What happened on July 26 ?
Deaths
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)
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 - 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)
1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)
1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
1969 - Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1971 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923)
1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1992 - Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
US - Aunt and Uncle's Day
Cuba - Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack Day (1953), Revolution Day
Liberia - Independence Day
Maldives - Independence Day
India - Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War)
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 2 saints: St. Anne (mother of St. Mary)
St. Germain
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