Famous Deaths In March - 26

0304  Death of Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian on March - 26.  

0752  Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies on March - 26.  

0809  Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66 on March - 26.  

1130  Death of King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090) on this day in history.  

1212  On this day in history sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212), dies at 58  

1258  Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies on March - 26.  

1350  Alfonso XI, King of Castile & Leon, dies on this day in history.  

1517  Death of Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer on March - 26.  

1535  Death of Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482) on March - 26.  

1546  On this day in history thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies  

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1566  Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies on March - 26.  

1638  Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30 on this day in history.  

1649  On March - 26 john Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies  

1657  On this day in history jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69  

1679  Death of Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621) on March - 26.  

1697  On this day in history death of godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)  

1713  Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1726  On this day in history john Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62  

1736  Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1772  On this day in history death of charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)  

1776  Death of Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725) on March - 26.  

1780  On March - 26 death of charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)  

1793  On March - 26 death of john Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)  

1797  On March - 26 james Hutton, geologist, dies  

1809  On this day in history gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68  

1814  Death of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738) on March - 26.  

1820  On this day in history jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71  

1827  Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 on March - 26.  

1831  Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 on March - 26.  

1837  Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1858  On this day in history death of john Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)  

1865  On this day in history thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies  

1880  Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62 on March - 26.  

1881  On this day in history death of roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)  

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1479  On this day in history birth of vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III  

1516  On this day in history birth of conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)  

1554  On this day in history birth of charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)  

1577  On this day in history birth of elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon  

1659  On March - 26 birth of william Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher  

1671  Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer was born on this day in history.  

1684  On this day in history birth of johann Graf, composer  

1698  On March - 26 birth of václav Prokop DiviÅ¡, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)