List of Famous people who died in 1926

Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon

First Name Thomas
Last Name Brandon
Born on May 31, 1849
Died on December 24, 1926 (aged 77)

Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner, who helped to found the anti-partition Irish Dominion League and was a key figure in the development of Irish cooperative agriculture.

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Ferdynand Radziwiłł

First Name Ferdynand
Born on October 19, 1834
Died on February 28, 1926 (aged 91)
Born in Germany

Ferdynand Fryderyk Radziwiłł was a Polish nobleman and Polish-German politician.

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Karl von Weizsäcker

First Name Karl
Last Name Weizsäcker
Born on February 25, 1853
Died on February 2, 1926 (aged 72)

Karl Hugo Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg, and a member of the prominent Weizsäcker family.

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Albert Bitter

First Name Albert
Last Name Bitter
Born on August 15, 1848
Died on December 19, 1926 (aged 78)
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Trevor Spring

First Name Trevor
Last Name Spring
Born on March 6, 1882
Died on March 13, 1926 (aged 44)
Born in India

Major Trevor Coleridge Spring was an English cricketer and British Army officer. A right-handed batsman, he played first-class cricket for Somerset and the Army between 1909 and 1919. He also played minor counties cricket for Devon.

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Julius Epstein

First Name Julius
Last Name Epstein
Born on August 7, 1832
Died on March 3, 1926 (aged 93)
Born in Croatia

Julius Epstein was a Croatian Jewish pianist.

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Walter Herries Pollock

First Name Walter
Last Name Pollock
Born on February 21, 1850
Died on February 21, 1926 (aged 76)

Walter Herries Pollock was an English writer, poet, lecturer and journalist. He is best known as editor of the Saturday Review, a position he held from 1884 to 1894, but also had published various miscellaneous writings that included novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translated works between 1877 and 1920. He was also, at one time, considered one of the best amateur fencers in Great Britain.

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William Lindsay

First Name William
Last Name Lindsay
Born on June 8, 1846
Died on September 13, 1926 (aged 80)

William Alexander Lindsay, was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Lindsay was the son of Hon. Colin Lindsay son of James 7th Earl of Balcarres, 24th Earl of Crawford and Lady Frances Howard, daughter of the Earl of Wicklow. On 7 May 1870, he married Lady Harriet Hamilton-Gordon, a daughter of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen and Mary Baillie. His heraldic career began in 1882 when he was appointed Portcullis Pursuivant in Ordinary at the College of Arms. He was promoted to the office of Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary in 1894. In 1919, he was promoted Norroy King of Arms after Charles Athill was promoted to Clarenceux King of Arms. Three years later, Lindsay followed Athill to the role of Clarenceux on Athill's death. Lindsay held the office from 1922 until his own death in 1926.

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Ernst Lecher

First Name Ernst
Last Name Lecher
Born on June 1, 1856
Died on July 19, 1926 (aged 70)
Born in Austria

Ernst Lecher was an Austrian physicist who, from 1909, was head of the First Institute of Physics in Vienna. He is remembered for developing an apparatus— "Lecher lines"—to measure the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. He gave his name to the Ernst-Lecher-Institut, a radar research establishment set up in the 1940s in Reichenau, south of Vienna, which is now a part of the German research institute Max Planck Institute.

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William Parry-Okeden

First Name William
Last Name Parry-Okeden
Born on May 13, 1840
Died on August 30, 1926 (aged 86)

William Edward Parry-Okeden was a public servant, Police Commissioner and Protector of Aborigines (1895-1903), as well as a horseman, in Queensland, Australia.

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