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois.

* 1926 – Carlos Valdes, conga player, born in Cuba, lived in USA, known as " Patato " ( d. 2007 )

Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian parents.

** Elizabeth II ( born 1926 ), Queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms

Ze ' evi was born in 1926 in Jerusalem.

Thích Nhất Hạnh (; born October 11, 1926 ) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist.

Born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Nhất Hạnh was born in the city of Quảng Ngãi in Central Vietnam ( Thừa Thiên ) in 1926.

* Harry Hillel Wellington ( born 1926 ), Dean of Yale Law School ( 1975 – 1985 ) and of New York Law School ( 1992 – 2000 )

* July 13 – Ruth Ellis ( born 1926 ) is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.

* October 6 – Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands ( b. 1926 )

Grissom was born in Mitchell, Indiana on April 3, 1926, the second child of Dennis and Cecile King Grissom.

Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London, the son of Louisa (" Lou " or " Louie ") and Charles Williams, a barber.

Warren Mitchell ( born Warren Misell ; 14 January 1926 ) is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 75 ), and its sequels Till Death ... ( ATV, 1981 ) and In Sickness and in Health ( BBC, 1985 – 92 ), all of which were written by Johnny Speight.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

The Latin author Apuleius was born in Madaurus ( Mdaourouch ), in what later became Algeria.

* Alien Sun ( born 1974 ), Singaporean actress

* Charlie Austin ( born 1989 ), English footballer

* Charles Austin ( born 1967 ), American athlete

* Chase Austin ( born 1989 ), American NASCAR racecar driver

* Dallas Austin ( born 1970 ), American musician

* Denise Austin ( born 1957 ), American fitness expert

* Jake T. Austin ( born 1994 ), American actor

* Johntá Austin ( born 1980 ), American singer-songwriter

* Kent Austin ( born 1963 ), American football player and coach

* Lloyd Austin ( born 1953 ), American general

* Phil Austin ( born 1941 ), American comedian and writer

* Sherrié Austin ( born 1970 ), Australian musician

* Stone Cold Steve Austin ( born 1964 ), American wrestler and actor

* Tracy Austin ( born 1962 ), American tennis player

* Woody Austin ( born 1964 ), American golfer

* Austin Butler ( born 1991 ), American actor

* Austin Collie ( born 1985 ), Canadian-born American football player

* Austin Healey ( born 1973 ), English rugby union player

* Austin Nichols ( born 1980 ), American actor

* Austin Stevens ( born 1950 ), South African photographer

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

* Ada Yonath ( born 1939 ), Israeli biochemist