1926: The Year in People
The year in numbers
2.01B
Calvin Coolidge
"Baby Face" — Jan Garber
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
In the news: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket
What happened in 1926
1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
Born in 1926
Gus Grissom
American astronaut
Andy Griffith
American actor and singer
Chuck Berry
American musician
Cloris Leachman
American actress
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer
Roger Corman
American film director, producer, and actor
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Argentine footballer
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor
Claude Akins
American actor
Bal Thackeray
Indian cartoonist and politician
Betsy Palmer
American actress
Jack Brabham
Australian racing driver and motorsport executive
Charlotte Rae
American actress
Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
Grandee of Spain
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
British peer
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Big Mama Thornton
American blues singer
Aldo Ray
American actor
George Habash
Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Abdus Salam
Pakistani theoretical physicist
Betty Lynn
American actress
Gordon Scott
American actor
Daryl Gates
American police chief
Anne McCaffrey
Irish science fiction writer
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Fritz Weaver
American actor