January 21, 1926

1926Clive Donner, British director (died 2010)^[†]

Clive Stanley Donner was a British film director who was part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing but the Best, What's New Pussycat?, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. He also directed television movies and commercials through the mid-1990s.

1926Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (died 1980)^[†]

Franco Evangelisti was an Italian composer specifically interested in the scientific theories behind sound.

1926Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder and actor (died 2000)^[†]

Stephen Lester Reeves was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing the protagonist as muscular characters such as Hercules, Goliath, and Sandokan. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe. Though best known for his portrayal of Hercules, he played the character only twice: in Hercules (1958), and in its 1959 sequel Hercules Unchained. By 1960, Reeves was ranked as the number-one box-office draw in 25 countries.

1926Roger Taillibert, French architect (died 2019)^[†]

Roger Taillibert was a French architect, active as a designer from about 1963 to 1987.

1926Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon (died 2010)^[†]

Robert Joseph White was an American neurosurgeon and bioethicist best known for his work on hypothermia and his experiments with head transplants on mammals, including living monkeys.

1926Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)^[†]

Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia between 1860 and 1868 under the tutelage of Cesare Lombroso. Inspired by pathologist Giulio Bizzozero, he pursued research in the nervous system. His discovery of a staining technique called black reaction in 1873 was a major breakthrough in neuroscience. Several structures and phenomena in anatomy and physiology are named for him, including the Golgi apparatus, the Golgi tendon organ and the Golgi tendon reflex.