Famous Deaths Happened In January - 26

0946  Death of Eadgyth, German Queen on January - 26.   

1109  Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.   

1567  Death of Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.   

1630  Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) on this day in history.   

1636  Death of Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) on this day in history.   

1697  On January - 26 death of georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)   

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  Death of Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) on this day in history.   

1795  Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1798  On this day in history christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49   

1799  On this day in history death of gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)   

1803  On January - 26 georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72   

1823  Death of Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) on January - 26.   

1824  Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on this day in history.   

1849  Death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 on this day in history.   

1850  On January - 26 francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies   

1855  On this day in history death of gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)   

1869  On January - 26 death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)   

1870  Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1885  Death of Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51 on this day in history.   

1886  On January - 26 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 January - 26 abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday   

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 this day in history death of matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered   

1922  On this day in history luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75   

1926  Death of John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University on January - 26.   

1932  On January - 26 william K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies   

1933  On January - 26 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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1497  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)   

1541  Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596) was born on this day in history.   

1613  Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer was born on this day in history.   

1667  On January - 26 birth of henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies   

1708  On this day in history birth of william Hayes, composer   

1714  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) was born on this day in history.   

1715  On this day in history birth of claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher   

1716  George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville was born on this day in history.