Famous Deaths on December 26, Who Died on December 26

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Date Name
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)
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