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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of July 0657 | EVENT | First Fitna: the Battle of Siffin see the troops led by Ali ibn Abi Talib and those led by Muawiyah I clashing. |
| 26th of July 0811 | EVENT | Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I is killed and his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded. |
| 26th of July 0920 | EVENT | Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Leon against the Muslims at Pamplona. |
| 26th of July 1309 | EVENT | Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V. |
| 26th of July 1469 | EVENT | Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place. |
| 26th of July 1581 | EVENT | Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II. |
| 26th of July 1745 | EVENT | The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England. |
| 26th of July 1758 | EVENT | French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. |
| 26th of July 1775 | EVENT | The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. |
| 26th of July 1788 | EVENT | New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States. |
| 26th of July 1803 | EVENT | The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London. |
| 26th of July 1822 | EVENT | Jose de San Martin arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simon Bolivar. |
| 26th of July 1822 | EVENT | First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis. |
| 26th of July 1847 | EVENT | Liberia declares independence. |
| 26th of July 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. |
| 26th of July 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends : At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. |
| 26th of July 1878 | EVENT | In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside. |
| 26th of July 1882 | EVENT | Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth. |
| 26th of July 1882 | EVENT | The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa. |
| 26th of July 1887 | EVENT | Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement. |
| 26th of July 1890 | EVENT | In Buenos Aires the Revolucion del Parque takes place, forcing President Juarez Celman's resignation. |
| 26th of July 1891 | EVENT | France annexes Tahiti. |
| 26th of July 1908 | EVENT | United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). |
| 26th of July 1914 | EVENT | Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship. |
| 26th of July 1936 | EVENT | The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. |
| 26th of July 1936 | EVENT | King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. |
| 26th of July 1937 | EVENT | End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. |
| 26th of July 1941 | EVENT | World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. |
| 26th of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: the Soviet army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation. |
| 26th of July 1944 | EVENT | The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain. |
| 26th of July 1945 | EVENT | The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. |
| 26th of July 1945 | EVENT | The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. |
| 26th of July 1945 | EVENT | The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. |
| 26th of July 1946 | EVENT | Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport |
| 26th of July 1947 | EVENT | Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. |
| 26th of July 1948 | EVENT | U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States. |
| 26th of July 1952 | EVENT | King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad. |
| 26th of July 1953 | EVENT | Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid. |
| 26th of July 1953 | EVENT | Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. |
| 26th of July 1956 | EVENT | Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. |
| 26th of July 1957 | EVENT | Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated. |
| 26th of July 1958 | EVENT | Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. |
| 26th of July 1963 | EVENT | Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. |
| 26th of July 1963 | EVENT | An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead. |
| 26th of July 1963 | EVENT | The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan. |
| 26th of July 1965 | EVENT | Full independence is granted to the Maldives. |
| 26th of July 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong ?inh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. |
| 26th of July 1971 | EVENT | Apollo Program: launch of Apollo 15. |
| 26th of July 1974 | EVENT | Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule. |
| 26th of July 1975 | EVENT | Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal. |
| 26th of July 1977 | EVENT | The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. |
| 26th of July 1989 | EVENT | A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. |
| 26th of July 1990 | EVENT | The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. |
| 26th of July 2005 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission : Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. |
| 26th of July 2005 | EVENT | Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days. |
| 26th of July 2008 | EVENT | 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India. |
| 26th of July 1030 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislaus of Szczepanow, Polish bishop and martyr (d. 1079) |
| 26th of July 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711) |
| 26th of July 1739 | BIRTHDAY | George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the USA (d. 1812) |
| 26th of July 1782 | BIRTHDAY | John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837) |
| 26th of July 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1844) |
| 26th of July 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Arista, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855) |
| 26th of July 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (d. 1912) |
| 26th of July 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor and cowboy (d. 1880) |
| 26th of July 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Gaucher, French dermatologist (d. 1918) |
| 26th of July 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Tonnies, German sociologist (d. 1936) |
| 26th of July 1856 | BIRTHDAY | George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950) |
| 26th of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer (d. 1943) |
| 26th of July 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939) |
| 26th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951) |
| 26th of July 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939) |
| 26th of July 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961) |
| 26th of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951) |
| 26th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Maurois, French author (d. 1967) |
| 26th of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965) |
| 26th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Hands, South African cricketer (d. 1918) |
| 26th of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966) |
| 26th of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | George Grosz, German painter (d. 1959) |
| 26th of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963) |
| 26th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922) |
| 26th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964) |
| 26th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933) |
| 26th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gallico, American novelist (d. 1976) |
| 26th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963) |
| 26th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Irena I??akowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943) |
| 26th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (d. 2002) |
| 26th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994) |
| 26th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979) |
| 26th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968) |
| 26th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993) |
| 26th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Norkus, German Nazi and murder victim (d. 1932) |
| 26th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Marjorie Lord, American actress |
| 26th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986) |
| 26th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983) |
| 26th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Shepherd, American writer, radio and TV personality and actor (d. 1999) |
| 26th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 26th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Edwards, American film director (d. 2010) |
| 26th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Berenstain, American author |
| 26th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 26th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-born Swedish doctor, researcher, politician and concentration camp survivor (d. 2000) |
| 26th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | James Best, American actor |
| 26th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer |
| 26th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricketer (d. 2003) |
| 26th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic |
| 26th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980) |
| 26th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999) |
| 26th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955) |
| 26th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician |
| 26th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Lalonde, French-Canadian politician |
| 26th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist |
| 26th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Jackson, American manager, boxer and talent scout, the patriarch of the Jackson family |
| 26th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Tele Santana, Brazilian football manager and player (d. 2006) |
| 26th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast |
| 26th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy McDonald, American football player |
| 26th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998) |
| 26th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Darlene Love, American singer |
| 26th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia |
| 26th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Lilly, American football player |
| 26th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dobie Gray, American singer |
| 26th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969) |
| 26th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player |
| 26th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer |
| 26th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter |
| 26th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Bauberot, French historian and sociologist |
| 26th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter |
| 26th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Meciar, Slovakian politician, 1st and 3rd Prime Minister of Slovakia |
| 26th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver |
| 26th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones) |
| 26th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hyams, American film director |
| 26th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 26th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Davis, American funk, rock and soul singer |
| 26th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Mirren, English actress |
| 26th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Wiesinger, German pairs skater |
| 26th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Taylor, English drummer and vocalist (Queen) |
| 26th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Thaksin Shinawatra, 23rd Prime Minister of Thailand |
| 26th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Susan George, English actress |
| 26th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990) |
| 26th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Nelinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Phillips, American classical guitarist |
| 26th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Edie Mirman, American voice actress |
| 26th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994) |
| 26th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandrs Starkovs, Latvian footballer |
| 26th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater |
| 26th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Visitor, American actress |
| 26th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor |
| 26th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer |
| 26th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist |
| 26th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Bragg, American writer |
| 26th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005) |
| 26th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Spacey, American actor |
| 26th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Cherone, American vocalist (Extreme, Van Halen) |
| 26th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer |
| 26th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Connell, English keyboardist (Swing Out Sister, A Certain Ratio) |
| 26th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh, Irish fiddler and vocalist (Altan) |
| 26th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Bullock, American actress |
| 26th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer |
| 26th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Woodburn, American actor |
| 26th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Piven, American actor |
| 26th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 26th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Schafer, American computer game designer |
| 26th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Diefenthal, French actor and director |
| 26th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Williams, English actress |
| 26th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player |
| 26th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Wasser, American singer-songwriter and violinist (Dambuilders) |
| 26th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 26th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Wonder' Jamaican singer |
| 26th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Buckley, Australian rules footballer |
| 26th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Beckinsale, British actress |
| 26th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Pirillo, American TV host and blogger |
| 26th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lenka Kotkova, Czech astronomer |
| 26th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vaniity, Mexican transsexual pornographic actress |
| 26th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Sturridge, English footballer |
| 26th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player |
| 26th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Smith, American basketball player |
| 26th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tanja Szewczenko, German figure skater |
| 26th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Wilkins, American architect |
| 26th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Laursen, Danish footballer |
| 26th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer |
| 26th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Paravicini, British autistic savant |
| 26th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Michau, German rugby player |
| 26th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mageina Tovah, American actress |
| 26th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41) |
| 26th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor |
| 26th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Forsythe, Australian actor and director |
| 26th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Maicon Douglas Sisenando, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chez Starbuck, American actor |
| 26th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Delonte West, American basketball player |
| 26th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper |
| 26th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Benard, American football player |
| 26th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Gael Clichy, French footballer |
| 26th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mugdha Godse, Indian actress and model |
| 26th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress |
| 26th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Fredy Montero, Colombian soccer player |
| 26th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Francia Raisa, American actress |
| 26th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Areti Ketime, Greek singer and santouri player |
| 26th of July 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Gillies, American actress |
| 26th of July 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Momsen, American actress and singer |
| 26th of July 0342 | DEATH | Jin Chengdi, Chinese emperor (Born 321) |
| 26th of July 0796 | DEATH | King Offa of Mercia (birth year unknown) |
| 26th of July 0811 | DEATH | Nikephoros I Logothetes, Byzantine Emperor (birth year unknown) |
| 26th of July 1380 | DEATH | Emperor Komyo of Japan (Born 1322) |
| 26th of July 1471 | DEATH | Pope Paul II (Born 1417) |
| 26th of July 1592 | DEATH | Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (Born 1524) |
| 26th of July 1611 | DEATH | Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (Born 1542) |
| 26th of July 1680 | DEATH | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (Born 1647) |
| 26th of July 1684 | DEATH | Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (Born 1646) |
| 26th of July 1712 | DEATH | Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (Born 1631) |
| 26th of July 1723 | DEATH | Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (Born 1660) |
| 26th of July 1801 | DEATH | Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (Born 1756) |
| 26th of July 1863 | DEATH | Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (Born 1793) |
| 26th of July 1867 | DEATH | King Otto of Greece (Born 1815) |
| 26th of July 1919 | DEATH | Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (Born 1836) |
| 26th of July 1925 | DEATH | Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (Born 1848) |
| 26th of July 1925 | DEATH | Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (Born 1888) |
| 26th of July 1925 | DEATH | William Jennings Bryan, American politician (Born 1860) |
| 26th of July 1932 | DEATH | Fred Duesenberg German-born American automotive pioneer (Born 1876) |
| 26th of July 1934 | DEATH | Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (Born 1871) |
| 26th of July 1941 | DEATH | Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (Born 1875) |
| 26th of July 1942 | DEATH | Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (Born 1900) |
| 26th of July 1952 | DEATH | Eva Peron, Argentine First Lady (Born 1919) |
| 26th of July 1953 | DEATH | Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (Born 1883) |
| 26th of July 1960 | DEATH | Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (Born 1879) |
| 26th of July 1960 | DEATH | Cedric Gibbons, American art director (Born 1893) |
| 26th of July 1964 | DEATH | Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician and race driver (Born 1884) |
| 26th of July 1969 | DEATH | Frank Loesser, American composer (Born 1910) |
| 26th of July 1970 | DEATH | Robert Taschereau, French-Canadian jurist (Born 1896) |
| 26th of July 1971 | DEATH | Diane Arbus, American photographer (Born 1923) |
| 26th of July 1980 | DEATH | Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (Born 1928) |
| 26th of July 1984 | DEATH | George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (Born 1901) |
| 26th of July 1984 | DEATH | Ed Gein, American serial killer (Born 1906) |
| 26th of July 1986 | DEATH | Averell Harriman, American diplomat (Born 1891) |
| 26th of July 1988 | DEATH | Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (Born 1919) |
| 26th of July 1990 | DEATH | Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (Born 1952) |
| 26th of July 1992 | DEATH | Mary Wells, American singer (Born 1943) |
| 26th of July 1993 | DEATH | Matthew Ridgeway, American army general (Born 1895) |
| 26th of July 1994 | DEATH | James Luther Adams, American theologian (Born 1901) |
| 26th of July 1994 | DEATH | Tonia Marketaki, Greek film director and screenwriter (Born 1942) |
| 26th of July 1994 | DEATH | Christy Henrich, American gymnast (Born 1972) |
| 26th of July 1994 | DEATH | Terry Scott, British actor (Born 1927) |
| 26th of July 1995 | DEATH | Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (Born 1918) |
| 26th of July 1995 | DEATH | Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (Born 1917) |
| 26th of July 1995 | DEATH | George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (Born 1907) |
| 26th of July 2000 | DEATH | John Tukey, American statistician (Born 1915) |
| 26th of July 2001 | DEATH | Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (Born 1917) |
| 26th of July 2001 | DEATH | Peter von Zahn, German journalist (Born 1913) |
| 26th of July 2004 | DEATH | William A. Mitchell, American food chemist (Born 1911) |
| 26th of July 2005 | DEATH | Betty Astell, British actress (Born 1912) |
| 26th of July 2005 | DEATH | Alexander Golitzen, American art director (Born 1908) |
| 26th of July 2005 | DEATH | Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1945) |
| 26th of July 2005 | DEATH | Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (Born 1925) |
| 26th of July 2007 | DEATH | Lars Forssell, Swedish writer (Born 1928) |
| 26th of July 2007 | DEATH | John Normington, English actor (Born 1937) |
| 26th of July 2007 | DEATH | Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (Born 1950) |
| 26th of July 2009 | DEATH | Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (Born 1911) |
| 26th of July 2010 | DEATH | Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (Born 1945) |