On this day: 26 September
Events, births and deaths on 26 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Menzies Campbell
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Julie London
- Births · Manfred Mayrhofer
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 931 · Births · Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
Events · 24
- 715(Julian date)Battle of Compiègne — 0715 battle
- 1142(Julian date)Siege of Oxford — siege which took place in 1142
- 1143(Julian date)1143 papal election — 1143 election of the Catholic pope
- 1212(Julian date)
- 1345(Julian date)Battle of Warns — 1345 battle of the Friso-Hollandic Wars
- 1371Battle of Maritsa — battle that took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen on September 26, 1371
- 1423Battle of La Brossinière — 1423 battle during the Hundred Years' War
- 1789United States Attorney General — head of the United States Department of Justice
- 1815Holy Alliance — military alliance
- 1917Battle of Polygon Wood — 1917 battle during the second phase of the Third battle of Ypres in World War I
- 1918Meuse-Argonne Offensive — 1918 military campaign by the Allies during World War I
- 1919Battle of Perehonivka — 1919 battle in the Russian Civil War
- 1944Tallinn Offensive — 1944 military offensive
- 1980Oktoberfest terror attack — terror attack in Munich, Germany
- 19831983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident — incident which nearly precipitated nuclear warfare
- 1985
- 19921992 Nigerian Air Force C-130 crash — 1992 plane crash
- 19941994 Vanavara air disaster — 1994 plane crash in Russia
- 1997Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 — Aviation accident
- 19971997 Umbria and Marche earthquake — September 1997 earthquakes in Italy
- 20142014 Iguala mass kidnapping — mass kidnapping in Mexico
- 20212021 Swiss same-sex marriage referendum — 26 September 2021 national referendum in Switzerland
- 2021
- 2022Izhevsk school shooting — 2022 school shooting in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia
Births · 60
- 931(Julian date)Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah — 4th Caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (r. 953–975)
- 1774Johnny Appleseed — American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)
- 1791Théodore Géricault — French painter (1791–1824)
- 1820Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar — Philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist (1820-1891)
- 1830Ōkubo Toshimichi — one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan (1830-1878)
- 1849Ivan Pavlov — Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
- 1869(Julian date)Komitas — Ottoman Armenian priest, musicologist, composer and vardapet (1869–1935)
- 1870Christian X of Denmark — King of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944)
- 1874Lewis Hine — American sociologist and photographer (1874–1940)
- 1877Alfred Cortot — Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor
- 1886Archibald Hill — English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
- 1888T. S. Eliot — US-British poet (1888–1965)
- 1889Martin Heidegger — German philosopher (1889–1976)
- 1891Hans Reichenbach — German–American philosopher
- 1897Paul VI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 (1897–1978)
- 1898George Gershwin — American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
- 1901George Raft — American actor (1895–1980)
- 1907Anthony Blunt — British art historian and Soviet spy (1907-1983)
- 1914Achille Compagnoni — Italian mountain climber and skier (1914-2009)
- 1919Matilde Camus — Spanish poet (1919–2012)
- 1923Dev Anand — Indian actor, producer, director
- 1926Julie London — American actress and singer (1926-2000)
- 1927Enzo Bearzot — Italian football player and manager (1927–2010)
- 1932Manmohan Singh — Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
- 1932Vladimir Voinovich — Soviet Russian writer and dissident (1932–2018)
Deaths · 60
- 1241(Julian date)Fujiwara no Teika — poet and court noble (1162–1241)
- 1328(Julian date)Ibn Taymiyyah — Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher (1263–1328)
- 1345(Julian date)William II of Hainaut — Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland
- 1371Uglješa Mrnjavčević — noble
- 1417(Julian date)Francesco Zabarella — Italian cardinal
- 1468(Julian date)Juan de Torquemada — spansich Dominican and cardinal (1388-1468)
- 1620Taichang Emperor — 15th Emperor of the Ming dynasty
- 1626Wakizaka Yasuharu — Japanese Daimyo
- 1764Benito Jerónimo Feijoo — Spanish monk and scholar
- 1802Jurij Vega — Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (1754-1802)
- 1820Daniel Boone — American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)
- 1825José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, Marquis of Torre Tagle — Peruvian politician (1779-1825)
- 1841Gong Zizhen — Poet and calligrapher
- 1846Thomas Clarkson — English abolitionist (1760-1846)
- 1868August Ferdinand Möbius — German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
- 1877Hermann Grassmann — German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
- 1887José María Montealegre — President of Costa Rica (1815-1887)
- 1902Levi Strauss — German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)
- 1904Lafcadio Hearn — Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West (1850–1904)
- 1910Thorvald N. Thiele — Danish astronomer (1838–1910)
- 1932Pierre De Geyter — Belgian composer (1848–1932)
- 1937Bessie Smith — American blues singer (1892–1937)
- 1945Béla Bartók — Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)
- 1946Hong Sa-ik — Japanese general (1889–1946)
- 1947Hugh Lofting — British author (1886–1947)
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