| 96931 | August 26 | Birth | 1906 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993) |
| 96932 | August 26 | Birth | 1907 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (d. 2004) |
| 96933 | August 26 | Birth | 1908 – Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967) |
| 96934 | August 26 | Birth | 1908 – Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999) |
| 96935 | August 26 | Birth | 1908 – Gilly Flower, English actress (d. 2001) |
| 96936 | August 26 | Birth | 1909 – Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator (d. 1976) |
| 96937 | August 26 | Birth | 1909 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 96938 | August 26 | Birth | 1909 – Gene Moore, American baseball player (d. 1978) |
| 96939 | August 26 | Birth | 1910 – Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |
| 96940 | August 26 | Birth | 1911 – Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (d. 1974) |
| 96941 | August 26 | Birth | 1914 – Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (d. 1984) |
| 96942 | August 26 | Birth | 1914 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (d. 2008) |
| 96943 | August 26 | Birth | 1915 – Humphrey Searle, English composer and conductor (d. 1982) |
| 96944 | August 26 | Birth | 1918 – Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician |
| 96945 | August 26 | Birth | 1919 – Gerard Campbell, American priest and academic (d. 2012) |
| 96946 | August 26 | Birth | 1920 – Brant Parker, American illustrator (d. 2007) |
| 96947 | August 26 | Birth | 1920 – Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand |
| 96948 | August 26 | Birth | 1921 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994) |
| 96949 | August 26 | Birth | 1921 – Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014) |
| 96950 | August 26 | Birth | 1922 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (d. 2009) |
| 96951 | August 26 | Birth | 1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013) |
| 96952 | August 26 | Birth | 1924 – Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 96953 | August 26 | Birth | 1925 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (d. 2005) |
| 96954 | August 26 | Birth | 1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999) |
| 96955 | August 26 | Birth | 1925 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013) |
| 96956 | August 26 | Birth | 1926 – Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999) |
| 96957 | August 26 | Birth | 1926 – Robert Vickrey, American painter and author (d. 2011) |
| 96958 | August 26 | Birth | 1927 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect and academic, designed the Amdavad ni Gufa |
| 96959 | August 26 | Birth | 1928 – Peter Appleyard, English-Canadian vibraphone player and composer (d. 2013) |
| 96960 | August 26 | Birth | 1928 – Naïm Kattan, Iraqi-Canadian author and critic |