Notable Deaths on August 26th
August 26th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1278 |
Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle |
1346 |
Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle |
1346 |
Charles II of Alençon, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1297) |
1346 |
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1320) |
1349 |
Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury |
1368 |
Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies |
1486 |
Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45 |
1518 |
Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara |
1551 |
Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516) |
1572 |
Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515) |
1595 |
Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531) |
1616 |
Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66 |
1661 |
Louis Couperin, composer, dies |
1666 |
Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. circa 1580) |
1683 |
Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76 |
1712 |
Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80 |
1714 |
Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632) |
1723 |
Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 |
1770 |
Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, dies at 42 |
1785 |
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716) |
1813 |
Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63 |
1813 |
Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 |
1832 |
Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96 |
1849 |
Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66 |
1850 |
Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773) |
1860 |
Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies at 71 |
1860 |
Friedrich Silcher, Unrated: The Movie |
1863 |
John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies |
1865 |
Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73 |
1865 |
Marcellus Monroe Crocker, US attorney/Union brig-general, dies at 35 |
1869 |
Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54 |
1873 |
Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57 |
1894 |
PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok |
1894 |
Te Wherowhero Tāwhia,the second Māori King (New Zealand) |
1906 |
Eugen Gura, Ein Fest auf Hederlevhuus. Drama in einem Vorspiel und vier Akten |
1908 |
Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837) |
1910 |
William James, American psychologist and philosopher (Pragmatism), dies at 68 |
1912 |
Vedah Bertram, Broncho Billy Outwitted |
1915 |
John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863) |
1921 |
Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies |
1921 |
Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45 |
1921 |
Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies |
1921 |
Ludwig Thoma, Tales of a Young Scamp |
1922 |
Marie de Clermont, Mottige Janus |
1924 |
Eugene Py, La bandera argentina |
1928 |
Colin Campbell, Monte Cristo |
1928 |
Bernhard Lehmann, Episode #1.2015 |
1930 |
Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47 |
1930 |
Elisa Severi, Amleto e il suo clown |
1930 |
Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera |
1933 |
Herbert Reynolds, Being Julia |
1933 |
Alfred Fisher, The Jewelled Dagger of Fate |
1933 |
Ramsey Wallace, The Extra Girl |
1934 |
Atul Prasad Sen, Dekha |
1937 |
Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82 |
1944 |
Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909) |
1944 |
Adam von Trott zu Solz, |
1945 |
Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54 |
1945 |
Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette |
1946 |
Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887) |
1946 |
Jeanie Macpherson, Dynamite |
1947 |
Arthur Rose, The Shop Around the Corner |
1948 |
Oscar L Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50 |
1949 |
Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70 |
1950 |
Giuseppe De Luca, Il cappello di paglia di Firenze |
1950 |
Giuseppe De Luca, Giuseppe De Luca, Singing 'Largo al factotum' from 'The Barber of Seville' |
1951 |
Sherman Kell, College |
1951 |
Ejnar Nathansen, Den moderne Messalina |
1953 |
Heikki Klemetti, The Winter War |
1953 |
Henry Woodward, The Last of the Mohicans |
1955 |
Bob Miller, Utah |
1955 |
James McMahon, House of Wax |
1956 |
Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881) |
1956 |
Alfred Wagenknecht, The Passaic Textile Strike |
1956 |
Florine Hanna, The Dawn Road |
1958 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85 |
1959 |
Sidney Snow, Lost in the Arctic |
1959 |
John O'Malley, The Ballad of Oscar Wilde |
1960 |
Mark Hambourg, composer, dies at 81 |
1960 |
Mark Hambourg, The Common Touch |
1960 |
Percy Abbott, Playlands of Michigan |
1961 |
Vera Michelena, The Devil's Playground |
1961 |
Hampe Faustman, Crime and Punishment |
1962 |
Lajos Gárday, People on the Alps |
1962 |
Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, Episode #1.6 |
1963 |
Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67 |
1966 |
Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67 |
1966 |
Art Baker, Spellbound |
1967 |
Andres Sas, composer, dies at 67 |
1967 |
Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicketkeeper in the 1930's), dies |
1968 |
Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 |
1968 |
Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899) |
1971 |
Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at 88 |
1972 |
Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63 |
1974 |
Charles Lindbergh, US aviator, dies at 72 |
1974 |
John Whitaker, John Wayne Made Me Cry: Our Western Heros |
1975 |
Cullen Landis, entertainer, dies at 80 |
1976 |
Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88 |
1976 |
Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65 |
1976 |
Lotte Lehmann, Big City |
1976 |
Warner Anderson, Destination Moon |
1977 |
HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78 |
1977 |
Heinz Rottger, composer, dies at 67 |
1977 |
Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34 |
1977 |
H.A. Rey, Curious George |
1978 |
Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78 |
1978 |
Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer, dies at 86 |
1978 |
José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916) |
1978 |
Charles Boyer, Gaslight |
1979 |
Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908) |
1979 |
Mika Waltari, The Egyptian |
1979 |
Alvin Carpis, The American Gang Busters |
1979 |
Edward F. Nulty, Three Little Words |
1980 |
Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71 |
1980 |
Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874) |
1980 |
Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908) |
1980 |
Tex Avery, The Woody Woodpecker Show |
1980 |
Miliza Korjus, The Great Waltz |
1980 |
Knox Manning, Meet John Doe |
1980 |
Arthur Weiss, Flipper |
1980 |
George Templeton, Charro! |
1981 |
Lee Hays, rocker, dies of a heart attack |
1981 |
Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97 |
1981 |
Roger Baldwin, Reds |
1981 |
Lee Hays, I'm Not There. |
1982 |
Anna German, Landscape After Battle |
1982 |
Joe Hajos, Le Plaisir |
1982 |
Teresa Izewska, Kanal |
1983 |
Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer |
1983 |
Mike Kellin, Midnight Express |
1983 |
Gertrud Brendler, Spur der Steine |
1983 |
Oscar Ferket, Muziek is schoon |
1983 |
Vitaliy Chetverikov, Chyornaya beryoza |
1983 |
Richard Yriondo, Miss Robin Crusoe |
1984 |
Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67 |
1984 |
Julie Stevens, Caught |
1984 |
Hans Tügel, Septembergewitter |
1985 |
Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76 |
1985 |
Fred Louis Lerch, Liebelei |
1985 |
Rydo Loshak, The Benny Goodman Story |
1985 |
Åke Fridell, The Seventh Seal |
1985 |
Llynn Storer, A Question of Time |
1985 |
Alice Wallis, Kyss henne! |
1985 |
Borka Subaranovic, Miss Stone |
1985 |
Marie Motlová, Hogo fogo Homolka |
1986 |
Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park |
1986 |
Ted Knight, [Tadeus Konopka], actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 62 |
1986 |
William Ulm, King Kong |
1986 |
Ted Knight, Caddyshack |
1986 |
Ljudevit Gerovac, Falinga Imbre Presvetlog |
1987 |
John Goddard, cricketer (West Indian captain 1948-53), dies |
1987 |
Oleg Stukalov, Nicolo Paganini |
1987 |
Pál Horváth, Forró mezök |
1987 |
Robert L. Jacks, The Desert Rats |
1987 |
Jerzy Szmidt, The Conductor |
1988 |
Paul Francis Lloyd, entertainer, dies |
1988 |
Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957) |
1988 |
Fred Peart, Decision 79 |
1988 |
Rudolf Hartmann, Eugen Onegin |
1988 |
Kenneth Seiling, Nice Women |
1988 |
Kitty Doner, A Famous Male Impersonator |
1988 |
Milton Sperling, Battle of the Bulge |
1988 |
Carlos Paião, O Foguete |
1989 |
Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies |
1989 |
Irving Stone, US writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies |
1989 |
Irving Stone, Lust for Life |
1989 |
Wanda Zólkiewska, Story of the Golden Boot |
1989 |
Mauro Duarte, O Homem Nu |
1990 |
Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913) |
1990 |
Retta Scott, Bambi |
1990 |
Izolda Frolova, Tryn-trava |
1991 |
John Palmer, Lawrence of Arabia |
1991 |
Louis Adrian, Peter Pan |
1991 |
Itaco Nardulli, Identification of a Woman |
1991 |
Vera Stroyeva, Boris Godunov |
1992 |
Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies |
1992 |
Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933) |
1992 |
Sammy Timberg, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor |
1992 |
Arturo Martínez, The Hidden One |
1992 |
Bob De Moor, Smidje Smee |
1992 |
Ursula Alexa, Der Beginn |
1992 |
Karel Roden, Chasing the Cat |
1993 |
Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61 |
1993 |
Pierre Forget, Three Colors: Blue |
1993 |
Alf Lassen, Ta' det som en mand, frue! |
1993 |
Reva Shwayder-Gothelf, Young at Heart |
1993 |
Reeder P. Boss, The Informer |
1993 |
Maurie M. Suess, Private Lessons |
1993 |
Jean Carmen, Paroled from the Big House |
1994 |
Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), dies at 54 |
1994 |
Tariq Yunus, Driven to Distraction |
1994 |
Norman Warwick, The Abominable Dr. Phibes |
1994 |
Pershing Gervais, Damn Citizen |
1995 |
David James Moore, educationalist, dies at 62 |
1995 |
Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru, dies at 86 |
1995 |
John Costello, historian, dies at 52 |
1995 |
Omukama Patrick D Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro, dies at 49 |
1995 |
Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer, dies at 57 |
1995 |
Lou Procopio, The Wild Angels |
1995 |
Allen Collins, A Big Hand for the Little Lady |
1995 |
George Alch, Witchboard 2 |
1995 |
Ronnie White, Music and Lyrics |
1996 |
Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77 |
1996 |
Baron Baker, activist, dies at 71 |
1996 |
Catherine Mary Hall, nurse, dies at 73 |
1996 |
Erik Dibbern, Mor bag rattet |
1996 |
Sven Stolpe, General von Döbeln |
1996 |
Mario Mascarelli, Rodjena na Seni |
1996 |
Clair Weeks, Peter Pan |
1996 |
Georges Hardy, The Eurovision Song Contest |
1996 |
Vladimir Erenberg, Hamlet |
1996 |
Jean Aurel, The Hole |
1997 |
Erin Selwyn, Murder Preferred |
1997 |
Marjo Penttala, Eteenpäin - elämään |
1997 |
Hone Glendinning, Crimes at the Dark House |
1997 |
Frances Osborne, The Bank Job |
1997 |
Marcello Aliprandi, Crimson Dawn |
1997 |
Mark Harris, Lenny |
1998 |
Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
1998 |
Michael Samuelson, Loch Ness |
1998 |
Penny Edwards, Missing Women |
1998 |
Wade Dominguez, Dangerous Minds |
1998 |
Ralph Borgwardt, Die Reise nach Sundevit |
1999 |
Vivienne Burgess, Muriel and Sally: Part 2 |
2000 |
Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939) |
2000 |
Renee Orin, Sunshine Again |
2000 |
Wojciech Zukrowski, Speed |
2000 |
Odette Joyeux, La Ronde |
2000 |
Rudolf Golebiowski, ... gdziekolwiek jestes, panie prezydencie... |
2000 |
Billy 'The Eight Ball' Embry, The Disturbance at Dinner |
2000 |
Allen Woody, The Perfect Storm |
2001 |
Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904) |
2001 |
Walter van Canoy, De vrijbrief |
2001 |
Jack O. Bennett, Udet - Der Flieger |
2001 |
Marjorie Zuckswert, The Farmer's Daughter |
2001 |
Carl Caruso, Back That Fact |
2002 |
Robert Van Scoyk, The Priest Killer |
2002 |
Andrew Bowie, Deadlock |
2003 |
Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937) |
2003 |
Hasan Mammadov, Arsin mal alan |
2003 |
Ratomir Vasiljevic, Zona Zamfirova |
2003 |
Bimal Kar, Jadu Bansha |
2003 |
Wayne Andre, Godspell |
2003 |
Wilma Burgess, The Las Vegas Hillbillys |
2003 |
Kathleen Roland, The Monument |
2004 |
Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957) |
2004 |
David Myers, THX 1138 |
2004 |
Matthias Volz, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty |
2004 |
Laura Branigan, Ghostbusters |
2004 |
Lyn Thomas, Space Master X-7 |
2005 |
Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960) |
2005 |
Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927) |
2005 |
Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949) |
2005 |
Anne Baerenz, Mann ist Mann - Auch wenn er im Bett sitzt und hustet |
2005 |
John Finger, Pick a Con... Any Con |
2005 |
Wolfgang Bauer, The Young Unknowns |
2005 |
Adell Sliff, Brother, Ernie |
2005 |
Gerry Fitt, A Sense of Loss |
2006 |
Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924) |
2006 |
Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926) |
2006 |
William Garnett, From Here to There |
2006 |
Heinz Werner Schneider, The Girlfriend |
2006 |
Eoin Hamilton, Aberdeen by Seaside and Deeside |
2006 |
Rainer Barzel, Rainer Barzel |
2006 |
Jerry McCutchin, Kiss the Maiden All Forlorn |
2007 |
Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928) |
2007 |
Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935) |
2007 |
Tuire Orri, Kyläraittien kuningas |
2007 |
Jerry Andrus, Andrus: The Man, the Mind & the Magic |
2007 |
Sanford Green, An Angel Comes to Brooklyn |
2007 |
Sandy Wirth, Forty Guns |
2007 |
Charles Comiskey II, The Story of America's Classic Ballparks |
2007 |
Gaston Thorn, Episode dated 10 September 1975 |
2008 |
Sonic, To Die Like a Man |
2008 |
Michal Docolomanský, Adéla jeste nevecerela |
2008 |
Christian Geissler, Wilhelmsburger Freitag |
2008 |
Herbert Muhammad, The Greatest |
2008 |
Barbara S. Harris, Who Is Julia? |
2008 |
Hazel Warp, Gone with the Wind |
2008 |
Barbara Angely, El tunco Maclovio |
2008 |
Mikhail Kramar, Pervyy paren |
2009 |
Dominick Dunne, American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent (b. 1925) |
2009 |
Sadie Corre, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi |
2009 |
John Hanemann, Trading Places |
2009 |
Dominick Dunne, Dominick Dunne: After the Party |
2009 |
Helen Burnett, Backfire |
2009 |
Ellie Greenwich, Forrest Gump |
2009 |
Lois Barnes, The Best Things in Life Are Free |
2009 |
Marty Murphy, Tom and Jerry: The Movie |
2009 |
Per Christensen, Elling |
2010 |
John Burnside, Birdman of Alcatraz |
2010 |
Ton van Duinhoven, Pa Pinkelman en Tante Pollewop |
2010 |
József Konrád, Episode #1.4 |
2010 |
Raimon Panikkar, Episode #6.154 |
2011 |
George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929) |
2011 |
John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b. 1949) |
2011 |
Sheldon Schrager, The Prince of Tides |
2011 |
Sevinç Aktansel, Passion to You |
2011 |
John McAleese, Sea World Accident |
2011 |
Jordi Vilaseca, Episode #1.8 |
2011 |
Ansano Giannarelli, Elogio di Gaspard Monge fatto da lui stesso |
2012 |
Jacques Bensimon, Richard Rohmer and His Referendum: A View from Quebec |
2012 |
Sergei Krupennikov, The Miracle Voice of Gelsomino |
2012 |
A.K. Hangal, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India |
2012 |
Stéphane Slima, Mina Tannenbaum |
2012 |
Toni D'Alto, The Appointment |
2013 |
Gerard Murphy, Batman Begins |
2013 |
Dmitriy Barkov, Kodenavn: Sysifos - Del 2 |
2013 |
John Kuipers, Haan en fuchsia's |
2013 |
Liliya Tolmacheva, Shumnyy den |
2013 |
Bruce Dunning, Episode dated 1 January 1980 |
2014 |
Ute Herz, Der Club der sieben Fischer |
2014 |
Masakane Yonekura, Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo |
2014 |
Maria Mauban, Journey to Italy |
2014 |
Bryce Dion, Festival |
2014 |
Aleksander Lipowski, Maly western |
2014 |
Chûsei Sone, Tenshi no harawata: Akai kyôshitsu |
2015 |
Tomasz Malinowski, Sto dni |
2015 |
Raymond Chirat, Raymond Chirat, l'oeil et la mémoire |
2015 |
Alison Parker, The Answer |
2015 |
Amelia Boynton, Selma |
2015 |
Peter Kern, Initiation |
2015 |
Adam Ward, |
2015 |
Patrick Kavanagh, Half Moon Street |
2016 |
French Fashion Designer Sonia Rykiel Dies Aged 86 |
2017 |
Drew Morphett, veteran sports broadcaster, dies at 69 |
2017 |
Rich Piana: US bodybuilding champion dies aged 46 after collapse |
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