Deaths on 26 September
2000s
John Ashton (actor)
2024
American actor (1948–2024)
Jacques Chirac
2019
President of France from 1995 to 2007
Toughie (frog)
2016
Last known Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog (2005-2016)
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich
2015
Brazilian zoologist
Sidney Phillips
2015
American physician
Ana Seneviratne
2015
Sri Lankan diplomat
Jim Boeke
2014
American football player (1938–2014)
Sam Hall (writer)
2014
American screenwriter
Gerry Neugebauer
2014
American astronomer (1932–2014)
Tamir Sapir
2014
Georgian born-American businessman
Azizan Abdul Razak
2013
Malaysian politician (1944–2013)
Seánie Duggan
2013
Irish hurler (1922–2013)
Mario Montez
2013
Puerto Rican actor
Sos Sargsyan
2013
Soviet and Armenian actor (1929–2013)
M'el Dowd
2012
American actress and singer (1933–2012)
Sylvia Fedoruk
2012
Canadian curler and politician
Eugene Genovese
2012
American historian (1930–2012)
Sam Steiger
2012
American politician and media personality (1929–2012)
Bob Cassilly
2011
American sculptor, entrepreneur, and creative director
Terry Newton
2010
Former GB & England international rugby league footballer
Gloria Stuart
2010
American actress and painter (1910–2010)
Marc Moulin
2008
Belgian musician and journalist (1942–2008)
Paul Newman
2008
American actor (1925–2008)
Bill Wirtz
2007
American businessman (1929–2007)
Byron Nelson
2006
American professional golfer (1912–2006)
Iva Toguri D'Aquino
2006
Japanese-American propagandist (1916–2006)
Helen Cresswell
2005
English children's writer (1934–2005)
Marianna Komlos
2004
Canadian bodybuilder (1969-2004)
Shawn Lane
2003
American musician (1963–2003)
Robert Palmer
2003
English singer and songwriter (1949–2003)
Nils Bohlin
2002
Swedish inventor
Richard Mulligan
2000
American actor (1932–2000)
Baden Powell (guitarist)
2000
Brazilian guitarist
1900s
Oseola McCarty
1999
American philanthropist (1908–1999)
Betty Carter
1998
American jazz singer-songwriter (1929–1998)
Dorothy Kingsley
1997
American screenwriter
Nicu Ceaușescu
1996
Romanian physicist and politician (1951–1996)
Kalju Pitksaar
1995
Estonian chess player
Billy Vaughn
1991
American musician (1919–1991)
Hiram Abas
1990
Turkish intelligence official
Alberto Moravia
1990
Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990)
Hemant Kumar
1989
Indian singer and music director (1920–1989)
Branko Zebec
1988
Croatian footballer and manager
Andi Ramang
1987
Indonesian footballer (1924–1987)
Herbert Tichy
1987
Austrian author, geologist, journalist and climber
Paquirri
1984
Spanish bullfighter (1948–1984)
John Facenda
1984
American broadcaster and sports announcer (1913–1984)
Alec Hurwood
1982
Australian cricketer
Arthur Hunnicutt
1979
American actor (1910–1979)
Manne Siegbahn
1978
Swedish physicist (1886–1978)
Uday Shankar
1977
Indian dancer, choreographer, actor
Leopold Ružička
1976
Croatian-Swiss chemist (1887–1976)
Samuel Flagg Bemis
1973
American historian and biographer
Ralph Earnhardt
1973
American racing driver (1928–1973)
Anna Magnani
1973
Italian actress (1908–1973)
Charles Correll
1972
American comedian, actor and writer (1890–1972)
Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin
1968
Daniel Johnson Sr.
1968
Premier of Quebec from 1966 to 1968
Władysław Kędra
1968
Polish pianist
James Fitzmaurice
1965
Irish aviation pioneer
Charles Erwin Wilson
1961
5th US Secretary of Defense (1890–1961)
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
1959
4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1959
Leslie Morshead
1959
Australian general (1889–1959)
Teodor Ussisoo
1959
Estonian interior architect
A. Powell Davies
1957
Unitarian clergyman
Ellen Roosevelt
1954
American tennis player
Xu Beihong
1953
Chinese painter (1895–1953)
George Santayana
1952
Spanish American philosopher (1863–1952)
Hans Cloos
1951
German geologist
Hugh Lofting
1947
English-American children's writer (1886–1947)
William Strunk Jr.
1946
American professor of English language (1869–1946)
Béla Bartók
1945
Hungarian composer (1881–1945)
Henri Fertet
1943
French resistance fighter
Bessie Smith
1937
American blues singer (1892–1937)
Andy Adams (writer)
1935
American writer
Iván Persa
1935
Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest and writer
Charles Wade
1922
Australian politician
Lafcadio Hearn
1904
Writer and translator (1850–1904)
John Fitzwilliam Stairs
1904
Canadian politician (1848–1904)
Levi Strauss
1902
German-American businessman (1829–1902)
1800s
Hermann Grassmann
1877
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
August Ferdinand Möbius
1868
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
Thomas Clarkson
1846
English abolitionist (1760–1846)
Teresa Casati
1830
Italian noblewoman and revolutionary (1787–1830)
José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle
1825
President of Peru from 1823 to 1824
Daniel Boone
1820
American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)
Jurij Vega
1802
Slovene mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer
William Billings
1800
American choral composer
Before 1800
Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro
1764
Spanish monk and scholar (1676–1764)
Antoine Parent
1716
French mathematician
Wakisaka Yasuharu
1626
16/17th-century Japanese warlord (daimyō) of Awaji Island
Charles Grey, 7th Earl of Kent
1623
English noble
Taichang Emperor
1620
Emperor of China in 1620
Claude Le Jeune
1600
Franco-Flemish composer (1528/30 – c. 1600)
Amias Paulet
1588
English diplomat and Governor of Jersey
Didier de Saint-Jaille
1536
Juan de Torquemada (cardinal)
1468
Spanish ecclesiastic (1388–1468)
Francesco Zabarella
1417
Italian cardinal and canonist
Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria
1413
Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt from 1375 (1337–1413)
Jovan Uglješa
1371
Serbian nobleman
William II, Count of Hainaut
1345
Count of Hainaut from 1337 to 1345
Ibn Taymiyya
1328
Islamic scholar and jurist (1263–1328)
Cecco d'Ascoli
1327
Italian physician and poet (1257–1327)
Gottfried von Hagenau
1313
Medieval priest, physician, theologian and poet from Alsace, France
Margaret, Maid of Norway
1290
Queen-designate of Scotland from 1286 to 1290
Fujiwara no Teika
1241
Japanese poet and court noble
Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi
862
Leader of the Muwallad Banu Qasi
Berowulf
800