1926

1926 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1926; MCMXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2679
Armenian calendar	1375; ԹՎ ՌՅՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6676
Bahá'í calendar	82–83
Balinese saka calendar	1847–1848
Bengali calendar	1333
Berber calendar	2876
British Regnal year	16 Geo. 5 – 17 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2470
Burmese calendar	1288
Byzantine calendar	7434–7435
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox); 4622 or 4562; — to —; 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger); 4623 or 4563
Coptic calendar	1642–1643
Discordian calendar	3092
Ethiopian calendar	1918–1919
Hebrew calendar	5686–5687
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1982–1983
- Shaka Samvat	1847–1848
- Kali Yuga	5026–5027
Holocene calendar	11926
Igbo calendar	926–927
Iranian calendar	1304–1305
Islamic calendar	1344–1345
Japanese calendar	Taishō 15 / Shōwa 1; (昭和元年)
Javanese calendar	1856–1857
Juche calendar	15
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4259
Minguo calendar	ROC 15; 民國15年
Nanakshahi calendar	458
Thai solar calendar	2468–2469
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年; (female Wood-Ox); 2052 or 1671 or 899; — to —; 阳火虎年; (male Fire-Tiger); 2053 or 1672 or 900

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1923 1924 1925 – 1926 – 1927 1928 1929

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.

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January 1 – Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting.
January 8 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the 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 for extra money during the Depression. 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 31 – British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
February 9 – Flooding on London suburbs
March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire
March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
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 Jose, Costa Rica – 178 dead
April 21 – Princess Elizabeth born in London
April 25 – Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi."

January 1 - Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
January 3 – George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records, later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (d. 2016)
January 11 – Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1984)
January 20 – Patricia Neal, American stage and film actress (d. 2010)
January 21 – Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2000)
January 27 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
January 29 – Franco Cerri, Italian jazz guitarist
January 29 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel Prize in Physics winner (d. 1996)

April 3 – Timothy Bateson, English actor (d. 2009)
April 7 – James Garner, American actor (d. 2014)
April 9 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy magazine (d. 2017)
April 21 – Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms.
April 28 – Harper Lee, American writer (d. 2016)
April 30 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)

May 8 – David Attenborough, British documentary movie maker, broadcaster and naturalist
May 8 – Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian (d. 2017)
May 25 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
May 26 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
May 29 – Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal

June 1 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress, singer and model (d. 1962)
June 3 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet and writer (d. 1997)
June 16 – Efraín Ríos Montt, President of Guatemala (d. 2018)
June 28 – Mel Brooks, American actor, screenwriter, movie director and movie producer

September 6 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
September 19 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2020)
September 26 – Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000)