Famous Deaths In July - 26

0796  Death of Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) on July - 26.   

0811  Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle on July - 26.   

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 this day in history.   

1533  Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies on July - 26.   

1541  On this day in history death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima   

1592  On this day in history death of armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)   

1611  Death of Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542) on July - 26.   

1630  Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies on July - 26.   

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  Death of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646) on this day in history.   

1712  Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1719  On July - 26 johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43   

1723  On this day in history death of robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)   

1728  John Friend, physician/politician, dies on this day in history.   

1770  Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1801  Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1826  Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 on July - 26.   

1836  On July - 26 jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45   

1863  Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1867  On July - 26 death of king Otto of Greece (b. 1815)   

1872  On July - 26 michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84   

1881  On July - 26 george Borrow, writer, dies   

1910  Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71 on July - 26.   

1915  James Murray, philologist, dies on this day in history.   

1916  Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies   

1919  On July - 26 death of sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)   

1920  On this day in history carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83   

1925  William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1935  Death of Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871) on July - 26.   

1941  On July - 26 benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies   

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1030  On July - 26 birth of stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)   

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

1678  On July - 26 birth of joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)   

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

1739  George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12) was born on this day in history.   

1782  John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes) was born on this day in history.   

1791  On July - 26 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.