| 96901 | August 26 | Birth | 1789 – Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (d. 1833) |
| 96902 | August 26 | Birth | 1792 – Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (d. 1857) |
| 96903 | August 26 | Birth | 1819 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861) |
| 96904 | August 26 | Birth | 1826 – Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875) |
| 96905 | August 26 | Birth | 1845 – Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888) |
| 96906 | August 26 | Birth | 1854 – Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932) |
| 96907 | August 26 | Birth | 1856 – Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress (d. 1939) |
| 96908 | August 26 | Birth | 1862 – Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader (d. 1926) |
| 96909 | August 26 | Birth | 1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946) |
| 96910 | August 26 | Birth | 1873 – Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961) |
| 96911 | August 26 | Birth | 1874 – Zona Gale, American author and playwright (d. 1938) |
| 96912 | August 26 | Birth | 1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (d. 1940) |
| 96913 | August 26 | Birth | 1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1918) |
| 96914 | August 26 | Birth | 1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) |
| 96915 | August 26 | Birth | 1885 – Jules Romains, French author and poet (d. 1972) |
| 96916 | August 26 | Birth | 1891 – Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright (d. 1960) |
| 96917 | August 26 | Birth | 1894 – Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (d. 1989) |
| 96918 | August 26 | Birth | 1896 – Besse Cooper, American super-centenarian (d. 2012) |
| 96919 | August 26 | Birth | 1896 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990) |
| 96920 | August 26 | Birth | 1897 – Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (d. 1990) |
| 96921 | August 26 | Birth | 1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1979) |
| 96922 | August 26 | Birth | 1900 – Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980) |
| 96923 | August 26 | Birth | 1901 – Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet (d. 1985) |
| 96924 | August 26 | Birth | 1901 – Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945) |
| 96925 | August 26 | Birth | 1901 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (d. 1972) |
| 96926 | August 26 | Birth | 1901 – Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987) |
| 96927 | August 26 | Birth | 1901 – Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 1972) |
| 96928 | August 26 | Birth | 1903 – Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992) |
| 96929 | August 26 | Birth | 1904 – Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (d. 1986) |
| 96930 | August 26 | Birth | 1904 – Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991) |