Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 - 1931 - 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 5 - Alvin Ailey[?], choreographer
- January 5 - Alfred Brendel, pianist
- January 5 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
- January 6 - E.L. Doctorow, author
- January 8 - Bill Graham[?], rock music entrepreneut (+ 1991)
- January 10 - Viktor Liebermann[?], violinist (+ 1999)
- January 14 - Caterina Valente[?], singer, actress
- January 16 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany
- January 17 - James Earl Jones, actor
- January 19 - Tippi Hedren[?], actress
- January 19 - Robert MacNeil[?], journalist
- January 22 - Sam Cooke, singer (+ 1964)
- January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author (+ 2001)
- January 30 - Allan W. Eckert, historian, naturalist and author
- January 31 - Ernie Banks[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- February 1 - Boris Yeltsin, Russian president 1991-1999
- February 2 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
- February 6 - Rip Torn[?], actor, director
- February 8 - James Dean, actor (+ 1955)
- February 10 - Thomas Bernhard[?], author (+ 1989)
- February 11 - Larry Merchant[?], author/boxing commentator.
- February 18 - Toni Morrison, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1993
- February 18 - Bob St. Clair[?], American football star
- February 18 - Johnny Hart[?], cartoonist
- March 2 - Mikhail Gorbachev
- March 2 - Tom Wolfe, author
- March 11 - Rupert Murdoch, publisher, entrepreneur
- March 22 - William Shatner, (actor)
- March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
- April 1 - Rolf Hochhuth, writer
- April 29 - Frank Auerbach, painter
- April 29 - Lonnie Donegan, musician (+ 2002)
- May 6 - Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer
- May 7 - Teresa Brewer[?], singer
- May 13 - Jim Jones, cult leader (+ 1978)
- May 15 - Ken Venturi[?], golfer
- May 18 - Robert Morse[?], actor
- May 20 - Ken Boyer[?], baseball player (+ 1981)
- June 7 - Malcolm Morley, painter
- July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress
- August 12 - William Goldman, author
- September 23 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, educator, statesman
- November 21 - Malcolm Williamson, composer (+ 2003)
- December 24 - Mauricio Kagel, composer
Deaths:
- January 23 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina
- February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons[?], British inventor of the steam turbine
- March 11 - F.W. Murnau, director
- March 31 - Knute Rockne, American football coach
- April 10 - Khalil Gibran Lebanese poet and painter
- May 14 - David Belasco[?], writer
- August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter
- August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor,
- October 13 - Ernst Didring, swedish writer,
- October 18 - Thomas Edison, Inventor.
- Wilhelm von Gloeden, photographer.
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