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1926 the magazine 1926 (magazine) March 2011 1926 1926 border:none;b 3/3 1926 hurricane damage to Knights Chapel.jpg Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike.jpg Countermand concession.jpg Ejército Unión Popular Cristera.jpg Piłsudski May 1926.jpg Emperor Showa.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The 1926 Miami hurricane devastates southern Florida and parts of the Caribbean, killing hundreds and causing massive destruction; The 1926 United Kingdom general strike brings the nation to a standstill as millions of workers walk out in support of coal miners; The Northern Expedition is launched by the Kuomintang to unify China under its rule, marking a turning point in the Chinese Civil War; The Cristero War erupts in Mexico as Catholic rebels take up arms against the government’s anti-clerical policies; The May Coup sees Marshal Józef Piłsudski overthrow the government in a three-day military coup; Hirohito ascends the throne as Emperor of Japan, beginning the Shōwa era. 1926 1926 2 Events January January 1926 January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. Shrader Charles The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949 Praeger Westport, Connecticut 1999 9780275965440 68 January 8 Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz. Prescott Holden Thorp The Commemorative Stamps of the World Scott Stamp and Coin Company 1934 303 Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam. January 16 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting. http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic The BBC Radio Panic, 1926 Museum of Hoaxes January 3, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150103085814/http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic January 3, 2015 live January 21 – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties. January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times. January 31 – British and Belgian troops leave Cologne. February February 1926 February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years. February 12 – The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature. February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week, a food and agriculture fair, debuts in Germany. February 25 – Francisco Franco becomes General in Spain. March March 1926 thumb|130px|March 16: Goddard with rocket in 1926. March 6 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (England) is destroyed by fire.Wilson Richard 2017-05-03 Bonfire in Merrie England https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n09/richard-wilson/bonfire-in-merrie-england 2025-08-05 London Review of Books en 39 9 0260-9592 June 14, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250614164134/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n09/richard-wilson/bonfire-in-merrie-england live The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to South Africa is established by Alan Cobham. March 14 – El Virilla train accident in Costa Rica: 385 people are killed and 93 injured when an overloaded pilgrim special derails on a bridge. The SS Ile de france Was Launched at Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyards in Saint Nazaire, France As one of the first ships to embrace the Art Deco style Armistead Samuel Oral tradition and Hispanic literature: essays in honor of Samuel G. Armistead Garland Pub New York 1995 9780815320623 315 March 16 – Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. March 23 – Éamon de Valera organises the political party Fianna Fáil in Ireland. April April 1926 April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins the presidential election, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion. April 5, 1926 Pangalos Named Greek President in Poll Farce Chicago Daily Tribune 16 April 6 – Aarón Joaquín has a vision in the Nuevo León state of Mexico, origin of La Luz del Mundo, a nontrinitarian charismatic restorationist Christian church.De la Torre Renee Los hijos de la luz: discurso, identidad y poder en La Luz del Mundo 2000 ITESO 968-5087-15-6 https://books.google.com/books?id=mzxw5UPpPNoC&q=hermosa+provincia+luz+del+mundo 2013-10-08 es 73 April 7 – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails. Radzinowicz Leon Adventures in criminology Routledge London New York 1999 9781134639359 21 April 17 – Zhang Zuolin's army captures Beijing. Dailey Charles April 18, 1926 Chang's Son, at Head of Troops, Invades Peking Chicago Daily Tribune 13 April 24 – Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years. April 25 – Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name "Pahlevi". April 30 – A state of emergency is proclaimed in the United Kingdom under the Emergency Powers Act 1920 on account of the "threat of cessation of work in Coal Mines".https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1926/may/03/emergency-powers-act-royal-proclamation#column_35 Hansard, House of Commons, 5th Series, vol. 195, col. 35 (3 May 1926). April 23, 2025 January 11, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250111092836/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1926/may/03/emergency-powers-act-royal-proclamation#column_35 live May May 1926 May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners. May 9 The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots. Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time. http://www.livescience.com/28727-byrd-didn-t-fly-over-north-pole.html Did Admiral Byrd Fly Over The North Pole Or Not? Thompson Andrea April 15, 2013 LiveScience Purch January 3, 2015 October 4, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191004121354/https://www.livescience.com/28727-byrd-didn-t-fly-over-north-pole.html live An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byrd-flies-over-the-north-pole May 9, 1926: Byrd flies over the North Pole? This Day in History February 9, 2010 A&E Television Networks January 3, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129023602/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byrd-flies-over-the-north-pole November 29, 2014 live May 10 – Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the United States Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. May 12 Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge. The United Kingdom general strike is called off by the trade unions, although miners remain on strike. May 12–14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski takes over in Poland. May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach. She reappears nearly a month later claiming to have been kidnapped. May 20 – The United States Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.The Origins of the FAA and the First “AGC-1” https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/history/people/First_AGC1.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250401092704/https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/history/people/First_AGC1.pdf April 1, 2025 2025-09-16 www.faa.gov live May 23 – The first Lebanese constitution is established. May 26 – The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco. May 28 – The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo. June June 1926 June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland. June 7 – Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler as Prime Minister of Sweden. June 12 – Lithuanian Radio launches its service from Kauno radiofonas. June 19 – King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw. June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair. July July 1926 July 1 – The Kuomintang begins the Northern Expedition, a military unification campaign in northern China. July 3 – A Caudron C.61 aircraft, operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne, crashes in Czechoslovakia. July 9 – In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military coup. July 10 – A bolt of lightning strikes Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days. July 15 – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses. July 26 – The United States National Bar Association is incorporated. August August 1926 August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War from August 3. August 2 – The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded. Pervan Ralph Essays on Western Australian politics University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations Nedlands Australia 1979 9780855641498 5 August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system is experienced by audiences for the first time, in the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore. Coe Brian The history of movie photography Ash & Grant London 1981 9780904069389 100 August 6 – American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England.Richard Severo https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/sports/gertrude-ederle-the-first-woman-to-swim-across-the-english-channel-dies-at-98.html Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel, Dies at 98 New York Times December 1, 2003 August 11, 2009 June 19, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190619133241/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/sports/gertrude-ederle-the-first-woman-to-swim-across-the-english-channel-dies-at-98.html live August 18 – In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C. August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos. August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship has ended in Greece, and he is now the president. September September 1926 September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with Charles Debbas as its president. Volk Lucia Memorials and martyrs in modern Lebanon Indiana University Press Bloomington 2010 9780253004925 55 September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations. September 9 – Yleisradio (YLE), the Finnish national public broadcasting company, begins its broadcasts.Toimintakertomus OY Suomen Yleisradio Toiminnasta 1926 1926 Yle, Finnish Broadcasting Company https://yle.fi/aihe/yleisradio/vuosikertomukset 4 April 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260312011855/https://yle.fi/aihe/yleisradio/vuosikertomukset 12 March 2026 fi PDF live Activity report of Oy Suomen Yleisradio operations 1926 September 11 – In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt. Grand Alexander Italian fascism : its origins & development University of Nebraska Press Lincoln London 2000 9780803266223 55 September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are ratified in Geneva, and come into effect. September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day). September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan. http://origin-www.acmilan.com/en/club/sites/san-siro San Siro 2016 AC Milan February 24, 2019 February 25, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190225102948/http://origin-www.acmilan.com/en/club/sites/san-siro dead September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone, at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm. Mercer Derrik 1989 Chronicle of the 20th Century London, UK Chronicle Communications Ltd. 346 978-0-582-03919-3 Russo Gus 2001 The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America New York Bloomsbury 35 978-1-59691-897-9 September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed. September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world. September 25 The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery. William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election. Henry Ford announces the 8-hour, 5-day work week. October October 1926 October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland. October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike. October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear. October 16 An ammunition explosion on troopship Kuang Yuang near Jiujiang, China, kills 1,200. 17 October 1926 1,200 Killed as Shells Explode on Burning Ship Chicago Daily Tribune 20 Háry János, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály is premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest.Bónis, Ferenc:Zoltan Kodály's Háry János Suite: Introduction to the new Score by Universal Edition (review, in Hungarian) 4 March 2016 October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London. October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba. October 23 Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office. The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed. October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that has developed after his appendix ruptured. November November 1926 November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds. November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. November 15 The NBC Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA). The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent. November 24 The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm. Sri Aurobindo withdraws into seclusion following a spiritual realisation, entrusting the supervision of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram to "The Mother".Aurobindo Sri Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest Sri Aurobindo Ashram 2006 103, 530 November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy. November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are arrested. November 27 – The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. December December 1926 thumbnail|180px|right|December 25: Emperor Hirohito December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the state of emergency that had been declared due to the miners' strike. December 3 – English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a Harrogate hotel. December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), is founded by Patrick Abercrombie to limit urban sprawl and ribbon development. December 13 – Miina Sillanpää becomes Finland's first female government minister. December 17 – 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumes power. December 23 – Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing civil war. American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in Puerto Cabezas and at the mouth of the Rio Grande to protect American and foreign lives and property. http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/western-hemisphere-region/nicaragua-1909-present Nicaragua (1909-present) University of Central Arkansas January 3, 2015 January 3, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150103052203/http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/western-hemisphere-region/nicaragua-1909-present/ dead December 24, 1926 U.S. Troops Take 2 Nicaraguan Ports Chicago Daily Tribune 1 December 26 In the history of Japan, the Shōwa period begins from this day, due to the death of Emperor Taishō on the day before. His son Hirohito will reign as Emperor of Japan until 1989.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōwa". p2QnPijAEmEC Japan Encyclopedia, p. 888 888. World première of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola by Walter Damrosch and the New York Philharmonic, the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.List of Sibelius' Works of the 1920s http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm 2009-04-18 August 15, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220815004023/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm dead Date unknown Muthulakshmi Reddi becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Legislative Council. Stephen H. Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE). Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized. 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Glaser thumb|100px|John Coltrane thumb|100px|Julie London September 1 Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018) Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017) September 2 – Ibrahim Nasir, Maldivian president (d. 2008) September 3 Uttam Kumar, Bengali actor (d. 1980) Alison Lurie, American author and academic (d. 2020) September 4 Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon (d. 2006) Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 2002) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Illich Ivan Illich Encyclopaedia Britannica June 1, 2019 April 4, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190404192006/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Illich live September 5 Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2017) Carmen Petra Basacopol, Romanian composer, pianist and musicologist (d. 2023) September 6 – Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002) September 7 – Ivone Ramos, Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018) September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (d. 2012)https://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00022414.htm Sergio Pininfarina Senato della Repubblica it November 28, 2021 November 29, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211129140417/https://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00022414.htm live September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian (d. 2022) September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen, South African government minister (d. 2009) September 13 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2022) September 14 Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d. 2014) Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (d. 2017) John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d. 2015) September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician September 17 Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader (d. 1965) Andrea Kékesy, Hungarian figure skater (d. 2024) September 19 Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (d. 2020)https://archive.org/details/EnciclopediaIdentitatiiRomanesti.Personalitati/page/n59/mode/2up?view=theater Enciclopedia Identității Românești Ecaterina Țarălungă Litera 60 2011 ro 978-606-600-246-2 Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020) James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d. 2020) September 21 Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000) September 23 Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (d. 2017) John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967) Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgish wrestler (d. 2017) September 25 – John Ericson, German-American actor (d. 2020) September 26 Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2018) Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000) September 28 Bonnie Leman, American art historian, writer, and publisher of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (d. 2010)Culver Virginia 2010-09-17 Bonnie Leman dies; her quilting publication revived interest in the craft https://www.denverpost.com/2010/09/17/bonnie-leman-dies-her-quilting-publication-revived-interest-in-the-craft/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20250124042912/https://www.denverpost.com/2010/09/17/bonnie-leman-dies-her-quilting-publication-revived-interest-in-the-craft/ 2025-01-24 2025-06-30 The Denver Post en-US Ozzie Van Brabant, Canadian baseball player (d. 2018) September 30 – Frank O'Neill, Australian swimmer (d. 2024) October thumb|100px|Thích Nhất Hạnh thumb|100px|Julie Adams thumb|100px|Chuck Berry thumb|100px|Jimmy Heath thumb|100px|Necmettin Erbakan October 2 Jan Morris, born James Morris, British travel writer (d. 2020)Lea Richard Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94 live The Guardian 20 November 2020 20 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201120160325/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94 20 November 2020 John Ross, Austrian-born American chemist (d. 2017) October 4 – Phar Lap, New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. 1932) October 7 Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015) Opal Lee, American activist October 8 – Carmencita Lara, Peruvian singer (d. 2018) October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955) October 11 Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist Ford James Ishmael James Ishmael Ford Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen 90 2006 Wisdom Publications 0-86171-509-8 https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/90 Taylor Philip Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam https://books.google.com/books?id=mtU4H21wdFoC&pg=PA299 October 9, 2018 2007 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 9789812304407 299 (d. 2022) Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar (d. 2017) Shin Sang-ok, South Korean film producer and director (d. 2006) October 12 – César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (d. 2019) October 13 Jesse L. Brown, first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. 1950) Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter, part of the Painters Eleven (d. 2002) October 15 Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984) Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000) Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981) October 16 – Charles Dolan, American billionaire (d. 2024) October 17 Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019) Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008) October 18 Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017) Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991) John Morris, American composer (d. 2018)Burlingame Jon 2018-01-28 John Morris, 'Blazing Saddles' and 'Young Frankenstein' Composer, Dies at 91 https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/ 2026-06-04 Variety en-US June 4, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260604093438/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/ live October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2021) October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017) October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018) October 25 María Concepción César, Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. 2018) Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2020) Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012) October 27 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943) https://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr/compagnons/henri-fertet Henri Fertet Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération fr 2019-12-01 March 5, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260305141501/https://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr/compagnons/henri-fertet live October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007) October 29 Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011) Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 2015) October 30 – Richard Hu – Singaporean politician, Minister for Finance (d. 2023) October 31 – Jimmy Savile, English media personality and registered sex offender (d. 2011) November thumb|100px|Valdas Adamkus thumb|100px|Jeffrey Hunter thumb|100px|Beji Caid Essebsi November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015) November 2 Myer Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019) Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008) November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania November 4 – Laurence Rosenthal, American composer November 5 John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017) Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017) November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010) November 8 Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2018) Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist (d. 2025) Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017) November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower (d. 2021) November 11 Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016) Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1993) José Manuel Caballero, Spanish poet and novelist (d. 2021) November 15 – Helmut Fischer, German actor (d. 1997) November 16 – Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (d. 1996) November 17 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan lawyer (d. 2017) November 19 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006) November 20 Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (d. 2018)Lentz, Harris M Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2018 McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers 2019 9781476636559 71 Judith Magre, French actress November 23 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2011) Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (d. 2017) November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024) November 25 Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969) Poul Anderson, American science fiction author (d. 2001) November 28 – Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016) November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian politician, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2019) November 30 Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003) Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018) Andrew Schally, Polish-born American endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2024) December 100px|thumb|Raif Dizdarević December 1 Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018) Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivorHolocaust Survivors and Victims Database -- Kitty Hart-Moxon https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5005984 2023-04-05 www.ushmm.org December 27, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241227193119/https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5005984 live Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (d. 2017) December 5 – Adetoun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator December 9 Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician (d. 2026) Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (d. 1972)https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html Lorenzo Wright Bio, Stats, and Results Olympics at Sports-Reference.com April 18, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105919/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html April 18, 2020 December 10 Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959) Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017) December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete (d. 2024) December 14 – María Elena Marqués, Mexican actress (d. 2008) December 15 Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017) Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal December 16 – A. 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Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014) December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014) December 20 Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015) Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009) David Levine, American caricaturist (d. 2009) December 21 – Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012) December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015) December 23 Jorge Medina, Chilean cardinal (d. 2021) Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014) December 24 – Maria Janion, Polish scholar, critic and politician (d. 2020) December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014) December 29 – Amelita Ramos, First Lady of the Philippines December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987) Deaths January–March thumb|right|100px|Camillo Golgi thumb|100px|Kato Takaaki thumb|100px|Theodosius of Skopje thumb|100px|Jan Cieplak 100px|right|thumb|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851) January 6 – John Bowers, British Anglican bishop (b. 1854) January 12 – Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864) January 15 Giambattista De Curtis, Italian painter (b. 1860) Louis Majorelle, French furniture designer (b. 1859) Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883) January 21 Marie C. Brehm, American suffragette (b. 1859) Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843) January 23 – Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Belgian Catholic cardinal and philosopher (b. 1851) January 26 Bucura Dumbravă, Hungarian-born Romanian novelist, promoter, hiker and Theosophist (b. 1868) Joseph Sarsfield Glass, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1874) January 28 Katō Takaaki, Japanese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1860) Sir Ernest Troubridge, British admiral (b. 1862) January 30 – Barbara La Marr, American film actress (b. 1896) February 1 – Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria Orthodox religious leader and saint (b. 1846) February 5 – Gustav Eberlein, German sculptor, painter and writer (b. 1847) February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward, American stage and film character actress (b. 1862) February 8 – William Bateson, British geneticist (b. 1861) February 10 – Aqif Pasha Elbasani, Albanian political figure (b. 1860) February 12 – Art Smith, American pilot (b. 1890) February 13 – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist (b. 1845) February 14 – John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830) February 17 – Jan Cieplak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop and servant of God (b. 1857) February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) February 24 – Eddie Plank, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875) February 27 – Bronislav Grombchevsky, Soviet army and explorer (b. 1855) March 2 – Patriarch Macarius II (b. 1835) March 3 – Eugenia Mantelli, Italian opera singer (b. 1860) March 11 – Maibelle Heikes Justice, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1871) March 12 – E. W. Scripps, American newspaper publisher (b. 1854) March 16 – Sergeant Stubby, World War I American hero war dog (b. 1916) March 17 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853) March 19 – Friedrich Brodersen, German opera singer (b. 1873) March 20 Krishna Govinda Gupta, Indian statesman, member of Indian Civil Service (b. 1851) Louise of Sweden, Queen consort of Denmark (b. 1851) March 24 – Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1860) March 26 – Constantin Fehrenbach, German politician and 13th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852) March 28 – Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, claimant to the French throne (b. 1869) March 29 – Charles Williamson Crook, British teacher, trade unionist and politician (b. 1862) March 30 – Melvin Edwards, American abstract sculptor, printmaker, and arts educator (b. 1937)Greenberger Alex Melvin Edwards, Sculptor Whose Steel Assemblages Influenced Generations of Artists, Dies at 88 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/melvin-edwards-sculptor-dead-1234779467/ ARTnews September 13, 2026 March 31, 2026 March 31 – Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855) April–June thumb|100px|Emperor Sunjong thumb|100px|Sultan Mehmed VI thumb|100px|Antoni Gaudí thumb|100px|Mary Cassatt thumb|100px|Jón Magnússon April 4 – Thomas Burberry, English businessman and inventor (b. 1835) April 7 – Giovanni Amendola, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1882) April 9 – Henry Miller, British-born American stage actor and producer (b. 1859) April 10 – Ōshima Yoshimasa, Japanese general (b. 1850) April 11 – Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist and agricultural scientist (b. 1849) April 14 – Otto Stark, American painter (b. 1859) April 17 – Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1839) April 19 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Soviet statistician (b. 1874) April 20 – Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873) April 22 – Federico Gana, Chilean writer and diplomat (b. 1867) April 25 Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea (b. 1874) Ellen Key, Swedish feminist writer (b. 1849) Jeffreys Lewis, English-born stage actress (b. 1852) April 28 – Kawamura Kageaki, Japanese field marshal (b. 1850) April 30 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (b. 1892) May 3 – Victor, Prince Napoleon (b. 1862) May 7 – Lillian Lawrence, American actress (b. 1868) May 9 – J. M. Dent, British publisher (b. 1849) May 10 Alton B. Parker, American judge and political candidate (b. 1852) Giacinto Menotti Serrati, Italian politician (b. 1874) May 16 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861) May 18 – Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin (b. 1857) May 22 – Tomás Arejola, Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat and writer (b. 1865) May 25 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879) May 26 – Frank Nelson Cole, American mathematician (b. 1861) May 27 – Michele Comella, Italian painter (b. 1856) June 4 – Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853) June 8 Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner (b. 1860) Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Indian Catholic professed religious and stigmatist (b. 1876) June 9 – Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844) June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (b. 1852) Juan Bassegoda El gran Gaudí 978-84-86329-44-0 es Sabadell Barcelona 1989 263 June 13 – Nikolay Chkheidze, Soviet politician (b. 1864) June 14 Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker (b. 1844) Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Anglo-Irish politician (b. 1841) June 18 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of Greece (b. 1851) June 23 – Jón Magnússon, Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1857) July–September thumb|right|100px|Mother Mary Alphonsa thumb|right|100px|King Ugyen Wangchuck thumb|right|100px|Rudolph Valentino thumb|100px|José María Orellana July 1 – Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858) July 2 Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857) Kristján Jónsson, Minister for Iceland (b. 1852) July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851) July 12 Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868) John W. Weeks, American politician in the Republican Party (b. 1860) July 14 – Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894) July 17 – Bernard Coyne, Irish Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1854) July 18 – Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1865) July 22 Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882) Friedrich von Wieser, Austrian economist (b. 1851) July 23 Charles Avery, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1873) Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist and nihilist (b. 1903) July 26 Ella Adayevskaya, Soviet composer (b. 1846) Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, Haitian political figure, 25th President of Haiti (b. 1863) Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843) July 30 – Albert B. Cummins, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850) August 1 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright (b. 1864) August 6 – Constantin Climescu, Romanian mathematician and politician (b. 1844) August 14 – John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843) August 22 Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834) Joe Moore, American actor (b. 1894) August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895) August 26 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861) August 27 – John Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881) August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886) September 15 Alexander Boyter, American stonemason (b. 1848) Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846) September 17 – Rashid Tali’a, 1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. 1877) September 21 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857) September 25 – Herbert Booth, English Salvationist, third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862) September 26 – José María Orellana, Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of Guatemala (b. 1872) October–December 100px|thumbnail|right|Harry Houdini 100px|thumb|Annie Oakley thumb|right|100px|Claude Monet thumb|right|100px|Nikola Pašić thumb|right|100px|Emperor Taishō October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856) October 9 Vaso Abashidze, Georgian actor (b. 1854) Josias von Heeringen, German general (b. 1850) Evald Relander, Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (b. 1856)http://www.kurkijoki.fi/hautmaat/keski_h-m/foto/K030_relander_evald.html Relander, Evald Kristian kurkijoki.fi 9 June 2025 fi July 8, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250708225745/http://www.kurkijoki.fi/hautmaat/keski_h-m/foto/K030_relander_evald.html live October 11 Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b. 1898) October 12 Edwin Abbott Abbott, English author and theologian (b. 1838) Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1856) October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848) October 18 – José Maria Mora Cuban born portrait photographer (b. 1847) October 19 Victor Babeș, Romanian bacteriologist (b. 1854) Ludvig Karsten, German painter (b. 1876) October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855) October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann, Czech-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854) October 31 Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American escapologist (b. 1874) Goldenberg Suzanne https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/24/usa.suzannegoldenberg1 Final Escape for the Master of Illusion? Houdini's Family Press for Exhumation The Guardian March 24, 2007 November 9, 2015 June 14, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230614114927/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/24/usa.suzannegoldenberg1 live Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853) November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860) Kasper Shirl Annie Oakley University of Oklahoma Press 1992 0-8061-2418-0 243–244 https://books.google.com/books?id=g1CqL48DUo0C&pg=PA3 Haugen B. 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