1926

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

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

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Births

• February 11 - [Paul Bocuse]?, French chef
• February 11 - [Alexander Gibson]?, British conductor and founder of the [Scottish Opera]?
• May 26 - Miles Davis, musician
• June 1 - [Andy Griffith]?
• June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
• June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
• Murray Rothbard, American economist
• Allen Ginsberg, US poet

Deaths

• December 5 - Claude Monet, painter

Events

• [John Logie Baird]? invents the television.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Jean Baptiste Perrin]?
• Chemistry - [Theodor Svedberg]?
• Medicine - [Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]?
• Literature - [Grazia Deledda]?
• Peace - [Artistide Briand]? [Gustav Stresemann]?