1926 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Plutarco Elías Calles
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

August

• August 3 – Some 400 armed Catholics barricaded themselves in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalajara, Jalisco and exchanged gunfire with federal troops until they ran out of ammunition and surrendered. According to U.S. consular sources, 18 were killed and 40 wounded.

  Births

• January 24 — Alejandro Cervantes Delgado, economist and politician ; Governor of Guerrero 1981–1987
• February 10 — Carmen Romano de Lopez, First Lady of Mexico .
• March 20 — Marcela Lombardo Otero, daughter of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, politician, .
• April 7 – Julio Scherer García, journalist .
• April 15 — Manuel Capetillo, bullfighter, actor, singer, and songwriter.
• May 29 – Teodoro González de León, architect ;.
• August 8 – Arturo García Bustos, painter
• September 4 — Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
• October 1 − Miguel León-Portilla, anthropologist and historian.
• November 11 — Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara 1987-1993
• December 23 — Leticia Palma, actress,
• Date unknown:
• *Valdemar Jiménez Solís, poet, académic, and cultural journalist.
• *Antonio Riva Palacio, governor of Morelos 1988-1994

  Deaths

• July 22: General Vicente Aranda, Zapatista general and municipal president of Jojutla.