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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of October 0306 | EVENT | Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki |
| 26th of October 1597 | EVENT | Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang. |
| 26th of October 1640 | EVENT | The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England. |
| 26th of October 1689 | EVENT | General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after. |
| 26th of October 1774 | EVENT | The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 26th of October 1775 | EVENT | King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution. |
| 26th of October 1776 | EVENT | Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. |
| 26th of October 1795 | EVENT | The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created. |
| 26th of October 1811 | EVENT | The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree. |
| 26th of October 1825 | EVENT | The Erie Canal opens : passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. |
| 26th of October 1859 | EVENT | The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead. |
| 26th of October 1860 | EVENT | Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. |
| 26th of October 1861 | EVENT | The Pony Express officially ceases operations. |
| 26th of October 1881 | EVENT | The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona. |
| 26th of October 1905 | EVENT | Norway becomes independent from Sweden. |
| 26th of October 1909 | EVENT | Ito Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria. |
| 26th of October 1912 | EVENT | First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje. |
| 26th of October 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians. |
| 26th of October 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers. |
| 26th of October 1918 | EVENT | Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations. |
| 26th of October 1921 | EVENT | The Chicago Theatre opens. |
| 26th of October 1936 | EVENT | The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation. |
| 26th of October 1940 | EVENT | The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight. |
| 26th of October 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged. |
| 26th of October 1943 | EVENT | World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil". |
| 26th of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory. |
| 26th of October 1947 | EVENT | The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India. |
| 26th of October 1948 | EVENT | Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania. |
| 26th of October 1955 | EVENT | After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality. |
| 26th of October 1955 | EVENT | Ngo ?inh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. |
| 26th of October 1958 | EVENT | Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France. |
| 26th of October 1959 | EVENT | First photographs taken of the far side of the Moon, by Luna 3. |
| 26th of October 1964 | EVENT | Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. |
| 26th of October 1967 | EVENT | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran. |
| 26th of October 1968 | EVENT | Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. |
| 26th of October 1977 | EVENT | The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. |
| 26th of October 1979 | EVENT | Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May. |
| 26th of October 1984 | EVENT | "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon. |
| 26th of October 1985 | EVENT | The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines. |
| 26th of October 1992 | EVENT | The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed. |
| 26th of October 1992 | EVENT | The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum. |
| 26th of October 1994 | EVENT | Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty |
| 26th of October 1995 | EVENT | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. |
| 26th of October 1999 | EVENT | Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. |
| 26th of October 2000 | EVENT | Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Cote d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guei. |
| 26th of October 2001 | EVENT | The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. |
| 26th of October 2002 | EVENT | Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before. |
| 26th of October 2003 | EVENT | The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km?), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego. |
| 26th of October 1427 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496) |
| 26th of October 1473 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510) |
| 26th of October 1491 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Zhengde of China (d. 1521) |
| 26th of October 1609 | BIRTHDAY | William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675) |
| 26th of October 1673 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, linguist, and scholar (d. 1723) |
| 26th of October 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757) |
| 26th of October 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757) |
| 26th of October 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758) |
| 26th of October 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823) |
| 26th of October 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794) |
| 26th of October 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844) |
| 26th of October 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881) |
| 26th of October 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872) |
| 26th of October 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (d. 1865) |
| 26th of October 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891) |
| 26th of October 1802 | BIRTHDAY | King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866) |
| 26th of October 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Hansom, English architect and inventor (d. 1882) |
| 26th of October 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904) |
| 26th of October 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917) |
| 26th of October 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (d. 1909) |
| 26th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914) |
| 26th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912) |
| 26th of October 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957) |
| 26th of October 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941) |
| 26th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942) |
| 26th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | A. K. Fazlul Huq, Sher-E-Bangla (Tiger Of Bengal) (d. 1962) |
| 26th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 1948) |
| 26th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936) |
| 26th of October 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934) |
| 26th of October 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (d. 1970) |
| 26th of October 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958) |
| 26th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (d. 1934) |
| 26th of October 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 26th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994) |
| 26th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer and author (d. 1986) |
| 26th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989) |
| 26th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967) |
| 26th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Dante Quinterno, Argentine comics artist (d. 2003) |
| 26th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996) |
| 26th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972) |
| 26th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003) |
| 26th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991) |
| 26th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991) |
| 26th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984) |
| 26th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950) |
| 26th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996) |
| 26th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Boyd Wagner, First USAAF fighter ace of World War II (d. 1942) |
| 26th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980) |
| 26th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Brooke, American politician |
| 26th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (d. 2010) |
| 26th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968) |
| 26th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007) |
| 26th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Solano Lopez, Argentine comics artist |
| 26th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000) |
| 26th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 1990) |
| 26th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Joachim Rodelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia) |
| 26th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Morrison, American actress |
| 26th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Horgan, author, professor and politician |
| 26th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Landsborough, Singer/Songwriter |
| 26th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Hoskins, British actor |
| 26th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Zdenko Runjic, Croatian composor (d. 2004) |
| 26th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author |
| 26th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Conroy, American writer |
| 26th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Sajak, American game show host |
| 26th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Hopwood, British musician (Herman's Hermits) |
| 26th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress |
| 26th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State |
| 26th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Joyce, Irish poet |
| 26th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jaclyn Smith, American actress |
| 26th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Ashley, British racing driver |
| 26th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Asch, Argentine physician |
| 26th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Harrah, American baseball player |
| 26th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Rogers, American baseball player |
| 26th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Sullivan, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 26th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Mars, American keyboard player Frank Zappa |
| 26th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk) |
| 26th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Schnabel, American filmmaker |
| 26th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate |
| 26th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Monckton, English fundraiser |
| 26th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's) |
| 26th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer |
| 26th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Wilson, American actress |
| 26th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman |
| 26th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Dawn Cole, British actress |
| 26th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Golic, American football player |
| 26th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Chau, Cambodian actor |
| 26th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Farmer, American anthropologist |
| 26th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bovell, British actor |
| 26th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Hinze, German footballer |
| 26th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Evo Morales, Bolivian politician |
| 26th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | June Brigman, American comic book artist |
| 26th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Breen, American actor |
| 26th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Malloy, American politician |
| 26th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan McDermott, American actor |
| 26th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Cary Elwes, British actor |
| 26th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Merchant, American singer |
| 26th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002) |
| 26th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Cavanagh, Canadian actor |
| 26th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer |
| 26th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer. |
| 26th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Hajduk, American actress |
| 26th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster |
| 26th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Valentine, British actor |
| 26th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer |
| 26th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Urban, New Zealand singer |
| 26th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dian Bachar, American actor |
| 26th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress |
| 26th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor |
| 26th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Seth MacFarlane, American animator |
| 26th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Taka Michinoku, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 26th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Healey, English rugby player |
| 26th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa, Japanese musician |
| 26th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Raveena Tandon, Indian actress |
| 26th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player |
| 26th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bakar Ibor, Comorian footballer |
| 26th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Heder, American actor |
| 26th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer |
| 26th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician |
| 26th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | CM Punk, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Zastudil, American football player |
| 26th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002) |
| 26th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer |
| 26th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Brown, American comedian |
| 26th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Sebastian, Australian singer |
| 26th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Carroll, British racing driver |
| 26th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Liriano, Dominican baseball player |
| 26th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer |
| 26th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Watson, South African rugby player |
| 26th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sasha Cohen, American figure skater |
| 26th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Burke, Irish actor |
| 26th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jefferson Farfan, Peruvian footballer |
| 26th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Overmyer, American singer |
| 26th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player |
| 26th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress |
| 26th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Monta Ellis, American basketball player |
| 26th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kieran Read, New Zealand rugby player |
| 26th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Lauvao, American football player |
| 26th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Zuerlein, American ice dancer |
| 26th of October 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Ellery Sprayberry, American actress |
| 26th of October 0899 | DEATH | Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (Born 849) |
| 26th of October 1235 | DEATH | King Andrew II of Hungary (Born 1175) |
| 26th of October 1440 | DEATH | Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (Born 1404) |
| 26th of October 1633 | DEATH | Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (Born 1596) |
| 26th of October 1671 | DEATH | Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (Born 1593) |
| 26th of October 1675 | DEATH | William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (Born 1609) |
| 26th of October 1679 | DEATH | Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (Born 1621) |
| 26th of October 1686 | DEATH | John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (Born 1623) |
| 26th of October 1717 | DEATH | Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (Born 1657) |
| 26th of October 1751 | DEATH | Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (Born 1702) |
| 26th of October 1764 | DEATH | William Hogarth, British painter (Born 1697) |
| 26th of October 1773 | DEATH | Amedee-Francois Frezier, French military engineer and explorer (Born 1682) |
| 26th of October 1803 | DEATH | Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (Born 1721) |
| 26th of October 1806 | DEATH | John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (Born 1752) |
| 26th of October 1817 | DEATH | Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (Born 1727) |
| 26th of October 1864 | DEATH | "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (Born 1838) |
| 26th of October 1866 | DEATH | John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (Born 1803) |
| 26th of October 1890 | DEATH | Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (Born 1826) |
| 26th of October 1896 | DEATH | Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (Born 1827) |
| 26th of October 1902 | DEATH | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (Born 1815) |
| 26th of October 1909 | DEATH | Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (Born 1841) |
| 26th of October 1930 | DEATH | Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (Born 1872) |
| 26th of October 1931 | DEATH | Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (Born 1859) |
| 26th of October 1937 | DEATH | Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki, Polish general (Born 1867) |
| 26th of October 1941 | DEATH | Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (Born 1904) |
| 26th of October 1943 | DEATH | Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (Born 1862) |
| 26th of October 1944 | DEATH | Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (Born 1857) |
| 26th of October 1944 | DEATH | William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1881) |
| 26th of October 1945 | DEATH | Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (Born 1863) |
| 26th of October 1945 | DEATH | Paul Pelliot, French explorer (Born 1878) |
| 26th of October 1946 | DEATH | Ioannis Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1878) |
| 26th of October 1947 | DEATH | Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (Born 1862) |
| 26th of October 1949 | DEATH | Lionel Halsey, British Royal Navy officer and courtier (Born 1872) |
| 26th of October 1952 | DEATH | Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (Born 1895) |
| 26th of October 1956 | DEATH | Walter Gieseking, German pianist (Born 1895) |
| 26th of October 1957 | DEATH | Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (Born 1883) |
| 26th of October 1957 | DEATH | Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (Born 1896) |
| 26th of October 1962 | DEATH | Louise Beavers, American actress (Born 1902) |
| 26th of October 1963 | DEATH | Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand paediatrician (Born 1879) |
| 26th of October 1965 | DEATH | Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (Born 1949) |
| 26th of October 1966 | DEATH | Alma Cogan, English singer (Born 1932) |
| 26th of October 1971 | DEATH | Vincent Coleman, American actor (Born 1901) |
| 26th of October 1972 | DEATH | Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (Born 1889) |
| 26th of October 1974 | DEATH | Bidia Dandaron, Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR (Born 1914) |
| 26th of October 1978 | DEATH | Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (Born 1904) |
| 26th of October 1979 | DEATH | Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (Born 1917) |
| 26th of October 1984 | DEATH | Gus Mancuso, baseball player (Born 1905) |
| 26th of October 1986 | DEATH | Jackson Scholz, American runner (Born 1897) |
| 26th of October 1989 | DEATH | Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (Born 1904) |
| 26th of October 1993 | DEATH | Oro, Mexican professional wrestler (Born 1971) |
| 26th of October 1994 | DEATH | Wilbert Harrison, American singer (Born 1929) |
| 26th of October 1995 | DEATH | Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (Born 1909) |
| 26th of October 1995 | DEATH | Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (Born 1913) |
| 26th of October 1997 | DEATH | Joe Cinque, Australian civil engineer murdered by Anu Singh (Born 1978) |
| 26th of October 1999 | DEATH | Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (Born 1938) |
| 26th of October 2002 | DEATH | Jacques Massu, French general (Born 1908) |
| 26th of October 2002 | DEATH | Movsar Barayev, Chechen terrorist (Born 1979) |
| 26th of October 2004 | DEATH | Bobby Avila, Mexican-American Major League Baseball player (Born 1924) |
| 26th of October 2005 | DEATH | Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist (Born 1958) |
| 26th of October 2005 | DEATH | George Swindin, English football player manager (Born 1914) |
| 26th of October 2006 | DEATH | Pontus Hulten, Swedish art collector and museum director (Born 1924) |
| 26th of October 2006 | DEATH | Tillman Franks, American songwriter (Born 1920) |
| 26th of October 2007 | DEATH | Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (Born 1947) |
| 26th of October 2007 | DEATH | Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-American TV chef (Born 1943) |
| 26th of October 2007 | DEATH | Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (Born 1918) |
| 26th of October 2007 | DEATH | Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (Born 1934) |
| 26th of October 2008 | DEATH | Tony Hillerman, American writer (Born 1925) |
| 26th of October 2008 | DEATH | Delmar Watson, American child actor (Born 1926) |
| 26th of October 2009 | DEATH | Teel Bivins, American politician (Born 1947) |
| 26th of October 2009 | DEATH | George Na'ope, American musician (Born 1928) |
| 26th of October 2010 | DEATH | Glen "Frosty" Little, American circus clown (Born 1925) |
| 26th of October 2010 | DEATH | Mbah Maridjan, Mount Merapi gatekeeper (Born 1927) |
| 26th of October 2010 | DEATH | Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (Born 1931) |