Deaths on 26 January
2000s
Suzanne Massie
2025
American scholar of Russian history (1931–2025)
John Altobelli
2020
American baseball coach (1963–2020)
Gianna Bryant
2020
Daughter of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant (2006–2020)
Kobe Bryant
2020
American basketball player (1978–2020)
Mike Connors
2017
American actor (1925–2017)
Tam Dalyell
2017
Scottish politician (1932–2017)
Lindy Delapenha
2017
Jamaican football player and journalist (1927–2017)
Barbara Hale
2017
American actress (1922–2017)
Barbara Howard (athlete)
2017
Canadian sprinter (1920–2017)
Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
2016
Pakistani politician and military officer
Abe Vigoda
2016
American actor (1921–2016)
Cleven Goudeau
2015
American art director and cartoonist
Tom Uren
2015
Australian politician (1921–2015)
Tom Gola
2014
American basketball player and politician (1933–2014)
Paula Gruden
2014
Slovenian-born Australian poet (1921–2014)
José Emilio Pacheco
2014
Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer (1939–2014)
Christine M. Jones
2013
American politician (1929–2013)
Stefan Kudelski
2013
Polish audio engineer (1931–2013)
Padma Kant Shukla
2013
Indian physicist
Shōtarō Yasuoka
2013
Japanese writer
Roberto Mieres
2012
Argentine racing driver (1924–2012)
David Kato
2011
Ugandan LGBT rights activist (1964–2011)
Charlie Louvin
2011
American country music singer and songwriter
Louis Auchincloss
2010
American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917–2010)
Viktor Schreckengost
2008
American painter
George Habash
2008
Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1926–2008)
Gump Worsley
2007
Canadian ice hockey player (1929–2007)
Abdul Wali Khan
2006
Pakistani politician (1917–2006)
Fred Haas
2004
American golfer (1916–2004)
Valeriy Brumel
2003
Soviet high jumper (1942–2003)
Hugh Trevor-Roper
2003
English historian (1914–2003)
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
2003
British politician and banker (1931-2003)
Al McGuire
2001
American basketball coach (1928–2001)
Don Budge
2000
American tennis player (1915–2000)
Kathleen Hale
2000
British artist, illustrator, and children's author
A. E. van Vogt
2000
Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)
1900s
Jeane Dixon
1997
American astrologer and psychic
Harold Brodkey
1996
American short-story writer and novelist
Frank Howard (American football)
1996
American college football player and coach
Henry Lewis (musician)
1996
American conductor
Jan Gies
1993
Dutch Resistance member who helped hide Anne Frank
Jeanne Sauvé
1993
Governor General of Canada from 1984 to 1990
José Ferrer
1992
Puerto Rican actor and director (1912–1992)
Lewis Mumford
1990
American scholar and writer (1895–1990)
Ruben Nirvi
1986
Finnish linguist
Kenny Clarke
1985
American jazz drummer (1914–1985)
Bear Bryant
1983
American football coach (1913–1983)
Nelson Rockefeller
1979
Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Dietrich von Hildebrand
1977
Italian-German American Roman Catholic philosopher and author (1889-1977)
João Branco Núncio
1976
Portuguese bullfighter
Edward G. Robinson
1973
American actor (1893–1973)
Merrill C. Meigs
1968
American publisher (1883–1968)
Lucky Luciano
1962
Italian American mobster (1897–1962)
Athanase David
1953
Canadian politician (1882–1953)
Fred Conrad Koch
1948
Grace Moore
1947
American operatic soprano and actress (1898–1947)
Adriaan van Maanen
1946
American astronomer (1884–1946)
Harry H. Laughlin
1943
American eugenicist (1880–1943)
Nikolai Vavilov
1943
Russian botanist and geneticist (1887–1943)
William Wrigley Jr.
1932
American businessman (1861–1932)
Jeanne Hébuterne
1920
French painter (1898–1920)
Whitaker Wright
1904
English fraudster and businessman (1846–1904)
1800s
James Edwin Campbell (poet)
1896
African-American poet (1867–1896)
Arthur Cayley
1895
English mathematician (1821–1895)
Abner Doubleday
1893
Union Army general (1819–1893)
Nicolaus Otto
1891
Inventor of the internal combustion engine
Anandi Gopal Joshi
1887
One of the first female Indian doctors, alongside Kadambini Ganguly
David Rice Atchison
1886
American politician (1807–1886)
Edward Davy
1885
English physician, scientist, and inventor
Charles George Gordon
1885
British general (1833–1885)
Duncan Gordon Boyes
1869
English Victoria Cross recipient
Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
1860
German operatic soprano
Gérard de Nerval
1855
French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
1849
English poet, dramatist and physician (1803–1849)
Filippo Castagna
1830
Théodore Géricault
1824
French painter (1791–1824)
Edward Jenner
1823
English physician (1749–1823)
Manuel do Cenáculo
1814
18th-century Portuguese prelate and antiquarian
Before 1800
Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)
1799
British Army general
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
1795
German musician and composer (1732-1795)
Albert Schultens
1750
Dutch philologist (1686–1750)
Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller
1744
Austrian field marshal (1683–1744)
Georg Mohr
1697
Danish mathematician
Lawrence Hyde (attorney-general)
1641
English lawyer and attorney-general
Henry Briggs (mathematician)
1630
British mathematician (1561–1630)
Amar Singh I
1620
Maharana of Mewar from 1597 to 1620
Nicholas Wotton
1567
English diplomat, cleric and courtier (c. 1497–1567)
Adolph IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel
1390
German noble
John of Dailam
738