* 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

* 1926 – Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author

* Michael Bond ( born 1926 ), English children's author

In 1926 Professor Heyrovský married Marie Koranová, and the couple had two children, a daughter, Judith, and a son, Michael.

According to the memoirs of a friend, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, Prince George's brother ( the Duke of Windsor ) believed that the son was Michael Temple Canfield ( 1926 – 1969 ), the adopted son of American publisher Cass Canfield – and the first husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

The marriage endured despite Howells ' frequent infidelities, and produced two children, Ursula ( 1922 – 2005 ), later an actress, and Michael ( 1926 – 1935 ).

* Michael Martin ( cricketer ) ( born 1926 ), former English cricketer

* Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury ( b. 1926 )

* Michael Holland-Hibbert, 6th Viscount Knutsford ( born 1926 )

* Michael William George Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth ( 1926 – 2001 )

Sir Michael Patrick Cashin, KBE ( 29 September 1864 in Cape Broyle, Newfoundland – 30 August 1926 ) was a Newfoundland businessman and politician.

George Michael Low ( born George Wilhelm Low ; June 10, 1926 – July 17, 1984 ) was a NASA administrator and 14th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Michael James Hugh Alison ( 27 June 1926 – 28 May 2004 ) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Gilbert, 1924 ), the Church of St. Michael and All Angels on Leigh Road and the Church of St. Margaret on Lime Avenue ( designed by Sir Charles Nicholson, begun 1926 and 1931, respectively ) are considered noteworthy buildings.

Werner Michael Blumenthal ( born January 3, 1926 ) served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977-1979.

He also chaired the Imperial Institute for eight years, and was in charge of the National Savings Committee from 1920 until 1926, when he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire ( GBE ), having become Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) thirteen years before.

Tedder was the parent of: Dick ( killed in France 1940 ), John Michael ( 1926 – 1994 ; Late Purdie Professor of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews ), and a daughter.

* John Michael King ( 1926 – 2008 ), American actor

* John Michael King ( 1926 – 2008 ), US actor

Other notable AIEE presidents were Alexander Graham Bell ( 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( 1901 – 1902 ), Schuyler S. Wheeler ( 1905 – 1906 ), Dugald C. Jackson ( 1910 – 1911 ), Michael I. Pupin ( 1925 – 1926 ), and Titus G. LeClair ( 1950 – 1951 ).

* Gottfried Michael Koenig ( born 1926 ), German-Dutch contemporary composer

* Michael Strogoff, a 1926 US silent film with Technicolor sequences

In 2012, he starred in Cristiada also known as For Greater Glory written by Michael Love directed by Dean Wright based on the true story of the Cristero War ( 1926 – 29 ), a rebellion which arose out of the Mexican government's persecution of Catholics in the 1920s in its attempt to secularize the country.

D ' Abernon was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1887, promoted to Knight Grand Cross in 1917, and made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1926.

Michael Mathias Prechtl ( April 26, 1926, Amberg – March 19, 2003, Nuremberg ) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist.