Famous Deaths Happened In January - 26
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
0946 On January - 26 death of eadgyth, German Queen
1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on January - 26.
1567 Death of Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on this day in history.
1630 On this day in history death of henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 On this day in history death of jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) on this day in history.
1706 Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on January - 26.
1744 Death of Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) on this day in history.
1750 Death of Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) on January - 26.
1795 On this day in history johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
1798 On this day in history christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49
1799 Death of Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722) on this day in history.
1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1823 Death of Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) on January - 26.
1824 Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on January - 26.
1849 Death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 on this day in history.
1850 On January - 26 francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies
1855 Death of Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) on January - 26.
1869 On this day in history death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 on January - 26.
1885 Death of Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51 on this day in history.
1886 Death of David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807) on this day in history.
1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies on January - 26.
1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday on this day in history.
1895 On January - 26 arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
1904 On January - 26 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 On January - 26 death of matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
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 January - 26 death of alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 On January - 26 death of armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1942 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83 on this day in history.
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