July 26
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[change] Births
- 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer
- 1875 - Carl Jung
- 1894 - Aldous Huxley
- 1928 - Stanley Kubrick
- 1957 - Nana Visitor
- 1954 - James Bancroft
[change] Deaths
- 456 - 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)
- 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)
