Famous Deaths In July - 26

0796  On July - 26 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 July - 26.  

1380  Death of Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322) on this day in history.  

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

1533  Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies on July - 26.  

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

1592  Death of Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524) on July - 26.  

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.  

1677  Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1680  On this day in history john Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies  

1684  Death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1728  John Friend, physician/politician, dies on this day in history.  

1770  On July - 26 michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65  

1801  On July - 26 daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86  

1826  On this day in history freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82  

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

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

1867  On this day in history death of king Otto of Greece (b. 1815)  

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

1881  On July - 26 george Borrow, writer, dies  

1910  On July - 26 philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71  

1915  On July - 26 james Murray, philologist, dies  

1916  Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

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

1941  On this day in history benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies  

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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  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  George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12) was born on this day in history.  

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

1791  Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM was born on July - 26.  

1796  On this day in history birth of george Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)