* 1871 – Lorne Currie, British sailor ( d. 1926 )

A large log being placed on a railroad car at Batottan, British North Borneo in 1926

Although The Vanguard folded in 1926, the others were a great triumph and became known as " The Big Five "; they ended Amalgamated Press's near-monopoly of the British comic industry.

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.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

* 1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician

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 %.

* 1926 – John Frank Davidson, British chemical engineer and Royal Medal holder

Fulham became the first British team to sell hot dogs at their ground in 1926.

This was not because of any lack of regard for Isaacs personally, but because the British government considered that the choice of Governors-General was ( since the 1926 Imperial Conference ) a matter for the monarch's decision alone.

) Scullin was equally insistent that the monarch must act on the relevant Prime Minister's direct advice ( the practice until 1926 was that Dominion prime ministers advised the monarch indirectly, through the British government, which effectively had a veto over any proposal it did not agree with ).

As a result of decisions made at the 1926 Imperial Conference, the Governor-General ceased to be the diplomatic representative of the British Government, and the British right of supervision over Australian affairs was abolished.

The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.

* 1886 – Ronald Firbank, British novelist ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Michael Bond, British writer

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

Soon after the end of World War I, Lancia offered a 22 ° V12, Fiat had a 60 ° model 520 ( 1921-2 ), British truck manufacturer Ensign announced a V12 that did not materialize, and in 1926, Daimler ( Britain ) offered the first of a full range of sleeve valve Double Sixes, 7, 136 cc, 3, 744 cc, 5, 296 cc and 6, 511 cc versions remaining available until 1937.

A reorganization during 1926 led to the retention of the rolling stock group: Metropolitan Carriage wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited, British Lighting and Ignition Company, the Plywood department at Crayford Creek, Canadian Vickers, William Beardmore and Co, and Wolseley Motors

The constitutional crisis of 1926 provoked a consideration of the constitutional relations between the self-governing dominions and the British government.

* 1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1999 )

* 1926 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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

** Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1926 )

* November 21 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1926 )

* September 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1926 )

* Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 1853 – 1926, physicist.

* Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, ( 1853 – 1926 ), physicist Prize 1913

It was formulated in late 1925, and published in 1926, by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger.

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (; 9 January 1864 – 30 May 1926 ) was a Soviet / Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

In 1926, Dr Mark C Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar H Booth of the University of Sydney, devised a portable apparatus which " plugged into a lighting point " and in which " One pole was applied to a skin pad soaked in strong salt solution " while the other pole " consisted of a needle insulated except at its point, and was plunged into the appropriate cardiac chamber ".

* D. Allan Bromley ( 1926 – 2005 ), Canadian-American physicist

Willem Hendrik Keesom ( 21 June 1876, Texel – 24 March 1956, Leiden ) was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium.

Wilmot N. Hess ( October 16, 1926 – April 16, 2004 ) was an American physicist.

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

The effect was first observed by the German physicist Emil Warburg ( 1880 ) and the fundamental principle was suggested by Debye ( 1926 ) and Giauque ( 1927 ).

Robert Hutchings Goddard ( October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945 ) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

Lee, ) ( born November 24, 1926 ) is a Chinese-born American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion ( RHIC ) physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars.

Donald Arthur Glaser ( born September 21, 1926 ), is an American physicist, neurobiologist, and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics.

Benjamin Roy Mottelson ( born July 9, 1926 ) is an American-born Danish nuclear physicist.

* Richard Wilson ( physicist ) ( born 1926 ), British physicist