1926
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![Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background. (Photo by Walery)](/images/thumb/200px-Josephine_Baker_dancing_the_Charleston_to_an_Art_Deco-styole_background.jpg)
Josephine Baker dancing the charleston at the Folies Bergère in Paris for La Revue nègre in 1926. Notice the art deco background.
(Photo by Walery)
(Photo by Walery)
![Inversions, the first French gay journal is published. Produced between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "Outrage aux bonnes mœurs". Its full title was Inversions ... in art, literature, philosophy and science.](/images/thumb/200px-Inversions.jpg)
Inversions, the first French gay journal is published. Produced between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "Outrage aux bonnes mœurs". Its full title was Inversions ... in art, literature, philosophy and science.
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1926 was the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
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Art and culture
- Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany by Walter Gropius
- First issue of Amazing Stories published
Visual art
- Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden by Otto Dix
Literature
- Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
- Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler (adapted as the film Eyes Wide Shut by American director Stanley Kubrick)
- A Million and One Nights by Terry Ramsaye
Film
- Anémic Cinéma by Marcel Duchamp
- Ménilmontant by Dimitri Kirsanoff
- Now You Tell One by Charles Bowers
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Births
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
- Roger Corman (1926 - )
- Chuck Berry, American musician (1926 - 2017)
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
- Clifford Geertz (1926 - 2006)
- Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
- Klaus Kinski (1926 - 1991)
- Eric Stanton (1926-1999)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
- Robert Benayoun (1926 - 1996)
- Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1926 - 2014)
- Charles Seliger (1926 - 2009)
Deaths
- September 5 - Martin van Maële (b. 1863)
- Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926)
- Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
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