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August 26:

Film releases
 * 1920 - The Head of Janus, a horror silent film directed by F. W. Murnau, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
 * 1953 - The premiere of War of the Worlds, a science fiction film

Deaths
 * 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr. (b. 1883), an American actor during the age of silent films best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters