1926: Encyclopedia II - 1926 - Births

1926 - Births

1926 - 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)

1926 - 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 27 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• February 28 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author

1926 - 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 26 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
• March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman
• March 31 - John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)

1926 - 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

1926 - May

• May 5 - Ann B. Davis, American actress
• May 8 - Don Rickles, American comedian and actor
• May 15 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright
• May 26 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)

1926 - 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 16 - William F. Roemer, Jr., 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 30 - Paul Berg, American chemist, Noble Prize laureate

1926 - 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

1926 - August

• August 3 - Tony Bennett, American singer
• August 3 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (d. 2004)
• August 11 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 14 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
• August 19 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist

1926 - September

• September 7 - Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
• September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
• September 16- John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
• September 21 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 21 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani and Indian actress (she could have been born in 1929)
• September 23 - John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
• September 26 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1926 - October

• October 15 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
• October 15 - Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
• October 18 - Chuck Berry, American musician
• October 25 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
• October 29 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor

1926 - November

• November 2 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 3 - Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
• November 20 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• November 23 - Sri Satya Sai Baba, Indian guru
• November 23 - R.L. Burnside, American musician
• November 25 - Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)

1926 - December

• December 9 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, 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 20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician
• December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
• December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Births", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki