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Birthdays

January 1 - Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
January 3 - George Martin, British producer
January 5 - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
January 5 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
January 6 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
January 6 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
January 6 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
January 6 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
January 6 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
January 8 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
January 8 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
January 8 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
January 8 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
January 9 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (d. 1970)
January 9 - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician
January 10 - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist
January 11 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
January 12 - Morton Feldman, American composer
January 12 - Ray Price, American singer
January 13 - Michael Bond, British writer
January 13 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)
January 14 - Frank Aletter, American actor
January 14 - Warren Mitchell, English actor
January 14 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
January 15 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996)
January 15 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress (d. 2005)
January 17 - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
January 17 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
January 19 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
January 20 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet
January 20 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
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 21 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
January 24 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
January 26 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
January 27 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
January 27 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
January 29 - Franco Cerri, Italian musician
January 29 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist
January 31 - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
February 1 - Stuart Whitman, American actor
February 2 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
February 3 - Shelley Berman, American comedian
February 3 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
February 6 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
February 6 - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov, cosmonaut
February 7 - John Frank Davidson, British chemical engineer and Royal Medal holder
February 8 - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
February 9 - Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
February 10 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
February 11 - Paul Bocuse, French chef
February 11 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor
February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor
February 12 - Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and announcer
February 12 - Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant
February 16 - John Schlesinger, English film director (d. 2003)
February 20 - Richard Matheson, American author
February 22 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
February 22 - Bud Yorkin, American film director
February 24 - Jean Alexander, English actress
February 24 - John Gunther Dean, American diplomat
February 26 - Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)
February 27 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist
February 28 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector
March 1 - Robert Clary, French-born actor
March 1 - Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the NFL (d. 1996)
March 1 - Cesare Danova, Italian-born American actor (d. 1992)
March 2 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
March 3 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
March 3 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003)
March 3 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
March 4 - Richard DeVos, American billionaire
March 4 - James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant
March 4 - Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
March 4 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
March 4 - Fran Warren, American singer
March 6 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
March 6 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
March 8 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
March 11 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
March 11 - İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish musician and composer
March 13 - Raúl Alfonsín, President of Argentina
March 13 - Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
March 13 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
March 15 - Ben Johnston, American composer
March 16 - Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
March 16 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
March 17 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer
March 18 - Peter Graves, American actor
March 18 - Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
March 24 - Dario Fo, Italian writer
March 25 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
March 25 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
March 28 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
March 30 - Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (d. 1992)
March 31 - John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
April 1 - Charles Bressler, American tenor
April 1 - Anne McCaffrey, American author
April 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, English author (d. 2008)
April 2 - Sir Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
April 3 - Alex Grammas, American baseball player
April 3 - Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
April 5 - Roger Corman, American film director
April 6 - Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
April 6 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
April 6 - Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
April 8 - Henry N. Cobb, American architect
April 8 - Shecky Greene, American comedian
April 8 - Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
April 9 - Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher
April 10 - Junior Samples, American musician (d. 1983)
April 11 - Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer
April 13 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
April 13 - Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
April 14 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer
April 14 - Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
April 17 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom,
April 21 - Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
April 22 - Charlotte Rae, American actress
April 22 - James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
April 23 - J. P. Donleavy, Irish American author
April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
April 25 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
April 26 - David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
April 26 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
April 28 - Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
April 28 - Harper Lee, American author
April 30 - Cloris Leachman, American actress
May 1 - Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician
May 2 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
May 5 - Ann B. Davis, American actress
May 6 - Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician
May 8 - David Attenborough, English naturalist
May 8 - Don Rickles, American comedian
May 10 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (d. 2002)
May 13 - Wallace Breem, British author
May 14 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
May 15 - Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
May 15 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright
May 16 - Ronald Podrow, British peace activist (d. 2004)
May 18 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
May 19 - Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
May 20 - Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
May 20 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
May 21 - Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
May 24 - Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
May 26 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor
May 26 - Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
May 26 - Miles Davis, American musician (d. 1991)
May 29 - Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
May 30 - Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
June 1 - Andy Griffith, American actor
June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
June 2 - Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
June 4 - Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became the heaviest known human (d. 1958)
June 6 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
June 10 - Lionel Jeffries, British actor
June 11 - Carlisle Floyd, American composer
June 12 - Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
June 13 - Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
June 14 - Hermann Kant, German author
June 14 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
June 15 - Mac McGarry, American quiz show host
June 15 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
June 21 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
June 28 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
June 29 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
June 30 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
July 1 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
July 1 - Hans Werner Henze, German composer
July 1 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
July 2 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer
July 4 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
July 8 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
July 9 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist
July 10 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
July 11 - Frederick Buechner, American author
July 14 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
July 15 - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
July 15 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
July 16 - Irwin Rose, American biologist
July 17 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
July 17 - Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
July 18 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
July 18 - Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
July 19 - Helen Gallagher, American actress
July 20 - Lola Albright, American actress
July 20 - Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
July 21 - Paul Burke, American actor
July 21 - Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
July 21 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
July 21 - Karel Reisz, British film director (d. 2002)
July 21 - Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
July 25 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
July 26 - James Best, American actor
July 26 - Ana María Matute, Spanish author
July 28 - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
July 30 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
July 31 - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
August 1 - Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
August 2 - Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite
August 3 - Tony Bennett, American singer
August 3 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004)
August 6 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
August 6 - Frank Finlay, British actor
August 6 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
August 7 - Stan Freberg, American voice comedian
August 8 - Richard Anderson, American actor
August 11 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist
August 11 - Claus von Bülow, Danish-born British socialite
August 12 - John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
August 12 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
August 12 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
August 13 - Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician
August 14 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007)
August 14 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
August 14 - Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
August 15 - Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician
August 17 - Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
August 17 - George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
August 17 - Jean Poiret, French actor
August 19 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
August 20 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
August 23 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
August 27 - Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
August 27 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
August 29 - Betty Lynn, American actress
August 29 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
September 1 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
September 1 - Gene Colan, American comic book artist
September 3 - Alison Lurie, American novelist
September 3 - Irene Papas, Greek actress
September 4 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player
September 6 - Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001)
September 6 - Claus von Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
September 7 - Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
September 9 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
September 11 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
September 13 - Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
September 14 - Michel Butor, French novelist
September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
September 15 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
September 16 - Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
September 17 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
September 17 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
September 18 - Bud Greenspan, American film producer
September 18 - Bob Toski, American golfer
September 19 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist
September 19 - James Lipton, American actor
September 19 - Duke Snider, baseball player
September 21 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist
September 21 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
September 23 - John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
September 25 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
September 25 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
September 26 - Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
September 26 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
September 28 - Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
September 30 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player
October 1 - Roger Williams, American pianist
October 2 - Jan Morris, English writer
October 5 - Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
October 7 - Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
October 9 - Danièle Delorme, French actress
October 10 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
October 11 - Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales
October 11 - Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
October 13 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (d. 2002)
October 13 - Walter "Killer" Kowalski, (wrestler) Canadian Wrestler
October 14 - Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
October 15 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
October 15 - Evan Hunter, American author (d. 2005)
October 15 - Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
October 15 - Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
October 17 - Julie Adams, American film actress
October 17 - Beverly Garland, American actress
October 18 - Chuck Berry, American musician
October 18 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
October 19 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
October 19 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
October 24 - Y. A. Tittle, American football player
October 24 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008)
October 25 - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
October 25 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
October 27 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
October 28 - Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
October 29 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
October 30 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
October 31 - Jimmy Savile, English entertainer
November 1 - Lou Donaldson, American jazz alto saxophonist
November 3 - Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
November 3 - Maurice Couture, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop
November 6 - Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
November 7 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano
November 9 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
November 11 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
November 13 - Harry Hughes, 57th Governor of Maryland
November 19 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
November 20 - Kaye Ballard, American comic actress
November 20 - Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (d. 2007)
November 20 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish endocrinologist
November 22 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
November 22 - Arthur Jones (inventor), American inventor (d. 2007)
November 23 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
November 24 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
November 25 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
November 25 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
November 27 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
November 30 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
December 1 - Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
December 9 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist
December 9 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
December 11 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
December 13 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
December 16 - James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
December 17 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
December 19 - Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
December 19 - Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
December 20 - Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician
December 20 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician
December 21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
December 23 - Robert Bly, American poet
December 24 - Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director
December 25 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and musician (d. 1987)
December 26 - Gina Pellón, Cuban painter
December 27 - Jerome Courtland, American actor

Deaths

January 12 - Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
January 15 - Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (b. 1883)
January 21 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician
January 26 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
January 30 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
February 2 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
February 21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist
March 5 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
March 16 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
March 17 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
March 26 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
March 27 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
April 11 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
April 19 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
April 28 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
May 13 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
May 16 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
May 25 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
May 26 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
May 27 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
May 30 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
June 4 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
June 10 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish
June 14 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
June 23 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
July 2 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
July 4 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
July 12 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist
July 20 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
August 14 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
August 22 - Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
August 23 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
September 5 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician
September 11 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer
September 21 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
September 25 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
October 7 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
October 13 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)
October 20 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
October 31 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
November 3 - Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
November 22 - Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
December 4 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
December 5 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840)
December 10 - Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs
December 12 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
December 25 - Emperor Taishō of Japan, (b. 1879)
December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)

Events

January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
March 7 - The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London.
March 14 - A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93.
March 15 - The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
March 16 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 6 - Walter Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 20 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
April 24 - The Treaty of Berlin under which Germany and the Soviet Union each pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
May 9 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
May 12 - UK General Strike 1926: in the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
May 18 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
May 25 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
May 28 - 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
June 14 - Brazil leaves the League of Nations
June 23 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
June 29 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
July 20 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 6 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
August 6 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
August 20 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.
August 22 - Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
September 8 - Germany was admitted to the League of Nations.
September 9 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
September 11 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
September 19 - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
October 1 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
October 14 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
October 22 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
October 24 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
October 31 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
November 11 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
November 15 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
November 18 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
November 25 - The deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
December 5 - Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin premieres.
December 17 - Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the ‎1926 coup d'état‎ is successful.
December 25 - Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.

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