On this day: 26 July
Events, births and deaths on 26 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tom Lehrer
10 years ago2016
- Events · Sagamihara stabbings
- Deaths · Solomon Feferman
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Robert Todd Lincoln
- Births · James Best
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1030 · Births · Stanislaus of Szczepanów
- 990 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Kaneie
Events · 33
- 811(Julian date)Battle of Pliska — battle
- 920(Julian date)Battle of Valdejunquera — middle ages battle
- 1184(Julian date)Erfurt latrine disaster — 12th-century accident in the Holy Roman Empire
- 1581(Julian date)Dutch Republic — predecessor state of the Netherlands (1581–1795)
- 1581(Julian date)Act of Abjuration — declaration of independence by many of the provinces of the Netherlands from the allegiance to Philip II of Spain, during the Dutch Revolt
- 1757Battle of Hastenbeck — 1757 battle
- 1788New York — state of the United States of America
- 1814Swedish-Norwegian War 1814 — war fought between Sweden and Norway
- 1822(Julian date)Battle of Dervenakia — 1822 battle in the Greek War of Independence
- 1822Guayaquil Conference — meeting between Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín
- 1830July Revolution — July 1830 revolution in France
- 1887Esperanto — international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
- 1890Revolution of the Park — uprising in Argentina on July 26, 1890
- 1897Siege of Malakand — 1897 siege of a British garrison by Afghan tribesmen
- 1908Federal Bureau of Investigation — U.S. federal law enforcement agency
- 1945Potsdam Declaration — document defining the terms for Japanese surrender during World War II
- 1945Attlee ministry — UK government, 1945–1951
- 1948Executive Order 9981 — Truman's executive order that began racial integration of the US armed forces; item in the National Archives and Records Administration's holdings
- 1953Cuban Revolution — revolution in Cuba starting in 1953 culminating in 1959
- 1953Attack on the Moncada Barracks — Attack of the Cuban revolutionary movement against the government of Fulgencio Batista at the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953
- 1953Battle of the Samichon River — 1953 Korean War battle
- 1953Short Creek raid — 1953 mass arrest in Arizona, United States
- 19631963 Skopje earthquake — July 1963 Earthquake in SR Macedonia, Yugoslavia
- 1965Maldives — sovereign state in South Asia, situated on an archipelago in the Arabian Sea
- 1990Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 — American law
- 1993Asiana Airlines Flight 733 — aviation accident
- 20082008 Ahmedabad blasts — 2008 terror attacks by Mujahideen in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- 20092009 Boko Haram uprising — 2009 conflicts between police and Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria
- 20112011 Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash — aviation accident
- 2012New Irish Republican Army — dissident Republican paramilitary group which denied agreement that ended 'Troubles' and continued militant resistance
- 2016Sagamihara stabbings — mass murder committed in 2016 at a residential facility for people with severe intellectual disabilities in Japan
- 20192019 Pan American Games — 18th edition of the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru
- 20242024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony — 2024 commencement of the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Births · 60
- 1030(Julian date)Stanislaus of Szczepanów — Polish Catholic bishop, saint, the principal patron of Poland (1030-1079)
- 1678Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor — Emperor from 1705 till his death in 1711
- 1739George Clinton — vice president of the United States of America from 1805 to 1812 (1739–1812)
- 1782John Field — Irish pianist, composer, and teacher
- 1791Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart — Austrian composer, teacher and performer; youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791-1844)
- 1796George Catlin — American painter (1796-1872)
- 1829Auguste Beernaert — Belgian prime minister and human rights activist (1829-1912)
- 1842Alfred Marshall — British economist (1842–1924)
- 1855Ferdinand Tönnies — German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
- 1856George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
- 1865Philipp Scheidemann — German politician (1865-1939)
- 1874Serge Koussevitzky — Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist (1874–1951)
- 1875Carl Jung — Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
- 1875Antonio Machado — Spanish poet and essayist (1875–1939)
- 1885André Maurois — French author (1885–1967)
- 1893George Grosz — German artist (1893–1959)
- 1894Aldous Huxley — English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
- 1895Gracie Allen — American actress and entertainer (1896–1964)
- 1919James Lovelock — English scientist (1919–2022)
- 1922Jason Robards — American actor (1922–2000)
- 1922Blake Edwards — American film director, screenwriter and producer (1922-2010)
- 1925Ana María Matute — Spanish writer
- 1928Stanley Kubrick — American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999)
- 1928Francesco Cossiga — 8th President of Italy (1928-2010)
- 1928Joe Jackson (talent manager) — American music manager, father of the Jackson family (1928–2018)
Deaths · 60
- 146(Julian date)Emperor Zhi of Han — Emperor of the Han dynasty from 145 to 146
- 342Emperor Cheng of Jin — emperor of the Jin Dynasty (265–420) (321-342)
- 811(Julian date)Nikephoros I — Byzantine emperor
- 1380(Julian date)Emperor Kōmyō — Emperor of Japan
- 1471(Julian date)Paul II — pope of the Catholic Church from 1464 to 1471
- 1533(Julian date)Atahualpa — Last Incan emperor
- 1630Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy — duke of Savoy
- 1680John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester — English poet, and peer of the realm (1647-1680)
- 1684Elena Cornaro Piscopia — Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)
- 1693Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark — queen consort of Sweden (1656–1693)
- 1712Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds — English statesman (1632-1712)
- 1863Sam Houston — American statesman, politician, and soldier (1793-1863)
- 1863John J. Crittenden — U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky (1787-1863)
- 1867Otto of Greece — King of Greece from 1832 to 1862 (1815–1867)
- 1899Ulises Heureaux — President of the Dominican Republic (1845-1898)
- 1915James Murray — British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837–1915)
- 1919Edward Poynter — British artist (1836–1919)
- 1924William Robert Ogilvie-Grant — Scottish ornithologist (1863-1924)
- 1925Gottlob Frege — German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
- 1925William Jennings Bryan — American politician (1860–1925)
- 1925Antonio Ascari — racecar driver (1888–1925)
- 1926Robert Todd Lincoln — Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War (1843–1926)
- 1934Winsor McCay — American cartoonist and animator
- 1941Henri Lebesgue — French mathematician (1875–1941)
- 1942Roberto Arlt — Argentine writer
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