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1926
1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-April
May-July
August-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January
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January 3 - George Martin, English producer of The Beatles
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January 5 - Maria Schell, actress
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January 8 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
- January 8 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
- January 8 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
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January 11 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
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January 12 - Ray Price, country music singer
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January 14 - Tom Tryon , actor and novelist (d. 1991)
- January 14 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
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January 17 - Moira Shearer , actress, dancer
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January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
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January 20 - David Tudor, pianist and composer
- January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
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January 21 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
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January 26 - Ralph Brance , baseball player
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January 27 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist (d. 2003)
February
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February 2 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
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February 6 - Haskell Wexler , cinematographer
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February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
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February 8 - Neal Cassady, writer (d. 1968)
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February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor
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February 11 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
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February 11 - Alexander Gibson , British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
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February 12 - Paul Kurtz, philosopher, founder of numerous secular humanist groups
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February 15 - Dieter Lattmann , writer and politician
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February 16 - John Schlesinger, film director
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February 20 - Richard Matheson, author
- February 20 - Bob Richards, track and field athlete
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February 22 - Kenneth Williams, actor (d. 1988)
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February 28 - Svetlana Josifovna Stalina later known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet author.
March-April
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March 1 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989 (d. 1996)
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March 2 - Murray Rothbard, American Economist (d. 1995)
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March 3 - James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize winning poet (d. 1995)
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March 6 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
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March 6 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
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March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star
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March 16 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
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March 17 - Siegfried Lenz, writer
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March 18 - Peter Graves, actor
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March 24 - Dario Fo, author, 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature
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March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur; founder of IKEA
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April 1 - Charles Bressler, American tenor
- April 1 - Anne McCaffrey, American science fiction author
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April 2 - Jack Brabham, Grand Prix driver
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April 3 - Gus Grissom, astronaut (d. 1967)
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April 6 - Gil Kane, cartoonist (d. 2000)
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April 6 - Ian Paisley, United Kingdom politician
- April 6 - Sergio Franchi , singer, actor (d. 1990)
- April 7 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano
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April 9 - Hugh Hefner, creator of the men's magazine, Playboy
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April 17 - Gerry McNeil, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie (d. 2004)
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April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
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April 22 - James Stirling, architect (d. 1992)
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April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
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April 26 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
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April 30 - Cloris Leachman, actress
May-December
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May 5 - Ann B. Davis, actress
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May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
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May 15 - Peter Shaffer, playwright
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May 19 - Peter Zadek , film and theatre director
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May 25 - Max von der Grün , author
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May 26 - Miles Davis, musician (d. 1991)
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June 1 - Andy Griffith
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June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
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June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet
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June 6 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
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June 11 - Frank Plicka, Czech-Australian photographer
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June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
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June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
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July 4 - Alfredo Di Stefano, Argentinian-born footballer
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July 28 - Walter F. Brown, Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate.
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August 14 - "Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
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August 19 - Arthur Rock, venture capitalist
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September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
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September 23 - John Coltrane, musician
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October 15 - Michel Foucault, philosopher
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October 15 - Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
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October 18 - Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll musician
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October 25 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
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October 29 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
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December 13 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
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December 16 - James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
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December 20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician
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December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
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December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet
Deaths
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March 5 - Clément Ader, French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (b. 1841)
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March 20 - Princess Louise of Sweden
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April 30 – Bessie Coleman, first licensed African-American female pilot
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May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan
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May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter.
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June 10 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect
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June 14 - Mary Cassatt, American artist
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July 4 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian mountaineer
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July 12 - Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
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July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman
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August 22 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
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August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor
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September 21 - Leon Charles Thevenin , French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
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October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician
- October 31 - Charles Vance Millar, rich Torontonian whose final Will sparked the Great Toronto Stork Derby
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December 4 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovene painter (b. 1861)
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December 5 - Claude Monet, French painter
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December 25 - Emperor Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan
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December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (b. 1875)
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