Month January 1926 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1926

• 1st » Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2008)
• 1st » Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
• 2nd » Howard Caine, American director (d. 1993)
• 3rd » W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman and politician, 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 3rd » George Martin, English composer and producer
• 5th » W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009)
• 5th » Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (d. 2000)
• 6th » Ralph Branca, American baseball player
• 6th » Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (d. 2002)
• 6th » Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
• 6th » Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
• 6th » Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
• 7th » Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea
• 8th » Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
• 8th » Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer (d. 2004)
• 8th » Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
• 8th » Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
• 9th » Jani Christou, Egyptian-Greek composer (d. 1970)
• 9th » Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
• 9th » Sydney Lotterby, English director and producer
• 10th » Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
• 11th » Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 12th » Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
• 12th » Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2011)
• 12th » Ray Price (musician) named Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 13th » Michael Bond, English soldier and author
• 13th » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author (d. 2003)
• 13th » Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer (d. 1999)
• 13th » Shakti Samanta, Indian director and producer (d. 2009)
• 14th » Frank Aletter, American actor (d. 2009)
• 14th » Warren Mitchell, English actor
• 14th » Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
• 15th » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (d. 2005)
• 16th » O. P. Nayyar, Indian composer (d. 2007)
• 17th » Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician
• 17th » Moira Shearer, Scottish-English actress and dancer (d. 2006)
• 19th » George Ives (actor) called George Ives, American actor (d. 2013)
• 19th » Jim Line, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 19th » Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 19th » Fritz Weaver, American actor
• 20th » Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic
• 20th » Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani author (d. 2007)
• 20th » Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
• 20th » David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 21st » Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)
• 21st » Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
• 23rd » Kyriakos Matsis, Cypriot EOKA member (d. 1958)
• 23rd » Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 24th » Ruth Asawa, American sculptor (d. 2013)
• 24th » Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 26th » Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and scholar
• 26th » Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American businessman (d. 2014)
• 27th » Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
• 27th » Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
• 29th » Franco Cerri, Italian guitarist
• 29th » Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 30th » Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 31st » Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)

Famous Deaths for January 1926

• 10th » Eino Leino, Finnish poet (b. 1878)
• 12th » Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
• 14th » August Sedláček, Czech historian (b. 1843)
• 15th » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 21st » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 26th » John Flannagan (priest) called John Flannagan, American priest (b. 1860)
• 30th » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)

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