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1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-April
January 1 - Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann ), begins broadcasting.
January 1 , Turkey switches to the Gregorian Calender after reforms set by Kamal Ataturk
January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz
January 12 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry , in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression . It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy .
January 16 – BBC radio play about worker's revolution causes a panic in London
January 26 - John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
January 31 - British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
February 9 - Flooding on London suburbs
February 12 - Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins , appoints the Committee on Evil Literature
March 6 - The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
March 16 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
April 7 - Failed assassination attempt against Mussolini
April 12 - By a vote of 45 to 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck , after Brookhart had already served for over one year.
April 16 - Train crash in San Jose, Costa Rica - 178 dead
April 21 - Princess Elizabeth born in London
April 25 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi ."
May-July
August-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Births
January
January 3 - George Martin , English producer of The Beatles
January 8 - Evelyn Lear , American soprano
January 8 - Hanae Mori , Japanese fashion designer
January 8 - Soupy Sales , American comedian
January 11 - Lev Demin , cosmonaut (d. 1998 )
January 12 - Ray Price , American singer
January 14 - Maria Schell , Austrian actress (d. 2005 )
January 14 - Tom Tryon , American actor and novelist (d. 1991 )
January 17 - Moira Shearer , Scottish actress and dancer
January 19 - Fritz Weaver , American actor
January 20 - Patricia Neal , American actress
January 20 - David Tudor , American pianist and composer (d. 1996 )
January 21 - Steve Reeves , American actor (d. 2000 )
January 27 - Fritz Spiegl , Austrian journalist (d. 2003 )
January 29 - Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
February
February 2 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , President of France
February 6 - Haskell Wexler , American cinematographer
February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov , cosmonaut
February 8 - Neal Cassady , American writer (d. 1968 )
February 8 - Audrey Meadows , American actress (d. 1996 )
February 11 - Paul Bocuse , French chef
February 11 - Alexander Gibson , British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
February 11 - Leslie Nielsen , Canadian actor
February 12 - Paul Kurtz , American philosopher
February 16 - John Schlesinger , British film director (d. 2003 )
February 20 - Richard Matheson , American author
February 20 - Bob Richards , American track and field athlete
February 22 - Kenneth Williams , English actor (d. 1988 )
February 28 - Svetlana Alliluyeva , Russian author
March
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 6 - Alan Greenspan , American economist and Chairman of the Federal Reserve
March 6 - Andrzej Wajda , Polish film director
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 - Jerry Lewis , American comedian
March 16 - Charles Goodell , American politician (d. 1987 )
March 17 - Siegfried Lenz , German writer
March 18 - Peter Graves , American actor
March 24 - Dario Fo , Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad , Swedish businessman
April
April 1 - Charles Bressler , American tenor
April 1 - Anne McCaffrey , American author
April 2 - Jack Brabham , Australian race car driver
April 3 - Gus Grissom , astronaut (d. 1967 )
April 6 - Sergio Franchi , Italian tenor and actor (d. 1990 )
April 6 - Gil Kane , Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000 )
April 6 - Ian Paisley , British politician
April 7 - Dame Joan Sutherland , Australian soprano
April 9 - Hugh Hefner , American magazine or
April 17 - Gerry McNeil , Canadian hockey player (d. 2004 )
April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
April 22 - James Stirling , Scottish architect (d. 1992 )
April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin , Prime Minister of Sweden
April 26 - Michael Mathias Prechtl , German illustrator (d. 2003 )
April 30 - Cloris Leachman , American actress
May
June
June 1 - Andy Griffith , American actor
June 1 - Marilyn Monroe , American actress (d. 1962 )
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg , American poet (d. 1997 )
June 6 - Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor (d. 1998 )
June 11 - Frank Plicka , Czech-born photographer
June 21 - Conrad Hall , Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003 )
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian writer (d. 1973 )
June 28 - Mel Brooks , American entertainer
June 30 - Paul Berg , American chemist, Noble Prize laureate
July
July 1 - Robert Fogel , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 1 - Hans Werner Henze , German composer
July 4 - Alfredo Di Stefano , Argentine-born footballer
July 8 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004 )
July 9 - Ben Roy Mottelson , American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 15 - Leopoldo Galtieri , Argentine dictator (d. 2003 )
July 16 - Stanley Clements , American actor (d. 1981 )
July 16 - Irwin Rose , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
July 28 - Walt Brown , American Presidential candidate
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
February 21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853 )
March 5 - Clément Ader , French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (b. 1841 )
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 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 22 - Charles W. Eliot , President of Harvard University (b. 1834 )
August 23 - Rodolfo 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 )
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 25 - Emperor Taisho , 123rd Emperor of Japan (b. 1879 )
December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet (b. 1875 )
Nobel Prizes
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