Famous Deaths Happened In July - 26

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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1030  On this day in history birth of stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)   

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 this day in history 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 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.