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Year '''1926''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1926 ==
===January-February===
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*Beginning of the [[Aquarian Age|Age of Aquarius]], according to cosmologist [[Patrizi Norelli-Bachelet]].
*[[January 1]]
**Ireland's first regular radio service, [[2RN]] (later ''Radio Éireann''), begins broadcasting.
**[[Turkey]] switches to the [[Gregorian calendar]] after reforms set by [[Kemal Atatürk]].
* [[January 8]] - [[Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud]] is crowned 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 to strike it rich in the big city. 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 29]] - [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''The Great God Brown'' opens at the Greenwich Theatre
* [[January 31]] - British and Belgian troops leave [[Cologne]].
* [[February 9]] - [[Flood]]ing in [[London]] suburbs
* [[February 12]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] minister for Justice, [[Kevin O'Higgins]], appoints the [[Committee on Evil Literature]]
===March-April===
[[Image:Goddard and Rocket.jpg|thumb|130px|right| [[March 16]]: [[Robert H. Goddard|Goddard]] with rocket in 1926.]]
* [[March 6]] - The [[Shakespeare Memorial Theatre]] in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] is destroyed by fire.
* [[March 16]] - [[Robert Goddard (scientist)|Robert Goddard]] launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at [[Auburn, Massachusetts]]
*[[March 23]] - [[Eamon de Valera]] organizes [[Fianna Fáil]].
* [[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 José, Costa Rica]] - 178 dead
* [[April 25]] - Reza Khan is crowned [[Shah of Iran]] under the name "[[Pahlevi]]."
* [[April 30]] - [[Bessie Coleman]] is killed after falling 2,000 feet from an airplane.
===May-June===
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* [[May 1]] - Coal miner's strike begins in Britain
* [[May 3]] - [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|The General Strike]] begins in support of the coal strike
* [[May 9]]
**[[Martial law]] in Britain because of the general strike
**French navy bombards [[Damascus]] because of [[Druze]] riots
**Admiral [[Richard E. Byrd]] and [[Floyd Bennett]] claim to have flown over the [[North Pole]] (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
* [[May 10]] - Talks between government and strikers begins in UK
* [[May 10]] - planes piloted by Major [[Harold Geiger]] and [[Horace Meek Hickam]], students at the [[Air Corps Tactical School]], collided in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachuted to safety.
* [[May 12]] - [[May 14]] - Military coup (the [[May Coup]]) by [[Józef Piłsudski]] succeeds in [[Poland]]
* [[May 12]]
**[[Roald Amundsen]] flies over the [[North Pole]].
**[[UK General Strike 1926]]: In the [[United Kingdom]], a [[general strike]] by [[trade union]]s ends (the strike began on [[May 3]]).
* [[May 18]] - Evangelist [[Aimee Semple McPherson]] disappears while visiting a [[Venice, California]] beach.
* [[May 23]] - First [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] constitution is established.
* [[May 26]] - [[Rifkabyl]] rebels surrender in [[Morocco]]
* [[May 28]] - [[1926 coup d'état]] commanded by [[Manuel Gomes da Costa]] in [[Portugal]] that installed the [[Ditadura Nacional]] (National Dictatorship) that would be followed by [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]].
* [[June 4]] - [[Ignacy Moscicki]] becomes president of Poland
* [[June 29]] - [[Arthur Meighen]] returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
===July-August===
* [[July 1]] - [[Kuomingtang]] begins a campaign in the northern China for unification
* [[July 3]] - [[Caudron C.61]] aircraft operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne crashes in Czechoslovakia
* [[July 9]] - New military coup in [[Portugal]], now by general [[António Óscar Carmona|Antonio Carmona]]
* [[July 12]] - Lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in [[Dover, New Jersey]]
* [[July 15]] - [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport|BEST]] buses make its début in [[Bombay]].
* [[July 23]] - [[Fox Film]] buys the patents of the [[Movietone]] sound system for recording sound onto [[film]].
* [[August 1]] - Failed assassination attempt against [[Jon Lee]] in [[Barcelona]]
* [[August 6]]
**[[Gertrude Ederle]] becomes the first woman to swim the [[English Channel]] from France to England
**In [[New York]], the [[Warner Brothers]]' [[Vitaphone]] system premieres with the movie ''[[Don Juan (movie)|Don Juan]]'' starring [[John Barrymore]].
* [[August 18]]
**British miners' union begins negotiations with the government
**A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in [[Washington, D.C.]]
* [[August 22]] - In [[Greece]], [[Georgios Kondylis]] ousts [[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]]
* [[August 25]] - [[Pavlos Kountouriotis]] announces that [[dictatorship]] is finished in Greece and becomes a president
===September-October===
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* [[September 1]] - [[Lebanon]] under the [[French Mandate]] gets its first constitution therefore becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.
* [[September 11]]
**[[Spain]] leaves the [[League of Nations]]
**[[Aloha Tower]] is officially dedicated at [[Honolulu Harbor]] in the [[Territory of Hawaii|Territory of Hawai'i]]
* [[September 18]] - [[Great Miami Hurricane]]: A strong hurricane devastates [[Miami, Florida]], leaving over 100 dead and caused several hundred million dollars in damage; equal to nearly $100 billion dollars today.
* [[September 20]] - Twelve cars full of gangsters open fire at the [[Hawthorne Inn]], headquarters of [[Al Capone]] in [[Chicago]]. Only one of Capone's men is wounded
* [[September 25]]
**[[League of Nations]] [[1926 Slavery Convention|Slavery Convention]] abolishes all types of [[slavery]].
**[[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
* [[September 26]] - [[Gene Tunney]] defeats [[Jack Dempsey]] and becomes heavyweight champion of the world.
* [[October 2]] - [[Józef Piłsudski]] becomes prime minister of Poland
* [[October 12]] - British miners agree to end their strike
* [[October 20]] - [[Hurricane]] kills 650 in [[Cuba]]
* [[October 23]] - Decree in Italy bans women from holding public office
* [[October 23]] - The Fazal Mosque is built, this was one of the first mosques built in London
* [[October 31]] - Magician [[Harry Houdini]] dies of [[gangrene]] and [[peritonitis]] that developed after his [[vermiform appendix|appendix]] ruptured.
===November-December===
* [[November 10]] - In [[San Francisco, California]], a necrophiliac [[serial killer]] named [[Earle Nelson]] (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then [[rape]]s his 9th victim, a [[boardinghouse]] landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
* [[November 10]] - [[Hirohito|Michinomiya Hirohito]] is crowned the 124th [[Emperor of Japan]]
* [[November 11]] - [[U.S. Route 66]] was established.
* [[November 15]] - The [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] [[radio]] network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]], [[General Electric]] and [[RCA]]).
* [[November 24]]
**The village of [[Rocquebillier]] in [[French Riviera]] is almost destroyed in a massive hail.
**[[Sri Aurobindo]] retires, leaving [[the Mother]] to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
* [[November 25]] - [[Death penalty]] re-established in [[Italy]].
*[[November 26]] - Arrest of all [[Italian Communist Party|Italian Communist]] [[Italian Chamber of Deputies|deputies]].
* [[November 27]]
**[[Vesuvius]] erupts.
**In [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], the restoration of [[Colonial Williamsburg]] begins.
* [[December 2]] - British prime minister [[Stanley Baldwin]] ends the [[martial law]] that had been declared due to general strike
* [[December 8]] - [[Agatha Christie]] disappears from her home in Surrey; on [[December 14]] she is found in [[Harrogate]] hotel
* [[December 17]] - Democratically elected government is overthrown during the [[1926 Lithuanian coup d'état]]; [[Antanas Smetona]] assumes the power in [[Lithuania]].
* [[December 18]] - [[Turkey]] converted to [[Gregorian calendar]] making 'tomorrow' [[January 1]] 1926
* [[December 25]] - In [[History of Japan|Japanese History]], end of the [[Taishō period|Taishō era]] and beginning of the [[Shōwa period|Shōwa era]] and the period of [[Japanese expansionism]]
===Undated===
* Widows pensions introduced in NSW
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at [[Stirling]], [[Alberta]] [[Canada]]
* The short-lived [[Western Australian Secession League]] is founded.
* [[International African Institute]] is founded.
* [[Raymond Pearl]] publishes landmark book, ''Alcohol and Longevity''.
* [[Selman Waksman]] publishes ''[[Enzymes]]''
* [[The Pike School]] of Andover, Massachusetts is founded.
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[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]]
**[[Evelyn Lear]], American soprano
**[[Hanae Mori]], Japanese fashion designer
**[[Soupy Sales]], American comedian
*[[January 11]] - [[Lev Demin]], cosmonaut (d. [[1998]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]], American singer
*[[January 14]]
**[[Maria Schell]], Austrian actress (d. [[2005]])
**[[Tom Tryon]], American actor and novelist (d. [[1991]])
*[[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]]
**[[Patricia Neal]], American actress
**[[David Tudor]], American pianist and composer (d. [[1996]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Steve Reeves]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[January 26]] - [[Franco Evangelisti]], Italian composer (d. [[1980]])
*[[January 27]]
**[[Fritz Spiegl]], Austrian journalist (d. [[2003]])
**[[Ingrid Thulin]], Swedish actress (d. [[2004]])
*[[January 29]] - [[Abdus Salam]], Pakistani physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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]]
**[[Neal Cassady]], American writer (d. [[1968]])
**[[Audrey Meadows]], American actress (d. [[1996]])
*[[February 10]] - [[Danny Blanchflower]], Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. [[1993]])
*[[February 11]]
**[[Paul Bocuse]], French chef
**[[Alexander Gibson (conductor)|Alexander Gibson]], British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
**[[Leslie Nielsen]], Canadian actor
*[[February 16]]
**[[John Schlesinger]], British film director (d. [[2003]])
**[[Margot Frank]], sister of [[Anne Frank]] (d. [[1945]])
*[[February 20]]
**[[Richard Matheson]], American author
**[[Bob Richards]], American track and field athlete
*[[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===
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*[[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]]
**[[Richard DeVos]], American billionaire, co-founder of [[Amway]]
**[[James J. Eagan]], former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. [[2000]])
**[[Fran Warren]], American popular singer
*[[March 6]]
**[[Alan Greenspan]], American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
**[[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
**[[Charles Goodell]], American politician (d. [[1987]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Siegfried Lenz]], German writer
*[[March 18]] - [[Peter Graves (actor)|Peter Graves]], American actor
*[[March 24]] - [[Dario Fo]], Italian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|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]]
**[[Charles Bressler]], American tenor
**[[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]])
**[[Gil Kane]], Latvian-born cartoonist (d. [[2000]])
**[[Ian Paisley]], Northern Irish politician
*[[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 (architect)|James Stirling]], Scottish architect (d. [[1992]])
*[[April 24]] - [[Thorbjörn Fälldin]], [[Prime Minister of Sweden]]
*[[April 25]] - [[Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner]], Austrian politician (d. [[2008]])
*[[April 26]]
**[[Michael Mathias Prechtl]], German illustrator (d. [[2003]])
**[[David Coleman]], British TV sports broadcaster
*[[April 28]] - [[Harper Lee]], American author
*[[April 30]]
**[[Cloris Leachman]], American actress
**[[Edmund Cooper]], British author & poet (d. [[1982]])
===May-June===
*[[May 5]] - [[Ann B. Davis]], American actress
*[[May 8]]
**[[Don Rickles]], American comedian and actor
**[[David Attenborough]], British broadcaster, naturist and producer
*[[May 10]] - [[Tichi Wilkerson Kassel]], American film personality and publisher of [[The Hollywood Reporter]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 15]]
**[[Peter Shaffer]], English playwright
**[[Anthony Shaffer]], English novelist and playwright (d. [[2001]])
*[[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]]
**[[Andy Griffith]], American actor
**[[Marilyn Monroe]], American actress (d. [[1962]])
*[[June 3]]
**[[Allen Ginsberg]], American poet (d. [[1997]])
**[[Roscoe Gardner Bartlett]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]
*[[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]], [[Japan]]ese [[Ainu people|Ainu]] activist (d. [[2006]])
*[[June 16]] - [[William F. Roemer, Jr.]], United States [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] 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, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Noble Prize]] laureate
===July-August===
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*[[July 1]]
**[[Robert Fogel]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Carl Hahn]], German automotive executive, chairman of [[Volkswagen]] from [[1982]] to [[1993]]
**[[Hans Werner Henze]], German composer
*[[July 4]]
**[[Alfredo Di Stéfano]], Argentine-born footballer
**[[Mary Stuart (actress)|Mary Stuart]], American soap actress (d. [[2002]])
*[[July 8]] - [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]], Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. [[2004]])
*[[July 9]] - [[Ben Roy Mottelson]], American-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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]]
**[[Stanley Clements]], American actor (d. [[1981]])
**[[Irwin Rose]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[July 18]] - [[Robert Sloman]], writer (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 28]] - [[Walt Brown]], American Presidential candidate
*[[July 30]] - [[Thomas Patrick Russell|Sir Patrick Russell]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]], British High Court Judge
*[[August 3]]
**[[Tony Bennett]], American singer
**[[Anthony Sampson]], British journalist and biographer (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 11]] - [[Aaron Klug]], Lithuanian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[August 12]] - [[Wallace Markfield]], American writer (d. [[2002]])
*[[August 13]] - [[Fidel Castro]], Cuban revolutionary and politician
*[[August 14]]
** [[Alice Ghostley]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
** [[René Goscinny]], French comic book writer (d. [[1977]])
*[[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 people|Bengali]] [[Actor]], is born in [[Kolkata]] (d. [[1980]]).
*[[September 6]]
**[[Maurice Prather]], American photographer (d. [[2001]])
**[[Claus von Amsberg]], Prince of the Netherlands and husband of [[Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands]] (d. [[2002]])
*[[September 7]] - [[Don Messick]], American voice actor (d. [[1997]])
*[[September 14]] - [[Dick Dale (singer)|Dick Dale]], American singer and musician
*[[September 15]] - [[Jean-Pierre Serre]], French mathematician
*[[September 16]] - [[John Knowles]], American author (d. [[2001]])
*[[September 21]]
**[[Donald A. Glaser]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Noor Jehan]], Pakistani singer and actress (d. [[2000]])
*[[September 23]] - [[John Coltrane]], American jazz saxophonist (d. [[1967]])
*[[September 26]] - [[Masatoshi Koshiba]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[October 7]] - [[Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski]], Polish mathematician
*[[October 9]] - [[Ruth Ellis]], British murderess (d. [[1955]])
*[[October 15]]
**[[Michel Foucault]], French philosopher (d. [[1984]])
**[[Karl Richter]], German conductor (d. [[1981]])
*[[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===
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*[[November 2]] - [[Tsung-Dao Lee]], Chinese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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]]
**[[Andrzej W. Schally]], Polish-born endocrinologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
**[[John Gardner (thriller writer)|John Gardner]], English spy novelist (d. [[2007]])
*[[November 23]]
**[[Sathya Sai Baba]], Indian guru
**[[R. L. Burnside]], American musician (d. [[2005]])
*[[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 in Physics|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]]
**Sir [[Geoffrey Howe]], British politician
**[[David Levine]], U.S. [[caricaturist]]
*[[December 21]] - [[Joe Paterno]], [[American football]] coach and philanthropist
*[[December 23]] - [[Robert Bly]], American poet
*[[December 31]]
**[[Billy Snedden]], Australian politician (d. [[1987]])
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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*[[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 in Physics|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]])
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*[[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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1846]])
*[[September 21]] - [[Leon Charles Thevenin]], French telegraph engineer (b. [[1857]])
*[[September 25]] - [[Herbert Booth]], the third son of [[William Booth|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==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Jean Baptiste Perrin]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Theodor Svedberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Grazia Deledda]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Aristide Briand]], [[Gustav Stresemann]]
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