Famous Deaths Happened In July - 26

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on this day in history.   

0811  On July - 26 nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle   

1342  On July - 26 charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies   

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 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 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 July - 26 michael Franck, composer, dies at 68   

1680  On this day in history 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  On July - 26 thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80   

1719  Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.   

1723  On July - 26 death of robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)   

1728  On July - 26 john Friend, physician/politician, dies   

1770  Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65 on July - 26.   

1801  Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86 on July - 26.   

1826  Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1836  Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45 on July - 26.   

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 this day in history michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84   

1881  George Borrow, writer, dies on this day in history.   

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  Death of Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) on this day in history.   

1920  On July - 26 carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83   

1925  On July - 26 william Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65   

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

1467  Ferdinand II, King of Naples was born on July - 26.   

1678  On this day in history birth of joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)   

1694  On July - 26 birth of johann Samuel Endler, composer   

1739  On July - 26 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  George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) was born on this day in history.