What happened on May 26 ?

604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury

818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)

946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921)

1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria

1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)

1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan

1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet

1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)

1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)

1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)

1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)

1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)

1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)

1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)

1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)

1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)

1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)

1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)

1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)

1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)

1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)

1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)

1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)

1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)

1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)

1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)

1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)

1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)

1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)

1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)

1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)

1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)

1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)

1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)

1968 - Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937)

1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)

1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)

1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)

1979 - George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)

1995 - Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)

1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)

1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)

2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)

2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)

2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)

2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)

2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1934)

2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)

2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1928)

2006 - ÿdouard Michelin , CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)

2006 - C. H. Patterson, American Psychologist (b. 1912)