* 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian writer

* 1926 – Géza Kádas, Hungarian swimmer ( d. 1979 )

* 1926 – Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter ( d. 2005 )

* 2003 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist ( b. 1926 )

* 1926 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer ( d. 2003 )

In 1926, Hungarian engineer Kálmán Tihanyi designed a television system utilizing fully electronic scanning and display elements, and employing the principle of " charge storage " within the scanning ( or " camera ") tube.

* Hungarian translation of Rasmussen 1926.

During the first three decades of its existence, the club was little more than a village team and enjoyed only moderate success, winning a single Hungarian Cup in 1926.

It was created by the 1926 union of the German-inhabited ( formerly Szászrégen ) and the Hungarian-inhabited ( formerly Magyarrégen ) city, and later joined with the two smaller communities of Apalina ( Hungarian: Abafája ; German: Bendorf ) and Iernuţeni ( Hungarian: Radnótfája ; German: Etschdorf ), added in 1956.

By 1926, Aigner was a reporter for Az Est, the Hungarian newspaper group, and soon became a photographer with them.

The first performance was at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest, 1926.

Vilmos Vázsonyi ( born as Vilmos Weiszfeld ; 1868 – 1926 ) was a Hungarian publicist and politician.

* Baron Ivan Rubido Zichy de Zich et Zagorje ( born 17 June 1874, died Graz 16 May 1964 ) Royal Hungarian Minister to the Court of St. James 1926.

Police visited the house on 3 October and learned that it had been rented by a Hungarian immigrant named Stephen Bradley, born István Baranyay in 1926 in Budapest.

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

* 1926 – Rocco Petrone, American engineer ( d. 2006 )

In 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men ( including Ellsworth, Riiser-Larsen, Oscar Wisting, and the Italian air crew led by aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile ) made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge designed by Nobile.

* 1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer ( b. 1857 )

* March 30 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer ( d. 1926 )

* February 4 – Clément Ader, French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer ( d. 1926 )

The development of industrial refrigeration by German engineer Carl von Linde during the 1870s eliminated the need to cut and store natural ice, and, when the continuous-process freezer was perfected in 1926, commercial mass production of ice cream and the birth of the modern ice cream industry was underway.

* Oberlin Smith ( 1840 – 1926 ), engineer and inventor.

Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (; 7 February 1926 – 21 November 2009 ) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer.

Norton's theorem is an extension of Thévenin's theorem and was introduced in 1926 separately by two people: Siemens & Halske researcher Hans Ferdinand Mayer ( 1895 – 1980 ) and Bell Labs engineer Edward Lawry Norton ( 1898 – 1983 ).

The theorem was first discovered by German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz in 1853, but was then rediscovered in 1883 by French telegraph engineer Léon Charles Thévenin ( 1857 – 1926 ).

After graduating as an engineer from a Munich technical college, he joined the Junkers company in 1926.

* James L. Gray ( 1926 – 2010 ), Scottish turbine design engineer

* May 26 – Washington Roebling ( died 1926 ), civil engineer.

* February 4-Clément Ader ( died 1926 ), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.

Stong was an electrical engineer from 1926 to 1962 for Westinghouse.

* Petras Vileišis ( 1851 – 1926 ), engineer, Lithuanian activist

* Gheorghe Ursu ( 1926 – 1985 ), a Romanian construction engineer

Kenneth Harry Olsen ( February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011 ) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson.

The first aerosol spray can patent was granted in Oslo in 1926 to Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer, and a United States patent was granted for the invention in 1931.

Tikhonov worked as an assistant engineer from 1924 to 1926.

During the flight to Australia, Sir Alan J. Cobham's engineer of the D. H. 50 aircraft, Mr. Arthur B. Elliot, was shot and killed after leaving Bagdad ( 5 July 1926 ).

* John Stamper ( 1926 – 2003 ), aeronautical engineer.

Her notable films include Lady Hamilton ( 1921 ; her breakthrough role ); Lucrezia Borgia ( 1926 ); Die Csardasfürstin ( 1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán ); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus ( The Song Is Ended ) ( 1930 ) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn ( 1936 ).

* 1926 Die Zirkusprinzessin ( The Circus Princess ), music by Emmerich Kálmán

In 1926, the British physicist Ralph H. Fowler observed that the relationship among the density, energy and temperature of white dwarfs could be explained by viewing them as a gas of nonrelativistic, non-interacting electrons and nuclei which obeyed Fermi-Dirac statistics.

* First aired on 17 May 2008, an episode of the BBC Television Science Fiction Drama Doctor Who entitled " The Unicorn and the Wasp " made reference to the novel in a plot in which Christie's well-recorded disappearance in 1926 was explained by the intervention of a Vespiform-a shape-changing alien resembling a giant wasp.