Famous Deaths on 26 Jan

Famous Deaths on 26 Jan

1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)
1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)
1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)
1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)
1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, (b. 1906)
1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
1973 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)
1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)
1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1993 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (b. 1912)
1996 - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
1996 - Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (b. 1932)
1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
1996 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)
2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2008 - Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b 1958)
946 - Eadgyth, German Queen