List of Famous people who died in 1926

Alfred Guillou was a French painter of Breton heritage.

Émile Paladilhe was a French composer of the late romantic period.

Billy Quirk was an American stage and silent-film actor. He performed in at least 182 films between 1909 and 1924. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he died in Los Angeles, California. Gem Motion Picture Company produced a series of "Billy" titled pictured starring Quirk.

Jocelyn Brudenell Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester, OBE was a British nobleman.

Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston was an English footballer who played as a forward for Wanderers and England. He won the FA Cup five times with Wanderers, becoming the first player to do so. Wollaston was born in Felpham, Sussex and died in Westminster.

William Bateson was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. His 1894 book Materials for the Study of Variation was one of the earliest formulations of the new approach to genetics.

Diogène Ulysse Napoléon Maillart was a French painter, illustrator, designer, teacher and art critic.