1926

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

Events

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 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)