Famous Deaths In July - 26

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on July - 26.  

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

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

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

1541  On July - 26 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 this day in history.  

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

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

1680  John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies on this day in history.  

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

1712  On July - 26 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 this day in history.  

1728  On this day in history john Friend, physician/politician, dies  

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

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  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  On July - 26 death of king Otto of Greece (b. 1815)  

1872  On this day in history michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84  

1881  George Borrow, writer, dies on July - 26.  

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

1915  On July - 26 james Murray, philologist, dies  

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

1918  Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies on this day in history.  

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

1935  On July - 26 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  Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11) was born on July - 26.  

1694  On July - 26 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  George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) was born on this day in history.