What happened on September 26 ?

1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)

1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)

1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)

1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)

1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)

1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)

1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer (b. 1754)

1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)

1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)

1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)

1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)

1937 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)

1945 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)

1947 - Hugh Lofting, British writer (b. 1886)

1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)

1952 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)

1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)

1972 - Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)

1973 - Ralph Earnhardt, Race car driver (b. 1923)

1976 - Lavoslav Ru?i?ka, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

1984 - John Facenda, American broadcaster and sports announcer (b. 1913)

1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)

2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)

2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)

2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)

Calendar of Saints - Sts. Cosmas and Damian

Also see September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Discordianism - Bureflux

European Day of Languages

French Republican Calendar - Cheval (Horse) Day, fifth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

BBC: On This Day