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May 5 - Ann B. Davis, actress, The Brady Bunch
May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
May 15 - Peter Shaffer, playwright
May 19 - Peter Zadek , film and theatre director
May 25 - Max von der Grün , author
May 26 - Miles Davis, musician (d. 1991)
June 1 - Andy Griffith
June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
July 4 - Alfredo Di Stefano, Argentinian-born footballer
July 28 - Walter F. Brown, Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate.
August 13 - Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator
August 14 - " Goscinny" (René Goscinny), French writer and co-creator of Asterix
September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
September 23 - John Coltrane, musician
October 15 - Michel Foucault, philosopher
October 18 - Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll musician
December 13 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
December 20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician
December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet

4 Deaths

March 5 - Clément Ader, French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
March 20 - Princess Louise of Sweden
April 30 – Bessie Coleman, first licensed African-American female pilot
May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan
May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter.
June 10 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect.
June 14 - Mary Cassatt, artist
July 4 - Frassati Piergiorgio , Member of FUCI.
July 12 - Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq"
July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman
August 22 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino, italian actor
October 31 - Harry Houdini, magician
October 31 - Charles Vance Millar, rich Torontonian whose final Will sparked the Great Toronto Stork Derby
December 4 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovene painter (b. 1861)
December 5 - Claude Monet, painter
December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet (b. 1875)

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1926Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 See also 1926 in aviation 1926 in film 1926 in literature 1926 in mu	1926 in musicSee also 1925 in music, other events of 1926, 1927 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Events June 26 Vaclav Talich conducts the world premiered of Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta in Prague October 21 Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto is given its world pre	1926 in televisionSee also 1925 in television, other events of 1926, 1927 in television and the list of 'years in television'. Events January 26 John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. August 18 A weather map is
1926 in filmSee also 1925 in film 1926 1927 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events August Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan''. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33 1/3 rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Wes	1926 in literatureSee also 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up''. It is the third book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.	1926 in CanadaSee also 1925 in Canada, other events of 1926, 1927 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history. Events February 26 James Gardiner becomes premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Charles Dunning June 28 the King-Byng Affair climaxes as Mackenzie King resign
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