Famous Deaths In January - 26
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
0946 On this day in history death of eadgyth, German Queen
1109 On this day in history albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies
1567 On January - 26 death of nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) on January - 26.
1636 On January - 26 death of jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 On January - 26 death of georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1706 On January - 26 guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59
1744 On January - 26 death of ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 Death of Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) on January - 26.
1795 On this day in history johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.
1799 On this day in history death of gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 on January - 26.
1823 On this day in history death of edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on January - 26.
1849 On this day in history death of thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies on January - 26.
1855 On January - 26 death of gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 On this day in history death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 On this day in history cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1885 Death of Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51 on January - 26.
1886 Death of David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807) on January - 26.
1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies on this day in history.
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 On this day in history john P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
1911 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1920 On this day in history death of matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1922 On January - 26 luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75
1926 Death of John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University on January - 26.
1932 On this day in history william K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies
1933 On this day in history death of alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 On January - 26 death of armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1942 On this day in history gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
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