What Happened In January 1926 In History

Famous Birthdays on January in 1926

• 1st » Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2008)
• 1st » Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
• 2nd » Howard Caine, American director (d. 1993)
• 3rd » W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman and politician, 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 3rd » George Martin, English composer and producer
• 5th » W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009)
• 5th » Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (d. 2000)
• 6th » Ralph Branca, American baseball player
• 6th » Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (d. 2002)
• 6th » Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
• 6th » Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
• 6th » Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
• 7th » Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea
• 8th » Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
• 8th » Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer (d. 2004)
• 8th » Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
• 8th » Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
• 9th » Jani Christou, Egyptian-Greek composer (d. 1970)
• 9th » Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
• 9th » Sydney Lotterby, English director and producer
• 10th » Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
• 11th » Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 12th » Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
• 12th » Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2011)
• 12th » Ray Price (musician) named Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 13th » Michael Bond, English soldier and author
• 13th » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author (d. 2003)
• 13th » Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer (d. 1999)
• 13th » Shakti Samanta, Indian director and producer (d. 2009)
• 14th » Frank Aletter, American actor (d. 2009)
• 14th » Warren Mitchell, English actor
• 14th » Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
• 15th » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (d. 2005)
• 16th » O. P. Nayyar, Indian composer (d. 2007)
• 17th » Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician
• 17th » Moira Shearer, Scottish-English actress and dancer (d. 2006)
• 19th » George Ives (actor) called George Ives, American actor (d. 2013)
• 19th » Jim Line, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 19th » Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 19th » Fritz Weaver, American actor
• 20th » Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic
• 20th » Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani author (d. 2007)
• 20th » Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
• 20th » David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 21st » Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)
• 21st » Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
• 23rd » Kyriakos Matsis, Cypriot EOKA member (d. 1958)
• 23rd » Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 24th » Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
• 24th » Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 26th » Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and scholar
• 26th » Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American businessman (d. 2014)
• 27th » Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
• 27th » Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
• 29th » Franco Cerri, Italian guitarist
• 29th » Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 30th » Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 31st » Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)

Famous Deaths for January 1926

• 10th » Eino Leino, Finnish poet (b. 1878)
• 12th » Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
• 14th » August Sedláček, Czech historian (b. 1843)
• 15th » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 21st » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 26th » John Flannagan (priest) called John Flannagan, American priest (b. 1860)
• 30th » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)

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