List of Famous people who died in 1926

Emmet Derby Boyle was an American politician. He was the 13th Governor of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Eugène Baud (1866–1926) was a Swiss rower and rowing official. He was the first permanent president of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA), the International Rowing Federation. He started for Lausanne RC and was later its president.

William Wright Heard was the 32nd Governor of Louisiana from 1900 to 1904. His governorship saw the start of the Louisiana's oil and gas industry.

Alton Brooks Parker was an American judge, best known as the Democrat who lost the presidential election of 1904 to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt in a landslide.

Helen Allingham was an English watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.

Albion Woodbury Small founded the first independent Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study.

Joseph Georges Gonzague Vézina was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association (NHA) and nine in the National Hockey League (NHL), all with the Montreal Canadiens. After being signed by the Canadiens in 1910, Vézina played in 327 consecutive regular season games and a further 39 playoff games, before leaving early during a game in 1925 due to illness. Vézina was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and died on March 27, 1926.

Hans von Koessler was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler.