Famous Deaths In January - 26
Thursday, 28 March 2024
0946 Death of Eadgyth, German Queen on this day in history.
1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.
1567 Death of Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.
1630 On January - 26 death of henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 On January - 26 death of jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) on this day in history.
1706 Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on January - 26.
1744 On this day in history death of ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 On this day in history death of albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 On January - 26 johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
1798 On January - 26 christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49
1799 Death of Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722) on this day in history.
1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1823 Death of Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) on this day in history.
1824 Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on January - 26.
1849 Death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 on this day in history.
1850 On this day in history francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies
1855 Death of Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) on January - 26.
1869 Death of Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846) on this day in history.
1870 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1885 On this day in history death of charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
1886 On this day in history death of david Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 On this day in history nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies
1893 On this day in history abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
1895 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies on this day in history.
1904 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 on this day in history.
1911 On this day in history charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67
1920 Death of Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered on January - 26.
1922 On January - 26 luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75
1926 On January - 26 death of john Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies on this day in history.
1933 On this day in history death of alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 Death of Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard on this day in history.
1942 On January - 26 gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
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