On this day: 26 November
Events, births and deaths on 26 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · Wang Fuk Court fire
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Fritz Weaver
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · John Browning
- Births · Gregorio Conrado Álvarez
- Deaths · Ernest Belfort Bax
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 19
- 1161(Julian date)Battle of Caishi — 1161 battle during the Jin-Song wars
- 1805Pontcysyllte Aqueduct — navigable aqueduct in Wales
- 1812Battle of Berezina — 1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
- 1835Grass Fight — 1835 battle during the Texas Revolution
- 1842University of Notre Dame — Catholic university located in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
- 1865Battle of Papudo — 1865 naval battle of the Chincha Islands War
- 1917
- 1924Mongolian People's Republic — 1924–1992 communist republic in East Asia
- 1939Shelling of Mainila — military incident staged by the Soviet Union used to justify the Winter War
- 1940Jilava massacre — 1940 massacre in Romania
- 1977Southern Television broadcast interruption — Hoax transmission from IBA transmitter
- 1979PIA Flight 740 — Aviation accident
- 1983Brink's-MAT robbery — 1983 robbery in London, England
- 1998Khanna rail disaster — 1998 train collision near Khanna, Punjab, India
- 200826/11 Mumbai attacks — Islamist terror attacks in India
- 20112011 NATO attack in Pakistan — Afghanistan-Pakistan border dispute with Afghanistan on NATO's side
- 20192019 Albania earthquake — seismic event on 26 November 2019
- 2022
- 2025Wang Fuk Court fire — apartment fire in Hong Kong on 26 November 2025
Births · 60
- 1288(Julian date)Go-Daigo — 96th emperor of Japan (r. 1318–1339)
- 1552Seonjo of Joseon — 14th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- 1607John Harvard — English-American clergyman and philanthropist (1607-1638)
- 1731William Cowper — English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
- 1792Sarah Grimké — American abolitionist (1792–1873)
- 1817Charles Adolphe Wurtz — French chemist (1817–1884)
- 1827Ellen G. White — American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)
- 1832Mary Edwards Walker — American feminist and doctor (1832–1919)
- 1847Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) — Empress consort of Russia (1847–1928)
- 1857Ferdinand de Saussure — Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
- 1869Maud of Wales — British princess (1869–1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
- 1876Willis Carrier — American inventor (1876–1950)
- 1885Heinrich Brüning — German chancellor (1885-1970)
- 1894Norbert Wiener — American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
- 1898Karl Ziegler — German chemist (1898–1973)
- 1903Alice Herz-Sommer — British Jewish pianist and music teacher from Bohemia
- 1909Eugène Ionesco — Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
- 1911Samuel Reshevsky — American chess player
- 1918Patricio Aylwin — Chilean politician and former president (1918–2016)
- 1919Frederik Pohl — American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013)
- 1919Ryszard Kaczorowski — Polish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile (1919–2010)
- 1921Françoise Gilot — French painter, art critic, writer and beloved of Pablo Picasso (1921–2023)
- 1922Charles M. Schulz — American cartoonist, comics writer, comic book artist
- 1931Adolfo Pérez Esquivel — Argentine activist, architect and sculptor
- 1937Boris Borisovich Yegorov — Soviet cosmonaut (1937–1994)
Deaths · 60
- 1236(Julian date)Al-Aziz Muhammad — Ayyubid emir of Aleppo 1216-1236
- 1267(Julian date)Sylvester Gozzolini — Founder of the Sylvestrines
- 1504(Julian date)Isabella I of Castile — queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
- 1651Henry Ireton — English politician (1611-1651)
- 1688Philippe Quinault — French opera librettist
- 1717Daniel Purcell — English composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell
- 1780James Steuart — Scottish economist
- 1836John Loudon McAdam — Scottish engineer and road-builder (1756–1836)
- 1851Jean-de-Dieu Soult — Prime Minister of France (1832–1834, 1834–1839, 1840–1847) and French Marshal (born 1769–1851)
- 1855Adam Mickiewicz — Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist (1798-1855)
- 1857Joseph von Eichendorff — German poet and novelist (1788-1857)
- 1872Pavel Kiselyov — Russian noble and general (1788–1872)
- 1883Sojourner Truth — abolitionist and African-American activist for women's rights (1797–1883)
- 1885Thomas Andrews — Irish chemist and physicist (1813–1885)
- 1892Charles Lavigerie — Catholic cardinal (1825-1892)
- 1895George Edward Dobson — Irish zoologist (1848-1895)
- 1896Benjamin Apthorp Gould — American astronomer (1824–1896)
- 1896Coventry Patmore — English poet (1823–1896)
- 1912Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1917Elsie Inglis — Scottish doctor
- 1926John Browning — firearms designer of the United States (1855-1926)
- 1926Ernest Belfort Bax — British barrister and journalist (1854–1926)
- 1928Reinhard Scheer — German admiral (1863-1928)
- 1934Mykhailo Hrushevskyi — Ukrainian politician and historian (1866–1934)
- 1937Silvestras Žukauskas — General of the Lithuanian Army (1860–1937)
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