Famous Deaths In July - 26
Saturday, 27 April 2024
0796 On this day in history death of offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)
0811 Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle on July - 26.
1342 Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on July - 26.
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 Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima on July - 26.
1592 On this day in history death of armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 On this day in history 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.
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 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 Death of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660) on July - 26.
1728 John Friend, physician/politician, dies on July - 26.
1770 On July - 26 michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65
1801 Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.
1826 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on July - 26.
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 Death of King Otto of Greece (b. 1815) on this day in history.
1872 On July - 26 michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
1881 On July - 26 george Borrow, writer, dies
1910 On this day in history philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71
1915 James Murray, philologist, dies on July - 26.
1916 On July - 26 gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52
1918 On July - 26 eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies
1919 Death of Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) on this day in history.
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 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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