Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 26 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 26
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 26
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 268 | Dionysius, pope of the Catholic Church |
| 418 | Zosimus, pope of the Catholic Church |
| 831 | Euthymius of Sardis, Byzantine bishop and saint (b. 754) |
| 865 | Zheng, empress of the Tang Dynasty |
| 893 | Masrur al-Balkhi, Abbasid general |
| 1006 | Gao Qiong, Chinese general (b. 935) |
| 1191 | Reginald Fitz Jocelin, archbishop-elect of Canterbury |
| 1302 | Valdemar, king of Sweden (b. 1239) |
| 1331 | Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278) |
| 1350 | Jean de Marigny, French archbishop |
| 1352 | John, 3rd Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1330) |
| 1360 | Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, English commander (b. 1314) |
| 1413 | Michele Steno, doge of Venice (b. 1331) |
| 1458 | Arthur III, duke of Brittany (b. 1393) |
| 1476 | Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan (b. 1444) |
| 1530 | Babur, Mughal emperor (b. 1483) |
| 1574 | Charles de Lorraine, French cardinal (b. 1524) |
| 1646 | Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588) |
| 1731 | Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672) |
| 1771 | Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715) |
| 1780 | John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712) |
| 1784 | Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743) |
| 1786 | Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713) |
| 1863 | Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775) |
| 1869 | Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797) |
| 1890 | Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822) |
| 1902 | Mary Hartwell Catherwood, American author and poet (b. 1849) |
| 1909 | Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861) |
| 1923 | Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868) |
| 1925 | Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880) |
| 1929 | Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860) |
| 1931 | Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851) |
| 1933 | Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875) |
| 1959 | Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890) |
| 1960 | Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889) |
| 1963 | Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915) |
| 1966 | Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875) |
| 1968 | Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898) |
| 1970 | Lillian Board, South African-English runner (b. 1948) |
| 1972 | Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884) |
| 1973 | Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899) |
| 1974 | Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (b. 1915) |
| 1977 | Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896) |
| 1980 | Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912) |
| 1981 | Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887) |
| 1983 | Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (b. 1907) |
| 1986 | Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (b. 1902) |
| 1987 | Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916) |
| 1988 | Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907) |
| 1989 | Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924) |
| 1990 | Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923) |
| 1994 | Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933) |
| 1996 | JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990) |
| 1997 | Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910) |
| 1998 | Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920) |
| 1999 | Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942) |
| 2000 | Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922) |
| 2001 | Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929) |
| 2002 | Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952) |
| 2003 | Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (b. 1904) |
| 2004 | Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959) |
| 2005 | Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano (b. 1937) |
| 2006 | Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913) |
| 2009 | Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (b. 1958) |
| 2010 | Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926) |
| 2011 | Houston Antwine, American football player (b. 1939) |
| 2012 | Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
| 2013 | Paul Blair, American baseball player and coach (b. 1944) |
| 2014 | Stanisław Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b. 1946) |
| 2015 | Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1922) |
| 2016 | Ricky Harris, American comedian, actor (b. 1962) |
| 2017 | Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster and television news anchor (b. 1930) |
| 2020 | Brodie Lee, American Professional Wrestler (b. 1979) |
| 2021 | Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi (b. 1929) |
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