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(''' MCMXXVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will take you to calendar).
- January 3 - George Martin , English producer of The Beatles
- January 8 - Evelyn Lear , American soprano
- January 8 - Hanae Mori , Japanese fashion designer
- January 8 - Soupy Sales , American comedian
- January 11 - Lev Demin , cosmonaut (d. 1998 )
- January 12 - Ray Price , American singer
- January 14 - Maria Schell , Austrian actress (d. 2005 )
- January 14 - Tom Tryon , American actor and novelist (d. 1991 )
- January 17 - Moira Shearer , Scottish actress and dancer
- January 19 - Fritz Weaver , American actor
- January 20 - Patricia Neal , American actress
- January 20 - David Tudor , American pianist and composer (d. 1996 )
- January 21 - Steve Reeves , American actor (d. 2000 )
- January 27 - Fritz Spiegl , Austrian journalist (d. 2003 )
- January 29 - Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- February 2 - Valéry Giscard D'Estaing , President Of France
- February 6 - Haskell Wexler , American cinematographer
- February 7 - Konstantin Feoktistov , cosmonaut
- February 8 - Neal Cassady , American writer (d. 1968 )
- February 8 - Audrey Meadows , American actress (d. 1996 )
- February 10 - Danny Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993 )
- February 11 - Paul Bocuse , French chef
- February 11 - Alexander Gibson , British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera
- February 11 - Leslie Nielsen , Canadian actor
- February 12 - Paul Kurtz , American philosopher
- February 16 - John Schlesinger , British film director (d. 2003 )
- February 20 - Richard Matheson , American author
- February 20 - Bob Richards , American track and field athlete
- February 22 - Kenneth Williams , English actor (d. 1988 )
- February 27 - David H. Hubel , Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- February 28 - Svetlana Alliluyeva , Russian author
- March 1 - Pete Rozelle , American commissioner of the National Football League (d. 1996 )
- March 2 - Murray Rothbard , American economist (d. 1995 )
- March 3 - James Merrill , American poet (d. 1995 )
- March 4 - Fran Warren , American popular singer
- March 6 - Alan Greenspan , American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- March 6 - Andrzej Wajda , Polish film director
- March 8 - Sultan Salahuddin (d. 2001 )
- March 13 - Carlos Roberto Reina , President Of Honduras (d. 2003 )
- March 15 - Norm Van Brocklin , American football player (d. 1983 )
- March 16 - Jerry Lewis , American comedian
- March 16 - Charles Goodell , American politician (d. 1987 )
- March 17 - Siegfried Lenz , German writer
- March 18 - Peter Graves , American actor
- March 21 - Edna Ardelle Utz , American Intellectual
- March 24 - Dario Fo , Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 26 - László Papp , Hungarian boxer (d. 2003 )
- March 30 - Ingvar Kamprad , Swedish businessman
- March 31 - John Fowles , English writer (d. 2005 )
- April 1 - Charles Bressler , American tenor
- April 1 - Anne McCaffrey , American author
- April 2 - Jack Brabham , Australian race car driver
- April 3 - Gus Grissom , astronaut (d. 1967 )
- April 6 - Sergio Franchi , Italian tenor and actor (d. 1990 )
- April 6 - Gil Kane , Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000 )
- April 6 - Ian Paisley , Northern Irish politician
- April 7 - Dame Joan Sutherland , Australian soprano
- April 9 - Hugh Hefner , American magazine editor
- April 17 - Gerry McNeil , Canadian hockey player (d. 2004 )
- April 21 - Queen Elizabeth II Of The United Kingdom
- April 22 - James Stirling , Scottish architect (d. 1992 )
- April 24 - Thorbjörn Fälldin , Prime Minister Of Sweden
- April 26 - Michael Mathias Prechtl , German illustrator (d. 2003 )
- April 30 - Cloris Leachman , American actress
- April 30 - Edmund Cooper , British Author & Poet
- June 1 - Andy Griffith , American actor
- June 1 - Marilyn Monroe , American actress (d. 1962 )
- June 3 - Allen Ginsberg , American poet (d. 1997 )
- June 6 - Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor (d. 1998 )
- June 11 - Frank Plicka , Czech-born photographer
- June 16 - William F. Roemer, Jr. , FBI agent (d. 1996 )
- June 21 - Conrad Hall , Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003 )
- June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian writer (d. 1973 )
- June 28 - Mel Brooks , American entertainer
- June 29 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir Of Kuwait (d. 2006 )
- June 30 - Paul Berg , American chemist, Noble Prize laureate
- July 1 - Robert Fogel , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 1 - Hans Werner Henze , German composer
- July 4 - Alfredo Di Stefano , Argentine-born footballer
- July 8 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004 )
- July 9 - Ben Roy Mottelson , American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 15 - Leopoldo Galtieri , Argentine dictator (d. 2003 )
- July 16 - Stanley Clements , American actor (d. 1981 )
- July 16 - Irwin Rose , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry
- July 28 - Walt Brown , American Presidential candidate
- July 30 - Sir Patrick Russell QC , PC , British High Court Judge
- September 7 - Don Messick , American voice actor (d. 1997 )
- September 14 - Dick Dale , American singer and musician, '' The Lawrence Welk Show ''
- September 15 - Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician
- September 16 - John Knowles , American author (d. 2001 )
- September 21 - Donald A. Glaser , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 21 - Noor Jehan , Pakistani and Indian singer/actress (d. 2000 ) (she could have been born in 1929 )
- September 23 - John Coltrane , American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967 )
- September 26 - Masatoshi Koshiba , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 2 - Tsung-Dao Lee , Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 3 - Valdas Adamkus , President Of Lithuania
- November 6 - Frank Carson , Northern Irish comedian
- November 20 - Andrzej W. Schally , Polish-born endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- November 23 - Sathya Sai Baba , Indian guru
- November 23 - R.L. Burnside , American musician
- November 25 - Poul Anderson , American author (d. 2001 )
- November 30 - Richard Crenna , American actor (d. 2003 )
- January 21 - Camillo Golgi , Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1843 )
- February 21 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853 )
- March 5 - Clément Ader , French engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (b. 1841 )
- March 26 - Konstantin Fehrenbach , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1852 )
- April 30 - Bessie Coleman , American pilot (b. 1892 )
- May 16 - Mehmed VI , last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861 )
- May 26 - Simon Petlyura , Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879 )
- June 10 - Antoni Gaudí , Catalan architect (b. 1852 )
- June 14 - Mary Cassatt , American artist (b. 1844 )
- July 12 - Gertrude Bell , English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868 )
- July 26 - Robert Todd Lincoln , American statesman and businessman (b. 1843 )
- August 22 - Charles W. Eliot , President Of Harvard University (b. 1834 )
- August 23 - Rodolfo Valentino , Italian actor (b. 1895 )
- September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846 )
- September 21 - Leon Charles Thevenin , French telegraph engineer (b. 1857 )
- September 25 - Herbert Booth , the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862 )
- October 20 - Eugene V. Debs , American labor and political leader (b. 1855 )
- October 31 - Harry Houdini , Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874 )
- October 31 - Charles Vance Millar , Canadian businessman (b. 1853 )
- December 4 - Ivana Kobilca , Slovenian painter (b. 1861 )
- December 5 - Claude Monet , French painter (b. 1840 )
- December 25 - Emperor Taisho , 123rd Emperor Of Japan (b. 1879 )
- December 29 - Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet (b. 1875 )
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