George Dennett ( in full Edward George Dennett and sometimes erroneously just Edward Dennett ) was a left arm spinner for Gloucestershire between 1903 and 1926, and from his figures could be considered one of the best bowlers never to play Test cricket.

He had briefly praised Mrs. Dennett ’ s book in the May 1926 issue of The American Mercury, and took a sympathetic interest in her legal troubles:

During the following Australian winter ( 1926 ), an ageing Australian team lost The Ashes in England, and a number of Test players retired.

Jiang Zemin ( born 17 August 1926 ) is a retired Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2005.

Among previous pastors is William A. Poe ( born 1926 ), formerly an historian with Northwestern State University in Natchitoches who has retired to his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

* Whitey Lockman ( born 1926 ), a retired Major League Baseball player, primarily with the New York Giants.

Though he retired from Harvard's presidency in 1909, Eliot lived until 1926.

He retired for a short period, but came back in 1926 to beat Erminio Spalla by a decision in ten.

He sold the rest of his interest to Jesse H. Jones on June 26, 1926 and promptly retired.

He left the Treasury in 1919 for the National Debt Office, holding a post there until he retired in 1926.

Alvin Ray " Pete " Rozelle (; March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996 ) was the commissioner of the National Football League ( NFL ) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office.

The last active Bulldogs player in major-league hockey was Dave Ritchie, who retired in 1926.

After the proclamation of the Kruger National Park in 1926, the first three tourist cars entered the park in 1927, jumping to 180 cars in 1928 and 850 cars in 1929. Warden James Stevenson-Hamilton retired on 30 April 1946, after 44 years as warden of the Kruger Park and its predecessor, the Sabi Game Reserve.

The actor retired from films in 1926 to marry and raised a family in his home town in Italy.

Searight retired to Rome in 1926.

* Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet ( born 1926 ), retired British diplomat who was ambassador to Iraq, Iran and NATO

He retired as director of the Paris Observatory in 1926.

General Haller condemned Piłsudski's May Coup d ' État which resulted in him being retired on 31 January 1926.

She retired from the stage in 1926 and died from a stroke in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia.

He became superintendent in 1918 and held that office until he retired on January 1, 1926 due to poor health.

Bowen did not run for a second term and retired from the Assembly in 1926.

McCay retired from the Army in 1926 with the honorary rank of Lieutenant General.

Laverne Clarence " Verne " Gagne ( born February 26, 1926 ), is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter.

With six members of the team that played in the last Test in 1926 having retired, Australia would field and young and inexperienced team.

He retired from active service in the armed forces in 1926 with the rank of commander.

Ramsay retired from playing in June 1882, but remained at the club as Secretary from 1884 – 1926.

In 1926, at the age of 71, Ramsay retired as Secretary and became honorary advisor and a vice-president of the Club.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

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.

This house, where Gaudí lived from 1906 to 1926, was built by Francesc Berenguer in 1904.

It was included from 1926 to 1930 in Okeh Records ' catalog, which typically concentrated strongly on blues and jazz.

For many years he was a member of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, pastored from 1905 to 1926 by Social Gospel exponent Henry Sloane Coffin, while his wife and daughter belonged to the Brick Presbyterian Church.

Among his most well-known essays from this period are " Urban culture " 1924 ), " Temple baths on Jyväskylä ridge " ( 1925 ), " Abbé Coignard's sermon " ( 1925 ), and " From doorstep to living room " ( 1926 ).

Label of a Blind Lemon Jefferson Paramount record from 1926

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

In April 1926 Zinoviev was removed from the Politburo and in December, Trotsky lost his membership too.

An Imperial Conference in 1926 that included the leaders of all Dominions and representatives from India ( which then included Burma, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ), led to the eventual creation of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

* An escaped convict from Dartmoor figures in Nevil Shute's first novel Marazan, published in 1926.

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.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

* During 1926 the International Telegraph Communications Advisory Committee of the International Telecommunication Union met in Berlin and immortalised Baudot by designating the baud-shortened from his name-as the unit of telegraph transmission speed.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

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André de Lorde was the theater's principal playwright from 1901 to 1926.

Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from an auto-crash injury that refused to heal.

Only a few were caught from two whaling stations on the coast of California from 1919 to 1926, and a single station in Washington ( 1911 – 21 ) accounted for the capture of another.

It was shot from December 1925 to January 1926 and premiered in April.

Himmler's first leadership position in the SS was that of SS-Gauführer ( district leader ) in Lower Bavaria from 1926.