July 26
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July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanow, Polish bishop and martyr (d. 1074)
- 1575 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
- 1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
- 1739 – George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States and 1st State Governor of New York (d. 1812)
- 1756 – Maria Fitzherbert, first wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
- 1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844)
- 1802 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
- 1829 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman and 14th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1912)
- 1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1950)
- 1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939)
- 1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
- 1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
- 1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
- 1882 – Dixie Bibb Graves, American politician and United States Senator for Alabama (d. 1965)
- 1893 – George Grosz, German painter (d. 1959)
- 1894 – Aldous Huxley, British writer (d. 1963)
- 1895 – Jane Bunford, UK's tallest woman (d. 1922)
- 1895 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (d. 1964)
- 1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
- 1914 – Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993)
- 1914 – C. Farris Bryant, 34th Governor of Florida (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Bertil Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1998)
- 1918 – Marjorie Lord, American actress
- 1919 – James Lovelock, British scientist
- 1922 – Blake Edwards, American movie director (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Jan Berenstain, American author (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Biff Elliot, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-born Swedish doctor and politician (d. 2000)
- 1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani poet (d. 1980)
- 1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian pianist (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson musical family
- 1939 – John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1940 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
- 1942 – Vladimir Meciar, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
- 1943 – Mick Jagger, British musician
- 1945 – Helen Mirren, British actress
- 1945 – Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Greek jurist
- 1946 – Erwin Huber, German politician
- 1949 – Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai politician
- 1949 – Roger Taylor, British musician (Queen)
- 1950 – Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1951 – Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
- 1953 – Felix Magath, German footballer
- 1954 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
- 1955 – Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan
- 1955 – Aleksandrs Starkovs, Latvian footballer
- 1956 – Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
- 1957 – Nana Visitor, American actress
- 1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
- 1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress
- 1966 – Angelo Di Livio, Italian footballer
- 1969 – Tanni Grey-Thompson, British wheelchair athlete
- 1971 – Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (d. 1995)
- 1973 – Kate Beckinsale, British actress
- 1976 – Pavel Pardo, Mexican footballer
- 1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
- 1981 – Maicon Douglas Sisenando, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Gael Clichy, French footballer
- 1987 – Fredy Montero, Colombian footballer
- 1988 – Sayaka Akimoto, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
- 1993 – Elizabeth Gillies, American actress and singer
- 1993 – Taylor Momsen, American actress and singer
Deaths [change]
- 342 – Jin Chengdi, Emperor of China (b. 321)
- 796 – Offa, King of Mercia
- 811 – Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
- 1380 – Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
- 1471 – Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
- 1506 – Anne of Foix-Candale, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1478)
- 1533 – Atahualpa, Inca ruler (b. 1502)
- 1592 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
- 1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
- 1630 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
- 1680 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
- 1712 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
- 1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
- 1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
- 1863 – Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
- 1867 – King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
- 1915 – James Murray, English philologist (b. 1837)
- 1919 – Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
- 1925 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
- 1925 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
- 1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
- 1935 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
- 1942 – Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
- 1944 – Reza Shah, ruler of Iran (b. 1878)
- 1952 – Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919)
- 1953 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
- 1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala
- 1969 – Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
- 1971 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923)
- 1976 – Stefanos Natsinas, Greek politician (b. 1910)
- 1980 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
- 1984 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
- 1986 – Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
- 1988 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
- 1992 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Phaedon Gizikis, President of Greece (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Mario David, Italian footballer (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b. 1919)
- 2011 – Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese science fiction writer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942)
Events [change]
- 615 – K'inich Janaab' Pakal I, aged 12, is crowned ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque.
- 1309 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is recognised as King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
- 1469 – Wars of the Roses: Forces of Edward IV of England defeat those of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick in the Battle of Edgecote Moor.
- 1533 – Atahualpa dies at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Conquistadors, marking the end of the Inca Empire.
- 1745 – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place in Guildford, Surrey, England.
- 1775 – Benjamin Franklin is named Postmaster-General by the United States Congress.
- 1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution, becoming the 11th State.
- 1805 – An earthquake in central Italy kills an estimated 26,000 people.
- 1847 – Liberia becomes independent, with Joseph Jenkins Roberts being its first President.
- 1882 – Boer settlers found the Republic of Stellaland in present-day South Africa.
- 1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal is first performed in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
- 1887 – Unua Libro, the 'First book of Esperanto' is published.
- 1891 – France takes control of Tahiti.
- 1908 – The FBI is founded.
- 1910 – The Rail Tunnel under the Detroit River linking Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan is opened.
- 1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt their diplomatic relationship.
- 1936 – The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1944 – World War II: The Soviet army enters German-occupied Lviv, in present-day Ukraine.
- 1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.
- 1945 – The British Conservative Party under Winston Churchill loses the General Election to the Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee.
- 1947 – The National Security Act of 1947 is signed by US President Harry S. Truman.
- 1948 – Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the United States Military.
- 1952 – Argentina's First Lady Eva Perón dies aged 33.
- 1953 – Begin of the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro later helps to found the 26th July Movement.
- 1956 – The Suez Crisis begins, after Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal.
- 1957 – President Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala is assassinated.
- 1963 – A earthquake strikes Skopje in the present-day Republic of Macedonia, killing around 1,100 people.
- 1965 – The Maldives gain full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 – Apollo 15 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, with David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden on board, to the Moon.
- 1974 – Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the Greek Government.
- 1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as an official language of the Provincial Government.
- 1990 – The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by US President George H. W. Bush.
- 1994 – Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
- 1994 – A bomb explodes outside the Israeli Embassy in London.
- 1998 – Cambodia holds its first election since regaining full independence.
- 2005 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is the first Space Shuttle mission since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of February 1, 2003.
- 2006 – A conference begins in Rome, Italy to discuss a solution to the Israel-Lebanon War, though without the participation of Israel, Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria.
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