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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of January 1500 | EVENT | Vicente Yanez Pinzon becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil. |
| 26th of January 1531 | EVENT | Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die. |
| 26th of January 1564 | EVENT | The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War. |
| 26th of January 1564 | EVENT | The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. |
| 26th of January 1565 | EVENT | Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent. |
| 26th of January 1589 | EVENT | Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. |
| 26th of January 1699 | EVENT | Treaty of Carlowitz is signed. |
| 26th of January 1700 | EVENT | The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records. |
| 26th of January 1736 | EVENT | Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. |
| 26th of January 1788 | EVENT | The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day |
| 26th of January 1808 | EVENT | Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia. |
| 26th of January 1837 | EVENT | Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state. |
| 26th of January 1838 | EVENT | Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States |
| 26th of January 1841 | EVENT | The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes. |
| 26th of January 1855 | EVENT | Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory. |
| 26th of January 1856 | EVENT | First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers. |
| 26th of January 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union. |
| 26th of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker. |
| 26th of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent. |
| 26th of January 1870 | EVENT | American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union. |
| 26th of January 1885 | EVENT | Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum. |
| 26th of January 1905 | EVENT | The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.62135 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. |
| 26th of January 1907 | EVENT | The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use. |
| 26th of January 1911 | EVENT | Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane. |
| 26th of January 1911 | EVENT | Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera. |
| 26th of January 1918 | EVENT | Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war. |
| 26th of January 1920 | EVENT | Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer. |
| 26th of January 1924 | EVENT | Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad. |
| 26th of January 1930 | EVENT | The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later. |
| 26th of January 1934 | EVENT | German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed. |
| 26th of January 1934 | EVENT | The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City. |
| 26th of January 1939 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona. |
| 26th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland. |
| 26th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later. |
| 26th of January 1950 | EVENT | The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India. |
| 26th of January 1952 | EVENT | Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. |
| 26th of January 1958 | EVENT | Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed. |
| 26th of January 1960 | EVENT | Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia) |
| 26th of January 1961 | EVENT | John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment. |
| 26th of January 1962 | EVENT | Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). |
| 26th of January 1965 | EVENT | Hindi becomes the official language of India. |
| 26th of January 1966 | EVENT | The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. |
| 26th of January 1978 | EVENT | The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio : Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h). |
| 26th of January 1980 | EVENT | Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations. |
| 26th of January 1991 | EVENT | Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi. |
| 26th of January 1992 | EVENT | Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. |
| 26th of January 1998 | EVENT | Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. |
| 26th of January 2001 | EVENT | An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths. |
| 26th of January 2004 | EVENT | President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan. |
| 26th of January 2004 | EVENT | A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion. |
| 26th of January 2005 | EVENT | Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles. |
| 26th of January 2009 | EVENT | Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina. |
| 26th of January 1497 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557) |
| 26th of January 1541 | BIRTHDAY | Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596) |
| 26th of January 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785) |
| 26th of January 1716 | BIRTHDAY | George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785) |
| 26th of January 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805) |
| 26th of January 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844) |
| 26th of January 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831) |
| 26th of January 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876) |
| 26th of January 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Dent-Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902) |
| 26th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924) |
| 26th of January 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Coppee, French poet and novelist (d. 1908) |
| 26th of January 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazza), explorer (d. 1905) |
| 26th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Jozsef Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet and journalist in Hungary (d. 1934) |
| 26th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1948) |
| 26th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964) |
| 26th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959) |
| 26th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915) |
| 26th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Mitscher, American admiral (d. 1947) |
| 26th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Costello, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1973) |
| 26th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976) |
| 26th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926) |
| 26th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978) |
| 26th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976) |
| 26th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967) |
| 26th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940) |
| 26th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Sean MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988) |
| 26th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004) |
| 26th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987) |
| 26th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 26th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990) |
| 26th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (d. 2009) |
| 26th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997) |
| 26th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989) |
| 26th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993) |
| 26th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 26th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990) |
| 26th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Durruhsehvar (d. 2006) |
| 26th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 26th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989) |
| 26th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Jose Farmer, American writer (d. 2009) |
| 26th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949) |
| 26th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur. (d. 2004) |
| 26th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (d. 2009) |
| 26th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999) |
| 26th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005) |
| 26th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (d. 1993) |
| 26th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996) |
| 26th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Jeffreys, American actress |
| 26th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Babs, Swedish singer |
| 26th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998) |
| 26th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Rauf Denktas, Cypriot politician |
| 26th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Leslie, American actress |
| 26th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper editor (d. 2004) |
| 26th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d. 2008) |
| 26th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar |
| 26th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985) |
| 26th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005) |
| 26th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000) |
| 26th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer |
| 26th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000) |
| 26th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Napoleon Abueva, Filipino sculptor |
| 26th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Murphy, American film actress |
| 26th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer |
| 26th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | George Clements, American civil rights activist and Roman Catholic priest |
| 26th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist |
| 26th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and newspaper publisher |
| 26th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and TV personality |
| 26th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster |
| 26th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Sal Buscema, American comic book artist |
| 26th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003) |
| 26th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Glenn, American actor |
| 26th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Jaglom, English director |
| 26th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001) |
| 26th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Gutierrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 26th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Knight, American singer |
| 26th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Austin "Jack" Warner, Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President |
| 26th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Davis, American feminist and activist |
| 26th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline du Pre, English cellist (d. 1987) |
| 26th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999) |
| 26th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982) |
| 26th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Sardou, French singer |
| 26th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Carroll, American author |
| 26th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | David Strathairn, American actor |
| 26th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jorg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (d. 2008) |
| 26th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Lupo, American model |
| 26th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lucinda Williams, American singer |
| 26th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alik L. Alik, vice-president of the Federate States of Micronesie |
| 26th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO |
| 26th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer |
| 26th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen) |
| 26th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Baker, American singer |
| 26th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian |
| 26th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer |
| 26th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows) |
| 26th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer |
| 26th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Keifer, American musician (Cinderella) |
| 26th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer |
| 26th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Riddell Akua, Nauruan politician |
| 26th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Mourinho, Portuguese football manager |
| 26th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Ridgeley, English musician |
| 26th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gisela Valcarcel, Peruvian Hostess |
| 26th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Braunstein, American journalist, writer, playwright, and rapist |
| 26th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Johansson, American actor |
| 26th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast |
| 26th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Ostros, Swedish politician |
| 26th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer |
| 26th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor |
| 26th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michael O'Hearn, American bodybuilder |
| 26th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Franklin, American gospel singer |
| 26th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Middendorf, American actress |
| 26th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Callen, American actor |
| 26th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dorian Gregory, American actor |
| 26th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Melvil Poupaud, French actor |
| 26th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka |
| 26th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Hale, American author |
| 26th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Rayder, American model |
| 26th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hitomi, Japanese singer and songwriter |
| 26th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Adler, American guitar player |
| 26th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Carter, American basketball player |
| 26th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player |
| 26th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tye Tribbett, American Singer |
| 26th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban German, Dominican baseball player |
| 26th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Corina Morariu, American tennis player |
| 26th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Stables, American actress |
| 26th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Rue, American actress |
| 26th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sanae Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress |
| 26th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Fallon, American musician (The Gaslight Anthem) |
| 26th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan Composer/Conductor |
| 26th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist |
| 26th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Hodges, American football player |
| 26th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Petri Oravainen, Finnish footballer |
| 26th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Su Hwan Lee, South Korean footballer |
| 26th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Layla Kayleigh, British television personality |
| 26th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Turner, Scottish footballer |
| 26th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Wu Qian, Chinese classical pianist |
| 26th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer |
| 26th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Green, American basketball player |
| 26th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Hero, South Korean singer (TVXQ) |
| 26th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium) |
| 26th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Shantelle Malawski, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 26th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Thiago Pereira, Brazilian swimmer |
| 26th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003) |
| 26th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mia Rose, English/Portuguese singer |
| 26th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon Mario Brandao da Silveira, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Yukiyo Mine, Japanese footballer |
| 26th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Hughes, American figure skater |
| 26th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Massey, American actor |
| 26th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Perez, Mexican racing driver |
| 26th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Bright, Canadian actor |
| 26th of January 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor |
| 26th of January 0946 | DEATH | Eadgyth, German Queen (Born 910) |
| 26th of January 1567 | DEATH | Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat |
| 26th of January 1630 | DEATH | Henry Briggs, English mathematician (Born 1556) |
| 26th of January 1636 | DEATH | Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (Born 1552) |
| 26th of January 1697 | DEATH | Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (Born 1640) |
| 26th of January 1744 | DEATH | Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhuller, Austrian field marshal (Born 1683) |
| 26th of January 1750 | DEATH | Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (Born 1686) |
| 26th of January 1795 | DEATH | Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (Born 1732) |
| 26th of January 1799 | DEATH | Gabriel Christie, British general (Born 1722) |
| 26th of January 1823 | DEATH | Edward Jenner, English physician (Born 1749) |
| 26th of January 1824 | DEATH | Theodore Gericault, French painter (Born 1791) |
| 26th of January 1855 | DEATH | Gerard de Nerval, French writer (Born 1808) |
| 26th of January 1869 | DEATH | Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1846) |
| 26th of January 1870 | DEATH | Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (Born 1785) |
| 26th of January 1885 | DEATH | Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British general (Born 1833) |
| 26th of January 1885 | DEATH | Edward Davy, English inventor (Born 1806) |
| 26th of January 1886 | DEATH | David Rice Atchison, American politician (Born 1807) |
| 26th of January 1891 | DEATH | Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (Born 1833) |
| 26th of January 1893 | DEATH | Abner Doubleday, American military figure, and credited inventor of baseball (Born 1819) |
| 26th of January 1904 | DEATH | Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (Born 1846) |
| 26th of January 1926 | DEATH | John Flannagan, American educator |
| 26th of January 1932 | DEATH | William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Born 1861) |
| 26th of January 1933 | DEATH | Alva Belmont, American socialite (Born 1853) |
| 26th of January 1942 | DEATH | Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (Born 1868) |
| 26th of January 1943 | DEATH | Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (Born 1887) |
| 26th of January 1943 | DEATH | Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (Born 1880) |
| 26th of January 1946 | DEATH | Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (Born 1884) |
| 26th of January 1947 | DEATH | Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, (Born 1906) |
| 26th of January 1947 | DEATH | Grace Moore, American soprano (Born 1898) |
| 26th of January 1948 | DEATH | John Lomax, American musicologist and folklorist (Born 1867) |
| 26th of January 1952 | DEATH | Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (Born 1895) |
| 26th of January 1953 | DEATH | Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (Born 1882) |
| 26th of January 1961 | DEATH | Stan Nichols, English cricketer (Born 1900) |
| 26th of January 1962 | DEATH | Lucky Luciano, American mobster (Born 1897) |
| 26th of January 1963 | DEATH | H. S. Lloyd, British dog breeder (Born 1887) |
| 26th of January 1968 | DEATH | Yvor Winters, American poet (Born 1900) |
| 26th of January 1968 | DEATH | Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (Born 1883) |
| 26th of January 1973 | DEATH | Edward G. Robinson, American actor (Born 1893) |
| 26th of January 1973 | DEATH | Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (Born 1906) |
| 26th of January 1976 | DEATH | Joao Branco Nuncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (Born 1901) |
| 26th of January 1979 | DEATH | Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (Born 1908) |
| 26th of January 1983 | DEATH | Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (Born 1913) |
| 26th of January 1990 | DEATH | Lewis Mumford, American historian (Born 1895) |
| 26th of January 1990 | DEATH | Bob Gerard, British racing driver (Born 1914) |
| 26th of January 1992 | DEATH | Jose Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (Born 1912) |
| 26th of January 1993 | DEATH | Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (Born 1905) |
| 26th of January 1993 | DEATH | Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (Born 1912) |
| 26th of January 1993 | DEATH | Jeanne Sauve, Canadian politician (Born 1922) |
| 26th of January 1996 | DEATH | Harold Brodkey, American author (Born 1930) |
| 26th of January 1996 | DEATH | Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (Born 1963) |
| 26th of January 1996 | DEATH | Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, (Born 1921) |
| 26th of January 1996 | DEATH | Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (Born 1932) |
| 26th of January 1996 | DEATH | Dave Schultz, American wrestler (Born 1959) |
| 26th of January 1996 | DEATH | Frank Howard, American college football player and coach (Born 1909) |
| 26th of January 1997 | DEATH | Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (Born 1904) |
| 26th of January 1998 | DEATH | Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (Born 1898) |
| 26th of January 2000 | DEATH | Don Budge, American tennis player (Born 1915) |
| 26th of January 2000 | DEATH | Kathleen Hale, British author (Born 1898) |
| 26th of January 2000 | DEATH | A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (Born 1912) |
| 26th of January 2001 | DEATH | Al McGuire, American basketball coach (Born 1928) |
| 26th of January 2003 | DEATH | George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (Born 1931) |
| 26th of January 2003 | DEATH | Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (Born 1917) |
| 26th of January 2003 | DEATH | Valeriy Brumel, Soviet track-and-field athlete (Born 1942) |
| 26th of January 2004 | DEATH | Fred Haas, American golfer (Born 1916) |
| 26th of January 2006 | DEATH | Len Carlson, Canadian actor (Born 1937) |
| 26th of January 2006 | DEATH | Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani politician and statesman (Born 1917) |
| 26th of January 2006 | DEATH | Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (Born 1920) |
| 26th of January 2007 | DEATH | Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (Born 1914) |
| 26th of January 2007 | DEATH | Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1929) |
| 26th of January 2008 | DEATH | Christian Brando, American actor; son of Marlon Brando (Born 1958) |
| 26th of January 2008 | DEATH | Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (Born 1906) |
| 26th of January 2011 | DEATH | Gladys Horton, American musician and singer, member of the group The Marvelettes (Born 1944) |
| 26th of January 2011 | DEATH | Charlie Louvin, American musician (Born 1927) |