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The year 1926 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1926.
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Global television events
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| January || 26 || John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images with tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.
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| August || 18 || A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C.
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| December || 25 || Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrates a system that uses a mechanical Nipkow disk and a photoelectric tube in the transmitting device, and a cathode-ray tube in the receiving device. He transmits the 40-line still image of a Japanese character.
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Births
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| January 8 || Soupy Sales || U.S. comedian and actor (died 2009)
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| February 6 || Bob Trow || U.S. actor (died 1998)
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| February 20 || Whitney Blake || U.S. actress (Hazel) (died 2002)
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| March 1 || Robert Clary || French-U.S. actor (Hogan's Heroes) (died 2022)
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| March 16 || Jerry Lewis || U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017)
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| March 30 || Peter Marshall || Game show host (died 2024)
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| April 18 || Harold Hayes || U.S. broadcaster (died 1989)
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| April 22 || Charlotte Rae || U.S. actress (The Facts of Life) (died 2018)
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| April 30 || Cloris Leachman || U.S. actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Phyllis, Raising Hope) (died 2021)
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| May 5 || Ann B. Davis || U.S. actress (The Brady Bunch) (died 2014)
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|rowspan="2"| May 8 || Sir David Attenborough || British naturalist, documentary-maker and television executive
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| Don Rickles || U.S. comedian and actor (died 2017)
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| May 25 || Claude Akins || Actor (died 1994)
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| May 26 || Regis Cordic || Actor (died 1999)
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| May 29 || Katie Boyle || Italian-born British television personality (Eurovision Song Contest) (died 2018)
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| June 1 || Andy Griffith || U.S. actor, producer (The Andy Griffith Show) (died 2012)
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| June 10 || Joe Negri || U.S. Jazz guitarist
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| June 28 || Mel Brooks || U.S. comedy writer, actor, director, producer (Get Smart)
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| July 10 || Fred Gwynne || U.S. actor (Car 54, Where Are You?, The Munsters) (died 1993)
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| October 11 || Earle Hyman || U.S. actor (The Cosby Show, ThunderCats) (died 2017)
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| October 17 || Julie Adams || U.S. actress (Murder, She Wrote) (died 2019)
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| November 9 || Johnny Beattie || Scottish actor (died 2020)
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| November 13 || Jim Jensen || U.S. anchor (died 1999)
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| November 25 || Jeffrey Hunter || U.S. actor (Temple Houston, Star Trek) (died 1969)
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| November 30 || Richard Crenna || U.S. actor (died 2003)
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| December 1 || Keith Michell || actor (died 2015)
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| December 17 || Patrice Wymore || U.S. actress (died 2014)
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| December 19 || Herb Stempel || U.S. television game show contestant (died 2020)
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