Famous Deaths In January - 26
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
0946 On this day in history death of eadgyth, German Queen
1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.
1567 On this day in history death of nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) on this day in history.
1636 Death of Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) on January - 26.
1697 Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) on January - 26.
1706 Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on January - 26.
1744 On this day in history death of ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 On this day in history death of albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 On this day in history johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.
1799 On January - 26 death of gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1823 Death of Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) on this day in history.
1824 Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on January - 26.
1849 On this day in history death of thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies on this day in history.
1855 Death of Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) on January - 26.
1869 Death of Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846) on this day in history.
1870 On this day in history cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1885 On this day in history death of charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
1886 On January - 26 death of david Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 On this day in history nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies
1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday on January - 26.
1895 On January - 26 arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
1904 On this day in history john P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
1911 On January - 26 charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67
1920 Death of Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered on January - 26.
1922 Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75 on January - 26.
1926 Death of John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University on this day in history.
1932 William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies on January - 26.
1933 On this day in history death of alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 Death of Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard on this day in history.
1942 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83 on this day in history.
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