Famous Deaths Happened In January - 26

0946  Death of Eadgyth, German Queen on January - 26.   

1109  On this day in history albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies   

1567  Death of Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat on January - 26.   

1630  Death of Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) on this day in history.   

1636  Death of Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) on January - 26.   

1697  Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) on this day in history.   

1706  Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1744  Death of Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) on this day in history.   

1750  Death of Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) on this day in history.   

1795  On this day in history johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62   

1798  On this day in history christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49   

1799  On this day in history death of gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)   

1803  Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history death of edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)   

1824  Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies on January - 26.   

1849  On January - 26 death of thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45   

1850  On January - 26 francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies   

1855  On January - 26 death of gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)   

1869  On this day in history death of duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)   

1870  Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1885  Death of Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51 on this day in history.   

1886  Death of David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807) on this day in history.   

1891  On January - 26 nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies   

1893  On this day in history abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday   

1895  On January - 26 arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies   

1904  John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 on January - 26.   

1911  On January - 26 charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67   

1920  Death of Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered on this day in history.   

1922  On January - 26 luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75   

1926  Death of John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University on January - 26.   

1932  William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies on January - 26.   

1933  Death of Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853) on January - 26.   

1939  On January - 26 death of armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard   

1942  On this day in history gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83   

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1497  On January - 26 birth of emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)   

1541  Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596) was born on this day in history.   

1613  Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer was born on this day in history.   

1667  Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on this day in history.   

1708  William Hayes, composer was born on this day in history.   

1714  On this day in history birth of jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage)   

1715  On January - 26 birth of claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher   

1716  George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville was born on January - 26.