Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1926
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
November-December
Undated
Births
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
- 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 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France
- February 6 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
- February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
- February 8
- February 10 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993)
- February 11
- February 16
- 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
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 (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
- March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 26 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
- March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman
- March 31 - John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
- April 1
- April 2 - Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
- April 3 - Gus Grissom, astronaut (d. 1967)
- April 6
- April 9 - Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor
- April 12 - Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer
- April 14 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, teacher (d. 1996)
- April 17 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player (d. 2004)
- April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- April 21 - Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
- April 22 - James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
- April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
- April 26
- April 28 - Harper Lee, American author
- April 30
May-June
- May 5 - Ann B. Davis, American actress
- May 8
- May 10 - Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (d. 2004)
- May 15
- May 18 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
- May 20 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
- May 25 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach
- May 26 - Miles Davis, American musician (d. 1991)
- June 1
- June 3
- June 6 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
- June 11 - Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer
- June 13 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (d. 1982)
- June 15 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
- June 16 - William F. Roemer, Jr., United States Federal Bureau of Invetigation 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
- June 29 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
- June 30 - Paul Berg, American chemist, Noble Prize laureate
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 (d. 1993)
- July 13 - Andrew Maher, American actor
- July 15 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
- July 16
- July 18 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
- July 28 - Walt Brown, American Presidential candidate
- July 30 - Sir Patrick Russell QC, PC, British High Court Judge
- August 3
- August 11 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 12 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
- August 13 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
- August 14
- 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)
September-October
- September 3 - Uttam Kumar (Arun Kumar Chatterjee), the legendary Bengali Actor, is born in Kolkata (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 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
- October 18 - Chuck Berry, American musician
- 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
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 - Allan V. Cox, American geologist (d. 1987)
- December 17 - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat". equipment manager for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1962-2008 (d.2008)
- December 20
- December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach and philanthropist
- December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet
- December 31
Deaths
January - June
- 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 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 26 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
- April 24 - Sunjong of Korea (b. 1874)
- April 30 - Bessie Coleman, American pilot (b. 1892)
- May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
- May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
- June 10 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
- June 14 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1844)
July - December
- July 12 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
- July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman (b. 1843)
- August 14 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
- August 22 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
- August 23 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
- 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, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
- October 20 - Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855)
- October 31 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
- October 31 - Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853)
- December 4 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
- December 5 - Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
- December 17 - Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)
- December 25 - Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan (b. 1879)
- December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
Nobel prizes
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