| 10681 | January 26 | Birth | 1887 – François Faber, French-Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915) |
| 10682 | January 26 | Birth | 1887 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (d. 1947) |
| 10683 | January 26 | Birth | 1891 – Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1973) |
| 10684 | January 26 | Birth | 1891 – August Froehlich, German priest and martyr (d. 1942) |
| 10685 | January 26 | Birth | 1891 – Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian neurosurgeon and academic (d. 1976) |
| 10686 | January 26 | Birth | 1892 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (d. 1926) |
| 10687 | January 26 | Birth | 1892 – Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978) |
| 10688 | January 26 | Birth | 1893 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Italian mob boss (d. 1976) |
| 10689 | January 26 | Birth | 1899 – Günther Reindorff, Russian-Estonian graphic designer and illustrator (d. 1974) |
| 10690 | January 26 | Birth | 1900 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967) |
| 10691 | January 26 | Birth | 1902 – Jokichi Ikarashi, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2013) |
| 10692 | January 26 | Birth | 1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (d. 1940) |
| 10693 | January 26 | Birth | 1904 – Ancel Keys, American physiologist and nutritionist (d. 2004) |
| 10694 | January 26 | Birth | 1904 – Seán MacBride, Irish lawyer and politician, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) |
| 10695 | January 26 | Birth | 1905 – Charles Lane, American actor and singer (d. 2007) |
| 10696 | January 26 | Birth | 1905 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 1987) |
| 10697 | January 26 | Birth | 1907 – Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest (d. 2001) |
| 10698 | January 26 | Birth | 1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990) |
| 10699 | January 26 | Birth | 1908 – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and sculptor (d. 2009) |
| 10700 | January 26 | Birth | 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (d. 1997) |
| 10701 | January 26 | Birth | 1910 – Jean Image, Hungarian-French animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989) |
| 10702 | January 26 | Birth | 1911 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) |
| 10703 | January 26 | Birth | 1911 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (d. 2002) |
| 10704 | January 26 | Birth | 1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (d. 1990) |
| 10705 | January 26 | Birth | 1914 – Princess Durru Shehvar of the Ottoman Empire (d. 2006) |
| 10706 | January 26 | Birth | 1915 – William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 10707 | January 26 | Birth | 1917 – Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain (d. 2014) |
| 10708 | January 26 | Birth | 1918 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania (d. 1989) |
| 10709 | January 26 | Birth | 1918 – Philip José Farmer, American author (d. 2009) |
| 10710 | January 26 | Birth | 1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949) |