General Events and Observations of July 26

796: Offa, King of Mercia
811: Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
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 (suicide) (b. 1923)
1980: Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1984: Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1984: George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
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: Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
1995: Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
2000: John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001: Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2001: Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2005: Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005: Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005: Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2005: Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
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)

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