What Happened In December 1926 In History

Historical Events for December, 1926

• 25th » Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1926

• 1st » Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (d. 2013)
• 1st » Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1st » Keith Michell, Australian actor
• 1st » Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1st » Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)
• 4th » Monty M. Wyche, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2014)
• 9th » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 9th » Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (d. 1995)
• 9th » Roger McGee, American actor (d. 2013)
• 11th » Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
• 13th » George Rhoden, Jamaican runner
• 15th » Ben Overton, American judge (d. 2012)
• 16th » James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
• 16th » A. N. R. Robinson, Trinbagonian politician, 3rd List of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago e.g President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
• 17th » Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 17th » Patrice Wymore, American-Jamaican actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 19th » Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
• 19th » Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
• 20th » Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 20th » Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German lawyer and politician, Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy or German Federal Minister of Economics (d. 2009)
• 21st » Arnošt Lustig, Czech author and playwright (d. 2011)
• 21st » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 23rd » Robert Bly, American poet and author
• 24th » Paul Buissonneau, French-Canadian singer and director
• 25th » Febo Conti, Italian actor (d. 2012)
• 25th » Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and violinist (d. 1987)
• 26th » Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
• 26th » Gina Pellón, Cuban-French painter and poet
• 27th » Jerome Courtland, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012)
• 28th » Donald Carr, German-English cricketer and referee
• 28th » Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 30th » Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 31st » Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic
• 31st » Billy Snedden, Australian politician, 17th Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1987)

Famous Deaths for December 1926

• 4th » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 5th » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 10th » Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 12th » Jean Richepin, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1849)
• 23rd » Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856)
• 24th » Wesley Coe, American shot putter, hammer thrower, and discus thrower (b. 1879)
• 25th » Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
• 29th » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian author and poet (b. 1875)

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