List of Famous people who died in 1926

George William Lamplugh was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925. He was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1901.

Georg Friedrich Knapp was a German economist who in 1905 published The State Theory of Money, which founded the chartalist school of monetary theory, which argues that money's value derives from its issuance by an institutional form of government rather than spontaneously through relations of exchange.

André Gedalge was a French composer and teacher.

Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the First World War.

Kim Hyong-jik was a Korean independence activist during Japanese rule. He was the father of the North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, the paternal grandfather of Kim Jong-il, and a great-grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.

Mary Lorillard Barbey was a prominent American member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. She was a daughter of Pierre Lorillard III of the Lorillard Tobacco Company.

Sir Bradford Leslie KCIE (1831-1926) was an English civil engineer who specialised in bridges and was a pupil of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His most notable achievement was the 1887 Jubilee Bridge.

Dmitriy Andreyevich Furmanov was a Russian writer, revolutionary and military officer.

Charles William Sydney Pierrepont, 4th Earl Manvers, VD, known as Viscount Newark from 1860 to 1900, was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician.

Stephen Paget was an English surgeon and pro-vivisection campaigner. He proposed the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis, which claims the distribution of cancers are not coincidental. He was the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget.