List of Famous people who died in 1926
Jan Kasprowicz
Jan Kasprowicz was a poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland.
René Boylesve
René Boylesve, born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau, was a French writer and a literary critic.
Washington Roebling
Washington Augustus Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for supervising the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was initially designed by his father John A. Roebling. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as an officer and was present at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Charles Montagu Doughty
Charles Montagu Doughty was an English poet, writer, explorer, adventurer and traveller born in Theberton Hall near Saxmundham, Suffolk and educated at private schools in Laleham and Elstree, and at a school for the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. He was a student at King's College London, eventually graduating from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1864.
Giovanni Cagliero
Giovanni Cagliero SDB was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked as a missionary in South America and served as Apostolic Delegate to Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua from 1908 to 1915 when he was elevated to the rank of cardinal.
Eugeniusz Zak
Eugeniusz Zak, also known as Eugène Zak and Eugene Zak, was a Polish artist.
Solomon Breuer
Solomon Breuer was a Hungarian-born German rabbi, initially in Pápa, Hungary, and from the early 1890s in Frankfurt as a successor of his father-in-law Samson Raphael Hirsch.
Franz S. Exner
Franz Serafin Exner was an Austrian physicist.
Karl Harrer
Karl Harrer was a German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in January 1919, the predecessor to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, more commonly known as the Nazi Party.
Nobushige Hozumi
Baron Hozumi Nobushige was a Japanese statesman and jurist of the Meiji period.