October 26 - Deaths

Deaths

• 899 – Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849)
• 1235 – King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
• 1440 – Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404)
• 1633 – Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
• 1671 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
• 1675 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
• 1679 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
• 1686 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
• 1717 – Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
• 1751 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
• 1764 – William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
• 1773 – Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
• 1803 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
• 1806 – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
• 1817 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
• 1864 – "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
• 1866 – John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
• 1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826)
• 1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
• 1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815)
• 1909 – Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
• 1930 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
• 1931 – Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
• 1937 – Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
• 1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
• 1943 – Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
• 1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
• 1944 – William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
• 1945 – Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
• 1946 – Ioannis Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
• 1949 – Lionel Halsey, British Royal Navy officer and courtier (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (b. 1895)
• 1957 – Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
• 1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
• 1962 – Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand paediatrician (b. 1879)
• 1965 – Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
• 1966 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
• 1971 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Bidia Dandaron, Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR (b. 1914)
• 1978 – Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
• 1984 – Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Oro, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1971)
• 1994 – Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Joe Cinque, Australian civil engineer murdered by Anu Singh (b. 1978)
• 1999 – Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Movsar Barayev, Chechen terrorist (b. 1979)
• 2002 – Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Bobby Avila, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist (b. 1958)
• 2005 – George Swindin, English football player manager (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Tillman Franks, American songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-American TV chef (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Delmar Watson, American child actor (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Teel Bivins, American politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – George Na'ope, American musician (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Glen "Frosty" Little, American circus clown (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Mbah Maridjan, Mount Merapi gatekeeper (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)