Famous Deaths on 26 Jul

Famous Deaths on 26 Jul

1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
1684 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1863 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1925 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1925 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
1932 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)
1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1941 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1952 - Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina and wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)
1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
1960 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1964 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1969 - Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1970 - Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1971 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
1980 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1984 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952)
1992 - Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
1993 - Matthew Ridgeway, American army general (b. 1895)
1995 - George Romney, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
1995 - Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1995 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
2000 - John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2001 - Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2005 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 - Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 - John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2007 - Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
796 - Offa, King of Mercia
811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)