Famous Deaths In July - 26
Friday, 26 July 2024
0796 On July - 26 death of offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)
0811 Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle on this day in history.
1342 On this day in history charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies
1380 Death of Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322) on this day in history.
1471 Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 on this day in history.
1533 On July - 26 atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies
1541 Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima on this day in history.
1592 Death of Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524) on July - 26.
1611 Death of Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542) on July - 26.
1630 On July - 26 charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies
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 this day in history death of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80 on July - 26.
1719 On this day in history johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43
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 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 this day in history.
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 July - 26.
1872 Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.
1881 George Borrow, writer, dies on July - 26.
1910 On this day in history philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71
1915 On this day in history james Murray, philologist, dies
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 July - 26 death of sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1920 On July - 26 carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83
1925 On this day in history william Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65
1935 Death of Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871) on this day in history.
1941 On this day in history benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
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