December 9, 1926

1926Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)^[†]

Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."

1926Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (died 1995)^[†]

Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava, better known by his pen name Jan Křesadlo, was a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet.

1926David Nathan, British journalist (died 2001)^[†]

David Nathan was a British journalist.

1926Lorenzo Wright, American sprinter and coach (died 1972)^[†]

Lorenzo Christopher Wright was an American athlete. A Detroit native, he started at Miller High School and Wayne State University; Wright is renowned for his noteworthy track and field accomplishments.