| 110161 | September 26 | Event | 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse. |
| 110162 | September 26 | Event | 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. |
| 110163 | September 26 | Event | 2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers. |
| 110164 | September 26 | Event | 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000. |
| 110165 | September 26 | Event | 2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel. |
| 110166 | September 26 | Event | 2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities. |
| 110167 | September 26 | Event | 2010 – Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped by members of the Taliban in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. |
| 110168 | September 26 | Event | 2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico. |
| 110169 | September 26 | Birth | 1329 – Anne of Bavaria (d. 1353) |
| 110170 | September 26 | Birth | 1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, First Lord of the Admiralty (d. 1779) |
| 110171 | September 26 | Birth | 1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (d. 1810) |
| 110172 | September 26 | Birth | 1758 – Cosme Argerich, Argentinian physician (d. 1820) |
| 110173 | September 26 | Birth | 1767 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835) |
| 110174 | September 26 | Birth | 1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist (d. 1845) |
| 110175 | September 26 | Birth | 1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer (d. 1824) |
| 110176 | September 26 | Birth | 1792 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842) |
| 110177 | September 26 | Birth | 1820 – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian philosopher, painter, and academic (d. 1891) |
| 110178 | September 26 | Birth | 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (d. 1923) |
| 110179 | September 26 | Birth | 1843 – Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (d. 1912) |
| 110180 | September 26 | Birth | 1848 – Henry Walters, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1931) |
| 110181 | September 26 | Birth | 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936) |
| 110182 | September 26 | Birth | 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 1937) |
| 110183 | September 26 | Birth | 1867 – Winsor McCay, American illustrator and animator (d. 1934) |
| 110184 | September 26 | Birth | 1869 – Komitas, Armenian-French priest and composer (d. 1935) |
| 110185 | September 26 | Birth | 1870 – Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947) |
| 110186 | September 26 | Birth | 1872 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (d. 1945) |
| 110187 | September 26 | Birth | 1873 – Wacław Berent, Polish author and translator (d. 1940) |
| 110188 | September 26 | Birth | 1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940) |
| 110189 | September 26 | Birth | 1875 – Edmund Gwenn, English-American actor and singer (d. 1959) |
| 110190 | September 26 | Birth | 1876 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and author (d. 1957) |