Deaths on 26 November
2000s
Jim Abrahams
2024
American film director and writer (1944–2024)
Vikram Gokhale
2022
Indian actor (1945–2022)
Stephen Sondheim
2021
American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)
Stephen Hillenburg
2018
American animator and educator (1961–2018)
Fritz Weaver
2016
American actor (1926–2016)
Amir Aczel
2015
Israeli-born American lecturer (1950–2015)
Guy Lewis
2015
American basketball player and coach (1922–2015)
Mary Hinkson
2014
American dancer
Gilles Tremblay (ice hockey)
2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Peter Underwood (parapsychologist)
2014
British parapsychologist (1923–2014)
Arik Einstein
2013
Israeli musical artist
Jane Kean
2013
American actress (1923–2013)
Saul Leiter
2013
American photographer and painter (1923–2013)
Tony Musante
2013
American actor (1936–2013)
Celso Ad. Castillo
2012
Filipino film director and screenwriter
Peter Marsh (athlete)
2012
Joseph E. Murray
2012
American plastic surgeon (1919–2012)
M. C. Nambudiripad
2012
Indian popular science writer and translator
Manon Cleary
2011
American painter
Leroy Drumm
2010
American songwriter (1936 – 2010)
Silvestre S. Herrera
2007
WWII US Army Pfc Medal of Honor France 1945 Mexican-American
Mel Tolkin
2007
American comedy writer (1913–2007)
Herb McKenley
2007
Jamaican sprinter
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
2006
Portuguese poet (1923–2006)
Dave Cockrum
2006
American comics artist (1943–2006)
Isaac Gálvez
2006
Spanish cyclist (1975–2006)
Raúl Velasco
2006
Mexican television presenter
Takanori Arisawa
2005
Japanese composer and arranger
Stan and Jan Berenstain
2005
American author and illustrator duo
Mark Craney
2005
American drummer (1952–2005)
Philippe de Broca
2004
French film director (1933–2004)
C. Walter Hodges
2004
English artist and illustrator (1909–2004)
Soulja Slim
2003
American rapper (1977–2003)
Stefan Wul
2003
French writer
Polo Montañez
2002
Musical artist
Verne Winchell
2002
American businessman/race horse owner
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
2001
Sámi writer, musician and artist (1943–2001)
1900s
Jonathan Kwitny
1998
American journalist
Marguerite Henry
1997
American novelist
Michael Bentine
1996
British comedian (1922–1996)
Paul Rand
1996
American graphic designer (1914–1996)
David Bache
1994
English automobile designer (1925–1994)
Arturo Rivera y Damas
1994
César Guerra-Peixe
1993
Brazilian musician (1914–1993)
Ed Heinemann
1991
Aircraft designer
Bob Johnson (ice hockey, born 1931)
1991
American ice hockey coach
Ahmed Abdallah
1989
President of the Comoros from 1978 to 1989
Thomas George Lanphier Jr.
1987
United States Army Air Forces officer
J. P. Guilford
1987
United States psychologist
Peter Hujar
1987
American photographer (1934–1987)
Betico Croes
1986
Aruban politician
Vivien Thomas
1985
American laboratory supervisor (1910–1985)
Juhan Aavik
1982
Estonian composer (1884–1982)
Pete DePaolo
1981
American racing driver (1898–1980)
Max Euwe
1981
Dutch chess grandmaster (1901–1981)
Ford Beebe
1978
American screenwriter, film director (1888–1978)
Frank Rosolino
1978
American jazz trombonist (1926–1978)
Yoshibayama Junnosuke
1977
Japanese sumo wrestler
Cyril Connolly
1974
English writer (1903–1974)
John Rostill
1973
English bass guitarist
James Alberione
1971
Italian Catholic priest (1884–1971)
Amelita Galli-Curci
1963
Italian coloratura soprano (1882–1963)
Albert Sarraut
1962
French politician (1872–1962)
Albert Ketèlbey
1959
English composer and pianist (1875–1959)
Tommy Dorsey
1956
American jazz trombonist and bandleader (1905–1956)
Bill Doak
1954
American baseball player (1891–1954)
Sven Hedin
1952
Swedish geographer, explorer, photographer, and illustrator (1865–1952)
Hedwig Courths-Mahler
1950
German writer (1867–1950)
Edward O'Hare
1943
US Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1914–1943)
Ernest Lapointe
1941
Canadian politician (1876–1941)
Silvestras Žukauskas
1937
Lithuanian general
Şükrü Naili Gökberk
1936
Turkish politician
Mykhailo Hrushevsky
1934
Ukrainian historian and politician (1866–1934)
John Cockburn (Australian politician)
1929
Australian politician (1850–1929)
Reinhard Scheer
1928
German admiral (1863–1928)
Ernest Belfort Bax
1926
English barrister, journalist, philosopher, socialist and historian (1854–1926)
John Browning
1926
American firearms designer (1855–1926)
Semen Karetnyk
1920
Ukrainian revolutionary (1893–1920)
Felipe Ángeles
1919
Mexican general and revolutionary
Elsie Inglis
1917
Scottish doctor (1864–1917)
Joachim III of Constantinople
1912
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1878 to 1884 and from 1901 to 1912
1800s
Coventry Patmore
1896
English poet and literary critic (1823–1896)
George Edward Dobson
1895
Irish zoologist
Charles Lavigerie
1892
French Catholic cardinal and missionary (1825–1892)
Thomas Andrews (scientist)
1885
Irish chemist and physicist (1813–1885)
Sojourner Truth
1883
African-American activist (1797–1883)
Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
1882
Prussian politician (1805–1882)
Pavel Kiselyov
1872
Russian military officer and reformer
Benjamin Greene (brewer)
1860
Founder of Greene King breweries
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
1857
German poet and novelist (1788–1857)
Adam Mickiewicz
1855
PoIish writer and activist (1798–1855)
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
1851
Prime Minister of France and French Marshal (1769–1851)
John Loudon McAdam
1836
Scottish engineer and road-builder (1756–1836)
Thomas Buck Reed
1829
American politician
Before 1800
James Steuart (economist)
1780
Scottish nobleman and economist (1712–1780)
John Hudson (classicist)
1719
English classical scholar (1662–1719)
Daniel Purcell
1717
English composer; relative of Henry Purcell
Marquard Gude
1689
German archaeologist
Philippe Quinault
1688
French dramatist and librettist
Luis Méndez de Haro
1661
Spanish political figure and art collector
Henry Ireton
1651
English politician and soldier (1611–1651)
John Spottiswoode
1639
Scottish archbishop (1565–1639)
Ralph Agas
1621
Englist land surveyor (c. 1540–1621)
Isabella I of Castile
1504
Queen of Castile and León from 1474 to 1504
Diego Fernández de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma
1473
Sylvester Gozzolini
1267
Italian Catholic saint (1177–1267)
Al-Aziz Muhammad
1236
Ayyubid emir of Aleppo from 1216 to 1236
Swanehilde of Saxony
1014
Conrad of Constance
975
German bishop and saint
Li Congyan
946
Pope Siricius
399
Bishop of Rome from 384 to 399