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 this day in history.  

1342  Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on July - 26.  

1380  On July - 26 death of emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)  

1471  Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 on July - 26.  

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

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

1592  On July - 26 death of armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)  

1611  On July - 26 death of horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)  

1630  On this day in history charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies  

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

1680  On July - 26 john Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies  

1684  On this day in history death of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)  

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  On July - 26 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  Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65 on July - 26.  

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

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  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 this day in history.  

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  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  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  Death of Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871) on this day in history.  

1941  On July - 26 benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies  

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1030  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) was born on July - 26.  

1467  On July - 26 birth of ferdinand II, King of Naples  

1678  On July - 26 birth of joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)  

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  John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes) was born on July - 26.  

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.