List of Famous people who died in 1926

Jón Magnússon was an Icelandic politician, and was Prime Minister of Iceland on two occasions. He served his first term, as a member of the Home Rule Party (Heimastjórnarflokkurinn), from 4 January 1917 to 7 March 1922. He served his second term, as a member of the Conservative Party, from 22 March 1924 to 23 June 1926. He served as speaker of the Althing from 1913 to 1914.

The Mann family is a German dynasty of novelists and an old Hanseatic family of patricians from Lübeck. It is known for being the family of the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Thomas Mann.

Georgy Lvovich Catoire was a Russian composer of French heritage.

Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist known for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia between 1860 and 1868 under the tutelage of Cesare Lombroso. Inspired by pathologist Giulio Bizzozero, he pursued research in the nervous system. His discovery of a staining technique called black reaction in 1873 was a major breakthrough in neuroscience. Several structures and phenomena in anatomy and physiology are named for him, including the Golgi apparatus, the Golgi tendon organ and the Golgi tendon reflex.

George Wittet (1878-1926) was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in Mumbai, India.

Gottfried Lindauer was a Bohemian and New Zealand artist famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people.

Ettore Ximenes was an Italian sculptor.