May 26 - Deaths

Deaths

• 604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
• 946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
• 1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
• 1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
• 1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
• 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
• 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
• 1647 – Alse Young, American "witch"
• 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
• 1651 – Jeane Gardiner, British woman executed for witchcraft
• 1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
• 1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
• 1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
• 1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
• 1742 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
• 1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
• 1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
• 1818 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
• 1818 – Manuel Rodríguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile (b. 1785)
• 1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
• 1831 – Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
• 1840 – Sidney Smith, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1764)
• 1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
• 1883 – Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
• 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
• 1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1907 – Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
• 1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
• 1914 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and social reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
• 1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
• 1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
• 1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
• 1943 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (b. 1864)
• 1944 – Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp (b. 1885)
• 1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
• 1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
• 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
• 1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1918)
• 1966 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1968 – Little Willie John, American singer (b. 1937)
• 1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
• 1969 – Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
• 1977 – William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
• 1978 – Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
• 2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
• 2007 – J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian road cyclist (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (b. 1941)
• 2009 – Peter Zezel, Canadian professional hockey player (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Christopher Moran, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Kieran Phelan, Irish senator (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Jarvis Williams, American football player (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Matt Hughes, Meteorologist (b. 1979)