List of Famous people who died in 1926

Margherita of Savoy was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy by marriage to Umberto I.

Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya was a Russian-German composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist.

Jenő Károly was a Hungarian footballer and later manager born in Budapest. Outside his homeland he is particularly noted for being the first manager of Agnelli-era Juventus.

Charles Angrand was a French artist who gained renown for his Neo-Impressionist paintings and drawings. He was an important member of the Parisian avant-garde art scene in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent American research university. Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history.

Carl Arnold Ruge was a German pathologist who was a native of Berlin. He is credited for contributions made in the early detection of uterine cancer. Ruge was a nephew of pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902).

Major-General Sir William Julius Gascoigne was a British Army officer and served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1895 to 1898.

Fritz Schade was a German-born American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 41 films between 1913 and 1918, including six films with Charlie Chaplin. His wife was the silent film actress Betty Schade.