List of Famous people who died in 1926

Bessie Coleman

Elizabeth Coleman
First Name Bessie
Last Name Coleman
Born on January 26, 1892
Died on April 30, 1926 (aged 34)

Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native-American to hold a pilot license. She earned her pilot license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first black person to earn an international pilot's license.

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Harry Houdini

Erik Weisz
First Name Harry
Last Name Houdini
Born on March 24, 1874
Died on October 31, 1926 (aged 52)
Born in Hungary
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts.

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Bobby Leach

First Name Bobby
Last Name Leach
Born on November 30, 1857
Died on April 26, 1926 (aged 68)

Bobby Leach was the second person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, accomplishing the feat on July 25, 1911 —while Annie Taylor did it on October 24, 1901. He spent six months in the hospital recovering from injuries he sustained during the fall, which included two broken knee caps and a fractured jaw. Leach had been a performer with the Barnum and Bailey Circus and was no stranger to stunting. Prior to his trip over the falls he owned a restaurant on Bridge Street and would boast to customers that anything Annie could do, he could do better.

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Robert Todd Lincoln

First Name Robert
Last Name Lincoln
Born on August 1, 1843
Died on July 26, 1926 (aged 82)

Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. He was the eldest child of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and the only one of their four children to live to adulthood. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company president, and served as U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

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Annie Oakley

Phoebe Ann Mosey
First Name Annie
Born on August 13, 1860
Died on November 3, 1926 (aged 66)

Annie Oakley was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
First Name Gertrude
Born on July 14, 1868
Died on July 12, 1926 (aged 57)
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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped support the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.

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Rudolph Valentino

First Name Rudolph
Last Name Valentino
Born on May 6, 1895
Died on August 23, 1926 (aged 31)
Born in Italy, Apulia
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt
First Name Mary
Last Name Cassatt
Died on June 14, 1926

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

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George Sterling

First Name George
Last Name Sterling
Born on December 1, 1869
Died on November 17, 1926 (aged 56)

George Sterling was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis, but is largely neglected today.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet
First Name Claude
Last Name Monet
Born on November 14, 1840
Died on December 5, 1926 (aged 86)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

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