May 26
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[edit] Events
- 1966 - Guyana gains independence (separates) from the United Kingdom
[edit] Births
- 1946 - Mick Ronson, guitarist
- 1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait, actor, comedian
- 1964 - Lenny Kravitz, singer
- 1971 - Ivan O. Godfroid, writer
[edit] Deaths
- 604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
- 946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
- 1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria
- 1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
- 1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
- 1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet
- 1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
- 1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
- 1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
- 1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
- 1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
- 1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
- 1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
- 1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
- 1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
- 1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
- 1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
- 1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
- 1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
- 1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
- 1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
- 1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
- 1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)
- 1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
- 1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
- 1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
- 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
- 1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
- 1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
- 1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
- 1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)
- 1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
- 1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
- 1968 - Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937)
- 1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
- 1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
- 1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1979 - George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
- 1995 - Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)
- 1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
- 1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
- 2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
- 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 and politician (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
- 2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1928)
- 2006 - Édouard Michelin , CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
- 2006 - C. H. Patterson, American Psychologist (b. 1912)