Famous Deaths Happened In July - 26
Monday, 03 November 2025
0796 Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on this day in history. 

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 this day in history. 

1380 On this day in history death of emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322) 

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 July - 26. 

1611 Death of Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542) on this day in history. 

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

1677 On July - 26 michael Franck, composer, dies at 68 

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

1684 Death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646) on July - 26. 

1712 Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80 on July - 26. 

1719 Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history. 

1723 On July - 26 death of robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660) 

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

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 July - 26. 

1836 Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history. 

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

1867 Death of King Otto of Greece (b. 1815) on July - 26. 

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

1881 On this day in history george Borrow, writer, dies 

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

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 July - 26 death of sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) 

1920 On July - 26 carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83 

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

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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