Famous Deaths In July - 26

0796  On this day in history death of offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)  

0811  Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle on July - 26.  

1342  Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on this day in history.  

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  Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies on July - 26.  

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 this day in history death of horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)  

1630  On this day in history charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies  

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

1680  On July - 26 john Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies  

1684  On this day in history death of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)  

1712  On this day in history thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80  

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

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 this day in history.  

1770  On this day in history michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65  

1801  Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86 on July - 26.  

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

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

1863  On July - 26 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 this day in history.  

1872  Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84 on July - 26.  

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

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

1915  James Murray, philologist, dies on this day in history.  

1916  On July - 26 gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52  

1918  Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies on July - 26.  

1919  On this day in history death of sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)  

1920  Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

1925  William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65 on July - 26.  

1935  On July - 26 death of winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)  

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

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1030  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) was born on this day in history.  

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

1739  On this day in history 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 July - 26 birth of franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM  

1796  George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) was born on this day in history.