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 July - 26 charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies  

1380  Death of Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322) on July - 26.  

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  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 this day in history.  

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

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

1684  On July - 26 death of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)  

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

1719  On July - 26 johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43  

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 July - 26.  

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

1801  On this day in history daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86  

1826  Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1836  On July - 26 jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1910  Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1915  On this day in history 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 July - 26 death of sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)  

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

1925  On this day in history william Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65  

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  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) was born on July - 26.  

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  Johann Samuel Endler, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history birth of franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM  

1796  George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) was born on July - 26.