List of Famous people who died in 1926

John Carpenter Garnier was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1873 to 1884.

George Patrick John Carew, 4th Baron Carew

Josias von Heeringen was a German general of the imperial era who saw service in the First World War.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium for the first time, in 1908. He also discovered superconductivity in 1911.

August Thyssen was a German industrialist.

Sir Charles George Walpole FRGS (1848-1926) was Chief Justice of the Bahamas.

Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini, was an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist.

Karel Václav Rais was a Czech realist novelist, author of the so-called country prose, numerous books for youth and children, and several poems.

Paul Cassirer was a German art dealer and editor who played a significant role in the promotion of the work of artists of the Berlin Secession and of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, in particular that of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a Prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.