Famous Deaths Happened In July - 26

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  On July - 26 charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies   

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 July - 26.   

1533  Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies on this day in history.   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima on July - 26.   

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  Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies on this day in history.   

1677  Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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

1719  On July - 26 johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43   

1723  Death of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660) on this day in history.   

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

1770  On July - 26 michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65   

1801  On July - 26 daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86   

1826  Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on July - 26.   

1836  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history george Borrow, writer, dies   

1910  On July - 26 philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71   

1915  James Murray, philologist, dies on July - 26.   

1916  On this day in history gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52   

1918  Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies on this day in history.   

1919  On July - 26 death of sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)   

1920  Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

1935  On July - 26 death of winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)   

1941  Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies on July - 26.   

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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 July - 26.   

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  On this day in history birth of george Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)   

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  On July - 26 birth of george Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)