October 26
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October 26 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining after October 26 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1427 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
- 1491 – Zhengde, Chinese Emperor (d. 1521)
- 1685 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
- 1697 – John Peter Zenger, German-American journalist, publisher and editor (d. 1746)
- 1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
- 1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881) (Nov 6 in Gregorian calendar)
- 1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
- 1802 – King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
- 1842 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
- 1869 – Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1967)
- 1873 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
- 1900 – Ibrahim Abboud, President of Sudan (d. 1983)
- 1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
- 1912 – Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1916 – Francois Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
- 1919 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah (ruler) of Iran (d. 1980)
- 1926 – Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (d. 1996)
- 1942 – Bob Hoskins, British actor
- 1947 – Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, and former First Lady of the United States
- 1947 – Jaclyn Smith, American actress
- 1947 – Christian Ude, German politician and Mayor of Munich
- 1952 – Andrew Motion, British poet
- 1958 – Shaun Woodward, British politician
- 1959 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- 1965 – Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress
- 1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
- 1967 – Douglas Alexander, British politician
- 1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American animator, creator of Family Guy and American Dad
- 1973 – Austin Healey, English rugby player
- 1978 – CM Punk, American professional wrestler
- 1980 – Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
- 1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
- 1983 – Luke Watson, South African rugby player
- 1984 – Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
- 1984 – Jefferson Farfan, Peruvian footballer
- 1985 – Kieran Read, New Zealand rugby player
- 1988 – Greg Zuerlein, American ice dancer
[change] Deaths
- 899 – Alfred the Great, Saxon king of England (b. 849)
- 1235 – King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
- 1440 – Gilles de Rais, serial killer (b. 1404)
- 1764 – William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
- 1806 – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
- 1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (Pinocchio) (b. 1826)
- 1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist, suffragette (b. 1815)
- 1909 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea, and first Prime Minister of Japan, (assassinated) (b. 1841)
- 1931 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (b. 1859)
- 1937 – Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b. 1867)
- 1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, died in combat (b. 1904)
- 1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857)
- 1946 – Ioannis Rallis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great (b. 1861)
- 1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American singer (b. 1895)
- 1956 – Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
- 1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
- 1966 – Alma Cogan, British singer (b. 1932)
- 1972 – Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer (b. 1889)
- 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
- 1983 – Alfred Tarski, Polish mathematician (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American organic chemist (b. 1904)
- 1995 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Hoyt Axton, musician (b. 1938)
- 2002 – Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American scientist (b. 1918)
- 2008 – Tony Hillerman, American author (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Paul the Octopus, FIFA World Cup 'oracle' (b. 2008)
- 2011 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian politician, diplomat and physician (b. 1929)
[change] Events
- 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland and England.
- 1689 – The Bill of Rights 1689 is recognised by Great Britain's dual monarchy.
- 1825 – The Erie Canal opens, linking Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
- 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place in Tombstone, Arizona.
- 1896 – Addis Ababa agreement forces Italy to recognise Ethiopia's independence.
- 1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
- 1909 – Japanese Governor of Korea, Hirobumi Ito is shot dead by Korean nationalist Ahn Jung-geun in Harbin, Manchuria.
- 1955 – Austria declares permanent neutrality.
- 1955 – Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself leader of South Vietnam.
- 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is murdered by Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes acting President.
- 1984 – The film Terminator, directed by James Cameron, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, is released.
- 1985 – Uluru (Ayers Rock) is returned to Pitjantjiara Aborigines.
- 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
- 1995 – An avalanche hits the village of Flateyri, in Iceland's West Fjords, killing 20 people.
- 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo becomes President of the Ivory Coast.
- 2002 – Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian security forces storm a theatre building in Moscow, which had been occupied by terrorists for three days.
- 2003 – The Cedar fire in California, killing 15 people, destroying 1, 000 square kilometres of forests, and 2,200 homes around San Diego.
[change] Observances
- National Holiday in Austria
