What happened on October 26 ?

899 - Alfred the Great

1235 - Andrew II, king of Hungary (b. 1175)

1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)

1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)

1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)

1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)

1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)

1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England

1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)

1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)

1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)

1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)

1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)

1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)

1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)

1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)

1909 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (assassinated) (b. 1841)

1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)

1937 - Józef Dowbór-Mu?nicki, Polish general, commander of the Greater Poland Uprising (b.1867)

1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (killed in combat) (b. 1904)

1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)

1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)

1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)

1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)

1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer (b. 1895)

1956 - Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)

1957 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)

1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)

1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)

1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)

1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-born inventor (b. 1889)

1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)

1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)

1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)

1999 - Hoyt Axton, American musician (b. 1938)

2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)

2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen terrorist