October 26 Deaths |
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| October 26th, 2007 (October 26 2007) | Death | Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (born in 1947) | |
| October 26th, 2007 (October 26 2007) | Death | Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (born in 1943) | |
| October 26th, 2007 (October 26 2007) | Death | Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA polymerase (born in 1918) | |
| October 26th, 2007 (October 26 2007) | Death | Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (born in 1934) | |
| October 26th, 2006 (October 26 2006) | Death | Pontus Hulten, Swedish art collector and museum director (born in 1924) | |
| October 26th, 2005 (October 26 2005) | Death | Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (born in 1958) | |
| October 26th, 2004 (October 26 2004) | Death | Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (born in 1924) | |
| October 26th, 2002 (October 26 2002) | Death | Jacques Massu, French general (born in 1908) | |
| October 26th, 2002 (October 26 2002) | Death | Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (born in 1979) | |
| October 26th, 1999 (October 26 1999) | Death | Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (born in 1938) | |
| October 26th, 1997 (October 26 1997) | Death | Joe Cinque, Civil Engineer (b 1978) | |
| October 26th, 1995 (October 26 1995) | Death | Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (born in 1913) | |
| October 26th, 1994 (October 26 1994) | Death | Wilbert Harrison, American singer (born in 1929) | |
| October 26th, 1989 (October 26 1989) | Death | Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (born in 1904) | |
| October 26th, 1986 (October 26 1986) | Death | Jackson Scholz, American runner (born in 1897) | |
| October 26th, 1984 (October 26 1984) | Death | Gus Mancuso, baseball player (born in 1905) | |
| October 26th, 1979 (October 26 1979) | Death | Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (born in 1917) | |
| October 26th, 1978 (October 26 1978) | Death | Alexander Gerschenkron, Russian-born economic historian (born in 1904) | |
| October 26th, 1972 (October 26 1972) | Death | Igor Sikorsky, Kiev, Russian Empire (currently Ukraine) born inventor (born in 1889) | |
| October 26th, 1971 (October 26 1971) | Death | Vincent Coleman, American actor (born in 1901) | |
| October 26th, 1966 (October 26 1966) | Death | Alma Cogan, English singer (born in 1932) | |
| October 26th, 1965 (October 26 1965) | Death | Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (born in 1949) | |
| October 26th, 1962 (October 26 1962) | Death | Louise Beavers, American actress (born in 1902) | |
| October 26th, 1957 (October 26 1957) | Death | Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (born in 1896) | |
| October 26th, 1957 (October 26 1957) | Death | Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (born in 1883) | Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes |
| October 26th, 1956 (October 26 1956) | Death | Walter Gieseking, French pianist (born in 1895) | |
| October 26th, 1952 (October 26 1952) | Death | Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (born in 1895) | |
| October 26th, 1947 (October 26 1947) | Death | Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (born in 1862) | |
| October 26th, 1945 (October 26 1945) | Death | Paul Pelliot, French explorer (born in 1878) | |
| October 26th, 1945 (October 26 1945) | Death | Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (born in 1863) | |
| October 26th, 1944 (October 26 1944) | Death | Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (born in 1857) | |
| October 26th, 1944 (October 26 1944) | Death | William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1881) | William Temple Quotes |
| October 26th, 1943 (October 26 1943) | Death | Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (born in 1862) | |
| October 26th, 1941 (October 26 1941) | Death | Arkady Gaidar, Russian children s writer (born in 1904) | |
| October 26th, 1937 (October 26 1937) | Death | Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki, Polish general (born in 1867) | |
| October 26th, 1931 (October 26 1931) | Death | Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (born in 1859) | |
| October 26th, 1930 (October 26 1930) | Death | Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (born in 1872) | |
| October 26th, 1909 (October 26 1909) | Death | Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (born in 1841) | |
| October 26th, 1902 (October 26 1902) | Death | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (born in 1815) | |
| October 26th, 1896 (October 26 1896) | Death | Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (born in 1827) | |
| October 26th, 1890 (October 26 1890) | Death | Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (born in 1826) | |
| October 26th, 1866 (October 26 1866) | Death | John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (born in 1803) | |
| October 26th, 1864 (October 26 1864) | Death | "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (born in 1839) | |
| October 26th, 1817 (October 26 1817) | Death | Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (born in 1727) | |
| October 26th, 1806 (October 26 1806) | Death | John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (born in 1752) | |
| October 26th, 1803 (October 26 1803) | Death | Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (born in 1721) | |
| October 26th, 1773 (October 26 1773) | Death | Amedee-Francois Frezier, French military engineer and explorer (born in 1682) | |
| October 26th, 1764 (October 26 1764) | Death | William Hogarth, British painter (born in 1697) | |
| October 26th, 1751 (October 26 1751) | Death | Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (born in 1702) | |
| October 26th, 1717 (October 26 1717) | Death | Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (born in 1657) | |
| October 26th, 1686 (October 26 1686) | Death | John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (born in 1623) | |
| October 26th, 1679 (October 26 1679) | Death | Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (born in 1621) | |
| October 26th, 1675 (October 26 1675) | Death | William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (born in 1609) | Charles Sprague Quotes |
| October 26th, 1671 (October 26 1671) | Death | Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (born in 1593) | |
| October 26th, 1633 (October 26 1633) | Death | Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (born in 1596) | |
| October 26th, 1440 (October 26 1440) | Death | Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (born in 1404) | |
| October 26th, 1235 (October 26 1235) | Death | King Andrew II of Hungary (born in 1175) | |
| October 26th, 0899 (October 26 0899) | Death | Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (born in 849) | |
