Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events of 1926 [edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 2 – Harold Bradley, American session guitarist on country music records
- January 3 – George Martin, English producer of The Beatles
- January 5 – William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
- January 6 – Kim Daejung, President of South Korea, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
- January 8
- January 11 – Lev Demin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- January 12 – Ray Price, American singer
- January 14
- January 15 – Florence Buchsbaum, theater director and musician (d. 1996)
- January 17 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and dancer (d. 2006)
- January 19 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
- January 20
- January 21 – Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
- January 26 – Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980)
- January 27
- January 29 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- February 2
- February 6 – Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
- February 7 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian cosmonaut
- February 8
- February 10 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993)
- February 11
- February 16
- February 17 – John Meyendorff, Orthodox scholar, protopresbiter, and teacher (d. 1992)
- February 20
- February 22 – Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
- February 27 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- February 28 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author, daughter of Joseph Stalin
[edit] March–April - March 1 – Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League (d. 1996)
- March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
- March 3 – James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
- March 4
- March 6
- March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Malaysia (d. 2001)
- March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
- March 15 – Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
- March 16
- March 17 – Siegfried Lenz, German writer
- March 18 – Peter Graves, American actor (Mission: Impossible)
- March 24 – Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 26 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
- March 30
- March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
- April 1
- April 2 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
- April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- April 6
- April 9 – Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (Playboy)
- April 12 – Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer
- April 14 – Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, teacher (d. 1996)
- April 14 – George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
- April 17 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player (d. 2004)
- April 21
- April 22
- April 24 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
- April 25 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
- April 26
- April 28 – Harper Lee, American author
- April 30
[edit] May–June - May 5 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (The Brady Bunch)
- May 8
- May 10 – Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (d. 2004)
- May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian and author. (d. 1984)
- May 15
- May 18 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
- May 20 – John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)*
- May 21 – Robert Creeley, American Poet (d. 2005)
- May 25 – Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach
- May 26 – Miles Davis, American musician (d. 1991)
- May 30 – Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman
- June 1
- June 3
- June 6 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
- June 11 – Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer
- June 12 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author
- June 13 – Paul Lynde, American comedian (Hollywood Squares) (d. 1982)
- June 15 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
- June 16 – William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI agent (d. 1996)
- June 21 – Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
- June 25 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
- June 28 – Mel Brooks, American entertainer (The Producers)
- June 29 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
- June 30 – Paul Berg, American chemist, Noble Prize laureate
[edit] July–August - July 1
- July 4
- July 8 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
- July 9 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 10 – Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (The Munsters) (d. 1993)
- July 13 – Andrew Maher, American actor
- July 15 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
- July 16
- July 18 – Robert Sloman, English writer (d. 2005)
- July 28 – Walt Brown, American presidential candidate
- July 30 – Sir Patrick Russell QC, PC, British High Court Judge
- August 1 – Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personality
- August 3
- August 6 – Norman Wexler, Academy Award nominated Screen writer
- August 11
- August 12 – Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
- August 13 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
- August 14
- August 17 – Jiang Zemin, former President of the People's Republic of China
- August 19 – Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
- August 23 – Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, Chicano literary historian
- August 27 – Pat Coombs, British actress (d. 2002)
[edit] September–October - September 2 – Ibrahim Nasir Rannabanderyi Kilegefan, Maldivian president (d. 2008)
- September 3 – Uttam Kumar (Arun Kumar Chatterjee), legendary Bengali Actor (d. 1980)
- September 6
- September 7 – Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
- September 14 – Dick Dale, American singer and musician
- September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- September 16 – John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
- September 19 – James Lipton, American television personality and writer
- September 21
- September 23 – John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
- September 26 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 7 – Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician
- October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
- October 15
- October 17 – Beverly Garland, American actress and hotel founder (d. 2008)
- October 18 – Chuck Berry, American musician (Johnny B. Goode)
- October 21 – Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009)
- October 22 – Gloria Carter Spann, sister of former President Jimmy Carter (d. 1990)
- October 25 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
- October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
- October 29 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- October 30 – Lois Wyse, American advertising executive, author and columnist (d.2007)
- October 31 – Jimmy Savile, English DJ and television presenter
[edit] November–December - November 2 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
- November 6 – Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
- November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano
- November 19 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006)
- November 20
- November 23
- November 25 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
- November 26 – Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- November 30 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
- December 1 – Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
- December 9 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
- December 16 – James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
- December 17
- December 20
- December 21 – Joe Paterno, American football coach and philanthropist
- December 23 – Robert Bly, American poet
- December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
- December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, queen consort of Italy (b. 1851)
- January 15 – Louis Majorelle, French furniture designer (b. 1859)
- January 21 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
- January 28 – Kato Takaaki, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1860)
- January 30 – Barbara La Marr, American film actress (b. 1896)
- February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward, stage & film character actress (b. 1862)
- February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- February 24 – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830)
- March 5 – Clément Ader, French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (b. 1841)
- March 12 – E.W. Scripps, American newspaper publisher (b. 1854)
- March 16 – Sergeant Stubby, World War IAmerican hero, most decorated war dog. First dog promoted to Sergeant. (b. 1916 or 1917)
- March 17 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
- March 24 – Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1860)
- March 26 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
- April 1 – Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855)
- April 9 – Henry Miller, stage actor & producer (b. 1859)
- April 20 – Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873)
- April 24 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea (b. 1874)
- April 30 – Bessie Coleman, African-American pilot (b. 1892)
- May 9 – J. M. Dent, British publisher (b. 1849)
- May 16 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
- May 26 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
- June 8 – Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner (b. 1860)
- June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
- June 14 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1844)
[edit] July–December - July 2 – Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
- July 12 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
- July 22 – Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882)
- July 26 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
- August 14 – John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
- August 21 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861)
- August 22 – Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
- August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
- August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886)
- September 15 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
- September 21 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
- September 25 – Herbert Booth, third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
- October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
- October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848)
- October 19 – Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (b. 1854)
- October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855)
- October 31
- November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860)
- November 7 – Tom Forman, American actor (b. 1893)
- December 4 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
- December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
- December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion (b. 1872)
- December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)
- December 24 – Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862)
- December 25 – Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (b. 1879)
- December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
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