What Happened In July 1926 In History

Historical Events for July, 1926

• 4th » Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 23rd » 20th Century Fox Fox Film Corporation e.g Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1926

• 1st » Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1st » Carl Hahn, German businessman
• 1st » Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
• 2nd » Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (d. 2007)
• 3rd » Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (d. 1997)
• 4th » Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2014)
• 4th » Lake Underwood, American race car driver and businessman (d. 2008)
• 6th » Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (d. 2007)
• 8th » David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (d. 2014)
• 8th » Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
• 9th » Murphy Anderson, American illustrator
• 9th » Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate
• 10th » Fred Gwynne, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 11th » Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author
• 13th » Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (d. 2008)
• 14th » Wallace Jones, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 14th » Harry Dean Stanton, American actor and singer
• 15th » Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author (d. 2007)
• 15th » Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th List of heads of state of Argentina e.g President of Argentina (d. 2003)
• 16th » Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 16th » Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate
• 17th » Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)
• 18th » Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (d. 1987)
• 18th » Robert Sloman, English actor and journalist (d. 2005)
• 19th » Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 20th » Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
• 21st » Paul Burke (actor) e.g Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
• 21st » Norman Jewison, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 21st » Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 7th Governor of Balochistan
• 21st » Bill Pertwee, English actor (d. 2013)
• 21st » Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (d. 2002)
• 21st » Queenie Watts, English actress and singer (d. 1980)
• 22nd » Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 25th » Whitey Lockman, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2009)
• 26th » James Best, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 28th » Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist (d. 2003)
• 29th » Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, English academic and politician
• 29th » James Wellbeloved, English politician (d. 2012)
• 31st » Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (d. 2011)
• 31st » Hilary Putnam, American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher

Famous Deaths for July 1926

• 2nd » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 4th » Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
• 12th » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 20th » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian politician (b. 1877)
• 23rd » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 26th » Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)

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