Famous Deaths Happened In July - 26

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on this day in history.   

0811  Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle on this day in history.   

1342  Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on July - 26.   

1380  On this day in history death of emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)   

1471  On this day in history paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54   

1533  On July - 26 atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies   

1541  On this day in history death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima   

1592  On this day in history death of armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)   

1611  Death of Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542) on July - 26.   

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

1677  Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68 on July - 26.   

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

1684  Death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646) on July - 26.   

1712  Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1719  Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43 on July - 26.   

1723  On this day in history death of robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)   

1728  On July - 26 john Friend, physician/politician, dies   

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

1801  Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1826  Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on July - 26.   

1836  Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45 on July - 26.   

1863  Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70 on July - 26.   

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

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

1881  George Borrow, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71   

1915  James Murray, philologist, dies on July - 26.   

1916  On this day in history gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52   

1918  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1925  William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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

1941  Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies on this day in history.   

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1030  On this day in history birth of stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)   

1467  Ferdinand II, King of Naples was born on July - 26.   

1678  Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11) was born on July - 26.   

1694  On this day in history birth of johann Samuel Endler, composer   

1739  George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12) was born on July - 26.   

1782  On July - 26 birth of john Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)   

1791  On July - 26 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)