July 6, 1926

1926Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (died 2007)^[†]

Sulev Vahtre was an eminent Estonian historian.

1926Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist (died 2022)^[†]

Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies. Smith was also involved in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.