| 72961 | June 26 | Birth | 1895 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (d. 1950) |
| 72962 | June 26 | Birth | 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman (d. 1978) |
| 72963 | June 26 | Birth | 1898 – Chesty Puller, American general (d. 1971) |
| 72964 | June 26 | Birth | 1899 – Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) |
| 72965 | June 26 | Birth | 1901 – Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (d. 1988) |
| 72966 | June 26 | Birth | 1902 – Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and educator (d. 2010) |
| 72967 | June 26 | Birth | 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958) |
| 72968 | June 26 | Birth | 1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951) |
| 72969 | June 26 | Birth | 1904 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964) |
| 72970 | June 26 | Birth | 1905 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (d. 1985) |
| 72971 | June 26 | Birth | 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (d. 1974) |
| 72972 | June 26 | Birth | 1906 – Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and educator (d. 2008) |
| 72973 | June 26 | Birth | 1907 – Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984) |
| 72974 | June 26 | Birth | 1908 – Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (d. 1973) |
| 72975 | June 26 | Birth | 1909 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997) |
| 72976 | June 26 | Birth | 1909 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (d. 1985) |
| 72977 | June 26 | Birth | 1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956) |
| 72978 | June 26 | Birth | 1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009) |
| 72979 | June 26 | Birth | 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician (d. 2008) |
| 72980 | June 26 | Birth | 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010) |
| 72981 | June 26 | Birth | 1914 – Kathryn Johnston, American shooting victim (d. 2006) |
| 72982 | June 26 | Birth | 1914 – Laurie Lee, English author and poet (d. 1997) |
| 72983 | June 26 | Birth | 1915 – Paul Castellano, American mob boss (d. 1985) |
| 72984 | June 26 | Birth | 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (d. 2013) |
| 72985 | June 26 | Birth | 1916 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988) |
| 72986 | June 26 | Birth | 1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian actor and singer (d. 2010) |
| 72987 | June 26 | Birth | 1919 – Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and academic (d. 2003) |
| 72988 | June 26 | Birth | 1920 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2014) |
| 72989 | June 26 | Birth | 1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945) |
| 72990 | June 26 | Birth | 1922 – Walter Farley, American author (d. 1989) |