Famous Deaths In July - 26

0796  On July - 26 death of offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)  

0811  On July - 26 nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle  

1342  On July - 26 charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies  

1380  On July - 26 death of emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)  

1471  On July - 26 paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54  

1533  On this day in history atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies  

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima on July - 26.  

1592  On July - 26 death of armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)  

1611  On July - 26 death of horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)  

1630  Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies on July - 26.  

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1677  On July - 26 michael Franck, composer, dies at 68  

1680  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies on July - 26.  

1684  On July - 26 death of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)  

1712  Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80 on July - 26.  

1719  Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

1723  Death of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660) on July - 26.  

1728  John Friend, physician/politician, dies on July - 26.  

1770  Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1801  On this day in history daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86  

1826  On July - 26 freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82  

1836  On this day in history jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45  

1863  On this day in history samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70  

1867  Death of King Otto of Greece (b. 1815) on July - 26.  

1872  On July - 26 michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84  

1881  On this day in history george Borrow, writer, dies  

1910  Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71 on July - 26.  

1915  On July - 26 james Murray, philologist, dies  

1916  Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52 on July - 26.  

1918  On July - 26 eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies  

1919  Death of Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) on July - 26.  

1920  Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83 on July - 26.  

1925  On this day in history william Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65  

1935  On this day in history death of winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)  

1941  Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies on July - 26.  

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1030  On July - 26 birth of stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)  

1467  On this day in history birth of ferdinand II, King of Naples  

1678  On this day in history birth of joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)  

1694  Johann Samuel Endler, composer was born on this day in history.  

1739  On July - 26 birth of george Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)  

1782  On this day in history birth of john Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)  

1791  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM  

1796  On July - 26 birth of george Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)