page_title: 1926
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1926 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Agostino Cacciavillan
context_page_description: 1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: August 1 – Meg Randall, American actress (d. 2018)
  August 2
  Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
  George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008)
  W. Carter Merbreier, American television host (Captain Noah) (d. 2016)
  Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur
  Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. 1975)
  August 3
  Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. 2013)
  Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2015)
  Tony Bennett, American singer
  Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer
  August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
  August 6
  Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
  János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
  Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
  Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
  Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
  August 7
  John Otho Marsh Jr., American politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Army (d. 2019)
  Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
  Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (d. 2019)
  August 8
  Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
  Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
  Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
  August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
  August 10
  Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)
  Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)
  Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
  August 11
  Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
  Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
  Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019)
  John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
  August 12
  John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
  Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
  Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
  Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
  René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
  August 13
  Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
  Roy Heath, Guyanese writer (d. 2008)
  Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018)
  Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
  August 14
  Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
  Agostino Cacciavillan, Italian cardinal
  René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
  Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
  August 15
  Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
  Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist
  Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
  Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author
  Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
  August 16
  Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
  Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
  Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (d. 2019)
  August 17
  Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
  Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China
  August 18
  Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011)
  Franca Marzi, Italian film actress (d. 1989)
  August 19 – Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006)
  August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
  August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal
  August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist
  August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
  August 29
  Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
  Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
  Betty Lynn, American actress
caption: Agostino Cacciavillan
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