What day of the week was August 6, 1926?

The day of the week August 6th, 1926 fell on was a Friday.

Elisabeth Beresford the French-English author (d. 2010) was born on 06 August in 1926. As was Frank Finlay the English actor , Clem Labine the American baseball player and manager (d. 2007) , Moritz the Landgrave of Hesse (d. 2013) , János Rózsás the Hungarian author (d. 2012) , Norman Wexler the American screenwriter (d. 1999) .

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. In New York the New York, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan starring John Barrymore.