Famous Deaths In January - 26
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
0946 Death of Eadgyth, German Queen on this day in history.
1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.
1567 On this day in history death of nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) on January - 26.
1636 Death of Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) on January - 26.
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 this day in history.
1750 On this day in history death of albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
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 Death of Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722) on this day in history.
1803 On January - 26 georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72
1823 Death of Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) on January - 26.
1824 On January - 26 edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies
1849 On January - 26 death of thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies on this day in history.
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 this day in history cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1885 On January - 26 death of charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
1886 Death of David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807) on January - 26.
1891 On January - 26 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 this day in history.
1904 On January - 26 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 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 On January - 26 william K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies
1933 Death of Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853) on this day in history.
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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