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The list 1926 deaths includes Rudolph Valentino, Barbara La Marr, Harry Houdini, Claude Monet and Isabella May. The list consists of 2,821 members and 3 sublists.

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1926
Calendar year
  • 1.

    Rudolph Valentino
    Italian actor (1895–1926)
    Rudolph Valentino
    Overview: Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian actor based in the United States ...
    Date of birth: 6 May 1895
    Date of death: 23 August 1926
    Age: 31 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
    Partner: Nita Naldi (Dating)
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    Hollywood Walk of Fame 370T
    People from Bayside, Queens 81T
    Italian male silent film actors 98T
  • 2.

    Barbara La Marr
    American actress (1896–1926)
    Barbara La Marr
    Overview: Barbara La Marr (born Reatha Dale Watson; July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926 ...
    Date of birth: 28 July 1896
    Date of death: 30 January 1926
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Tuberculosis deaths in California 41T
    20th-century American screenwriters 1,971T
    Screenwriters from Washington (state) 56T
  • 3.

    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-American escapologist and stuntperson
    Harry Houdini
    Overview: Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known professionaly as Harry Houdini (hoo-DEE-nee), was a Hungarian-American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts.
    Date of birth: 24 March 1874
    Date of death: 31 October 1926
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Magician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Critics of Spiritualism 34T
    Artists from Budapest 112T
    People from Morningside Heights, Manhattan 18T
  • 4.

    Claude Monet
    Painter
    Claude Monet
    Overview: Oscar-Claude Monet (, , 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy ...
    Date of birth: 14 November 1840
    Date of death: 6 December 1926
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)
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    20th-century male artists 3,569T
    French male painters 1,874T
    People with cataracts 34T
  • 5.

    Isabella May
    Temperance worker, suffragist, dress reformer
    Overview: Isabella May (née Malcolm, 22 June 1850 – 1 May 1926) was a New Zealand temperance worker, suffragist and dress reformer. She was born in Hoxton, London, England, on 22 June 1850, and was the younger ...
    Date of birth: 22 June 1850
    Date of death: 1 May 1926
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    19th-century New Zealand people 176T
    English emigrants to New Zealand 1,005T
    New Zealand suffragists 42T
  • 6.

    Yun Sim-deok
    Korean singer-actor
    Yun Sim-deok
    Overview: Yun Sim-deok (Korean: 윤심덕; Hanja: 尹心悳; 25 July 1897 – 4 August 1926) was a Korean singer. She was the country's first professional soprano.
    Date of birth: 25 July 1897
    Date of death: 4 August 1926
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: North Korean
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    1926 suicides 28T
    20th-century women singers 3,624T
    Korean actresses who committed suicide 1T
  • 7.

    Bessie Coleman
    American aviator (1892–1926)
    Bessie Coleman
    Overview: Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman, and also the first Native-American, to hold a pilot license. She ...
    Date of birth: 26 January 1892
    Date of death: 30 April 1926
    Age: 34 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Aviator
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    Barnstormers 19T
    Wing walkers 9T
    20th-century Native American women 470T
  • 8.

    Rainer Maria Rilke
    Austrian poet and novelist
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    Overview: René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most ...
    Date of birth: 4 December 1875
    Date of death: 29 December 1926
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    19th-century Austrian male writers 45T
    20th-century Austrian poets 50T
    Austrian male poets 85T
  • 9.

    Annie Oakley
    American exhibition sharpshooter (1860–1926)
    Annie Oakley
    Overview: Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
    Date of birth: 13 August 1860
    Date of death: 3 November 1926
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Stunts
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' (152 cm)
     0    0
    Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees 110T
    19th-century American women 232T
    Tall tales 39T
  • 10.

    Warren Wood
    Amateur golfer
    Warren Wood
    Overview: Warren Kenneth Wood (April 27, 1887 – October 27, 1926) was an American amateur golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
    Date of birth: 27 April 1887
    Date of death: 27 October 1926
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Golf
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Olympic gold medalists for the United States in golf 12T
    Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics 336T
    Olympic medalists in golf 42T
  • 11.

    Aleksei Brusilov
    Russian general
    Aleksei Brusilov
    Overview: Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов, romanisation ru ⇒ en: Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov; 1 September [O.S. 19 August] 1853 – 17 March 1926) was a Russian general ...
    Date of birth: 31 August 1853
    Date of death: 17 March 1926
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Military personnel from Tbilisi 49T
    People from Tiflis Governorate 76T
    Commanders-in-chief of the Russian Army 12T
  • 12.

    Robert Todd Lincoln
    American, Politician
    Robert Todd Lincoln
    Overview: Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. The first son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and the only son to live to ...
    Date of birth: 1 August 1843
    Date of death: 26 July 1926
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Deaths by intracerebral hemorrhage 425T
    Harvard College alumni 3,562T
    People associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 67T
  • 13.

    Gertrude Bell
    English writer, traveller, political officer, and archaeologist
    Gertrude Bell
    Overview: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential ...
    Date of birth: 14 July 1868
    Date of death: 12 July 1926
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    British women travel writers 106T
    Daughters of baronets 142T
    English Arabists 10T
  • 14.

    Felix Dzerzhinsky
    Soviet Statesman
    Felix Dzerzhinsky
    Overview: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński Russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bo ...
    Date of birth: 11 September 1877
    Date of death: 20 July 1926
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Cheka officers 35T
    People from Minsky Uyezd 34T
    Cheka chairmen 3T
  • 15.

    Antoni Gaudí
    Catalan architect
    Antoni Gaudí
    Overview: Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style. Most are ...
    Date of birth: 25 June 1852
    Date of death: 10 June 1926
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: Spanish
    Occupation: Architect
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Mosaicists 9T
    Antoni Gaudí 8T
    Vegetarians 377T
  • 16.

    Edmund Plant
    Australian politician
    Edmund Plant
    Overview: Edmund Harris Thornburgh Plant (10 December 1844 – 28 April 1926) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council from 1905 to 1922.
    Date of birth: 10 December 1844
    Date of death: 28 April 1926
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Politician
     0    0
    Members of the Queensland Legislative Council 197T
    1844 births 2,316T
  • 17.

    Joseph Barnett (fish Porter)
    English murder suspect
    Joseph Barnett (fish Porter)
    Overview: Joseph Barnett, also known by his nicknames Danny Barnett and “Joe”, was a fish cutter who worked at Billinsgate Market in the 19th-century, located in the East End of London, and later became known for ...
    Date of birth: 25 May 1858
    Date of death: 29 November 1926
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Building And Construction
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    People with speech impediment 47T
    Jack the Ripper 126T
    People from Whitechapel 116T
  • 18.

    Geneviève Halévy
    French salon holder
    Geneviève Halévy
    Overview: Geneviève Halévy, later Geneviève Bizet and Geneviève Straus (Paris, 26 February 1849 – 1926), was a French salonnière. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1849
    Date of death: 22 December 1926
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Personality
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    French salon-holders 99T
    French female salon-holders 50T
    1849 births 2,217T
  • 19.

    Lyubov Dostoyevskaya
    Russian writer
    Lyubov Dostoyevskaya
    Overview: Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoevskaya (Russian: Любо́вь Фёдоровна Достое́вская; 1869–1926), also known by the name Aimée Dostoyevskaya, was a Russian writer, memoirist, and the second daughter of famous writer ...
    Date of birth: 14 September 1869
    Date of death: 10 November 1926
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    Women memoirists 1,131T
    Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy 70T
    Women writers of the Russian Empire 48T
  • 20.

    Magda von Dolcke
    Danish actress (1838–1926)
    Magda von Dolcke
    Overview: Magda von Dolcke (28 February 1838 in Åbenrå, Denmark – 1926) was a Danish stage actress and the director of a travelling theatre company, active in Sweden. She is known for her relationship with King ...
    Date of birth: 28 February 1838
    Date of death: 22 October 1926
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: Danish
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
     0    0
    19th-century theatre managers 129T
    19th-century businesswomen 128T
    19th-century Danish businesspeople 132T
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