Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

Famous Deaths on 26 Oct

1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895)
1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
1962 - Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
1978 - Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
1997 - Joe Cinque, Civil Engineer (b 1978)
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)