May 26 - Deaths

Deaths

• 451 – Vartan Mamikonian, Armenian warrior
• 604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Benedictine monk, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury
• 735 – Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 673)
• 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic Shia Imam (b. 766)
• 946 – Edmund I of England (b. 921)
• 1055 – Adalbert, Margrave of Austria (b. 985)
• 1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
• 1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1447)
• 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet (b. 1498)
• 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian priest (b. 1515)
• 1647 – Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
• 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
• 1651 – Jeane Gardiner, English woman executed for witchcraft
• 1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
• 1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
• 1685 – Charles II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
• 1703 – Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and civil servant (b. 1633)
• 1742 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian 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 Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785)
• 1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
• 1831 – Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
• 1840 – Sidney Smith, English admiral (b. 1764)
• 1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
• 1883 – Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian politician and military leader (b. 1808)
• 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
• 1902 – Almon Brown Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
• 1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious figure, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 – Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer, cellist, and conductor, founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1933 – Horatio Bottomley, English financier and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner, co-founder of Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
• 1943 – Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1943 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer, organist, and educator (b. 1864)
• 1944 – Christian Wirth, German police and SS officer (b. 1885)
• 1948 – Theodor Morell, German nazi physician (b. 1886)
• 1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
• 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (b. 1900)
• 1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1959 – Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1966 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1968 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1969 – Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation pioneer and engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Juan Maino, Chilean photographer and activist, leader of the Popular Unitary Action Movement
• 1977 – William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
• 1978 – Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 – George Brent, English actor (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Don Revie, English footballer (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
• 2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Moven Mahachi, Zimbabwean politician (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 – Leslie Smith, English businessman, co-founder of Lesney Products (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Jack Edward Oliver, English cartoonist and writer (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian cyclist (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Stanley Chapman, English architect, designer, translator, and writer (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (b. 1941)
• 2009 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Christopher Moran, English air marshal (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Kieran Phelan, Irish politician (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Jarvis Williams, American football player (b. 1965)
• 2011 – Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Orhan Boran, Turkish actor and comedian (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Arthur Decabooter, Belgian cyclist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Leo Dillon, American artist (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Rudy Eugene, American criminal and cannibal (b. 1981)
• 2012 – Stephen Healey, English army officer (b. 1982)
• 2012 – Hiroshi Miyazawa, Japanese politician (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Roy Wilson, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson) (b. 1940)