Famous Deaths In July - 26

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

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

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  Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies on July - 26.   

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 this day in history.   

1611  On this day in history death of horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)   

1630  On July - 26 charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies   

1677  On this day in history michael Franck, composer, dies at 68   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 July - 26 john Friend, physician/politician, dies   

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

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

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

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 July - 26.   

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

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

1910  On this day in history philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71   

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

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

1918  On this day in history 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  On this day in history carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83   

1925  On July - 26 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  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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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.