August 26 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1214 – Michael IV, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1278 – King Otakar II of Bohemia
• 1346 – Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
  • Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
  • Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
  • John of Bohemia (b. 1296)
  • Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
• 1349 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 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)
• 1666 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. c. 1580)
• 1714 – Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
• 1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
• 1785 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
• 1810 – Santiago de Liniers, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
• 1850 – Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
• 1908 – Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
• 1910 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1930 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
• 1944 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1945 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1956 – Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
• 1968 – Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1974 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
• 1978 – Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
• 1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
• 1979 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1981 – Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 – John Goddard, West Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
• 1989 – Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
• 1992 – Bob de Moor, Belgian comics artist (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
• 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)
• 2006 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Dominick Dunne, American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Raimon Panikkar, Catalan philosopher (b. 1918)