1926
1926 was a Common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
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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 March 31 - John Fowles , English writer (d. 2005 ) 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 editor 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