What happened on January 26 ?

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)

1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)

1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor, physician, and scientist (b. 1806)

1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)

1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)

1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)

1893 - Abner Doubleday, American general and inventor of baseball (b. 1819)

1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)

1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)

1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)

1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (plane crash) (b. 1898)

1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne (b. 1906)

1952 - Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)

1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)

1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)

1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher, and aviation promoter (b. 1883)

1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet and critic (b. 1900)

1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)

1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)

1983 - Stjefen Kolcaj, American-Albanian Artist (b. 1913)

1984 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)

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)

1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)

1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)

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, Russian 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)