Famous Deaths In July - 26

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on July - 26.   

0811  Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle on July - 26.   

1342  Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies on July - 26.   

1380  On July - 26 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 July - 26.   

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 July - 26.   

1611  On July - 26 death of horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)   

1630  On this day in history charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies   

1677  On this day in history michael Franck, composer, dies at 68   

1680  On this day in history john Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies   

1684  On July - 26 death of elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)   

1712  On July - 26 thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80   

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  John Friend, physician/politician, dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1836  Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1863  Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1867  On this day in history death of king Otto of Greece (b. 1815)   

1872  Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84 on July - 26.   

1881  On July - 26 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  On this day in history gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52   

1918  On July - 26 eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies   

1919  Death of Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) on July - 26.   

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

1925  William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65 on July - 26.   

1935  Death of Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871) on this day in history.   

1941  On this day in history benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies   

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1030  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079) was born on July - 26.   

1467  Ferdinand II, King of Naples was born on this day in history.   

1678  On July - 26 birth of joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)   

1694  Johann Samuel Endler, composer was born on July - 26.   

1739  George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12) was born on July - 26.   

1782  John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes) was born on this day in history.   

1791  Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM was born on this day in history.   

1796  On this day in history birth of george Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)