* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician

* 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

* 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, English author ( d. 2010 )

* 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor

* 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player ( d. 2007 )

* 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian writer

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba

In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

* 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist

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.

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer

* 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator ( d. 1926 )

* 1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer

He made a series of woodcut illustrations for an edition of Vergil's Eclogues published by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926 – 27.

On June 5, 1926, Chiang became Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), and on July 27 he launched a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition in order to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and to unify the country under the KMT.

The one-time jerseys were based on the uniforms worn by the then-Detroit Cougars during their inaugural season of 1926 – 27.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

It would be dissolved by Spanish and French forces on 27 May 1926.

Australia ’ s highest first class score was posted at the MCG when Victoria made 1107 against New South Wales in 1926 – 27.

The team finished as Division One runners-up in 1924 – 25, narrowly losing out to Huddersfield Town, but were relegated in 1926 – 27.

* May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor ( b. 1926 )

* March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor ( b. 1926 )

Virgil Ivan Grissom ( April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967 ), ( Lt Col, USAF ), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot.

* Marlow Cook ( born July 27, 1926 ) is a former Republican United States Senator from Kentucky.

Three years later they won the First Division championship a fourth time in 1926 – 27, with Hughie Gallacher, one of the most prolific goal scorers in the club's history, captaining the team.

He directed Le Retour à la Raison ( 2 mins, 1923 ); Emak-Bakia ( 16 mins, 1926 ); L ' Étoile de Mer ( 15 mins, 1928 ); and Les Mystères du Château de Dé ( 27 mins, 1929 ).

Even though it became one of the top-grossing films of the 1926 – 27 season, with nearly in receipts, it was, because of its cost, the only Garbo film of the period to lose money.

Nyarlathotep subsequently appears as a major character in " The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath " ( 1926 / 27 ), in which he again manifests in the form of an Egyptian Pharaoh when he confronts protagonist Randolph Carter.

Rickard's franchise begin play in the 1926 – 27 season.

Reichspatentamt awarded the patent on 27 December 1926.

Kristen Nygaard ( August 27, 1926 – August 10, 2002 ) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer and politician.

* Alice the Lumberjack ( December 27, 1926 ), finds Alice and Julius working as lumberjacks.

Ron Tugnutt, who was signed in the summer of 2000, supplied solid goaltending with 22 wins, which tied the 74-year-old League record for wins by an expansion-team goalie ( New York Rangers ' Lorne Chabot also had 22 wins in 1926 – 27 ).

The alignment of Route 18 through Middlesex County from Middlesex to Highland Park was first designated in the 1926 designing of a new highway system as State Highway Route S-29, a prefixed spur of New Jersey Route 29 ( U. S. Route 22 ) through Middlesex County, following Washington Avenue in Middlesex and the River Road in Piscataway until terminating at State Highway Route 27 near the Albany Street Bridge in Highland Park.

U. S. Route 22 ( US 22 ) is a west – east route and is one of the original United States highways of 1926, running from Cincinnati, Ohio, at US 27, US 42, US 127, and US 52 to Newark, New Jersey, at U. S. Route 1 / 9 in the Newark Airport Interchange.

Following Kent's departure in 1926, they finished 21st out of 22 clubs in 1926 – 27, but were unanimously re-elected to the league after a ballot of clubs in the top two divisions of The Football League.

Bradman's performances during Country Week resulted in an invitation to play grade cricket in Sydney for St George in the 1926 – 27 season.