26 August Deaths

August 26 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

787 – Arechis II, duke of Benevento
887 – Kōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 830)
1214 – Michael IV of Constantinople
1278 – Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)
1346 – Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)
1346 – Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)
1346 – Louis II, Count of Blois
1346 – Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1346 – John of Bohemia (b. 1296)
1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)
1462 – Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
1486 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)
1500 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)
1551 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 – Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)
1595 – António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)
1666 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)
1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)
1714 – Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)
1723 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
1810 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
1813 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
1850 – Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
1878 – Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)
1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
1921 – Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
1930 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1943 – Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)
1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
1966 – W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
1968 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)
1972 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
1975 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
1977 – H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
1978 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
1979 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
1980 – Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1981 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987 – John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
1993 – Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)
1995 – John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)
1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
2001 – Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
2003 – Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1952)
2005 – Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1960)
2005 – Robert Denning, American art collector and interior designer (b. 1927)
2005 – Moondog King, Canadian wrestler and politician (b. 1949)
2006 – Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1924)
2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926)
2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
2009 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (b. 1925)
2010 – Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)
2011 – George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)
2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
2011 – John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)
2012 – Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (b. 1929)
2012 – Reginald Bartholomew, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1936)
2012 – Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (b. 1943)
2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940)
2013 – Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)
2013 – John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
2013 – Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
2013 – Jack Sinagra, American lawyer and politician (b. 1950)
2013 – Clyde A. Wheeler, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)
2014 – Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)
2014 – Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950)
2014 – Caroline Kellett, English journalist (b. 1960)
2014 – Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2015 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (b. 1911)
2015 – Donald Eric Capps, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939)
2015 – P. J. Kavanagh, English poet and author (b. 1931)
2015 – Stefanos Manikas, Greek politician (b. 1952)
2015 – Francisco San Diego, Filipino bishop (b. 1935)

Source: wikipedia