Famous Deaths In January - 26
Monday, 18 March 2024
0946 On January - 26 death of eadgyth, German Queen
1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.
1567 On January - 26 death of nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 On January - 26 death of henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 On this day in history death of jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 On this day in history death of georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1706 On January - 26 guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59
1744 Death of Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) on January - 26.
1750 On January - 26 death of albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.
1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.
1799 On January - 26 death of gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1803 On this day in history georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72
1823 Death of Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) on this day in history.
1824 Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on this day in history.
1849 On January - 26 death of thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
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 On this day in history death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 On January - 26 cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1885 On this day in history death of charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
1886 On January - 26 death of david Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 On January - 26 nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies
1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday on January - 26.
1895 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies on January - 26.
1904 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 on January - 26.
1911 On this day in history charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67
1920 On January - 26 death of matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1922 Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75 on January - 26.
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 Death of Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853) on January - 26.
1939 On January - 26 death of armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1942 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83 on January - 26.
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