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July 26 is the 207th day of the year(208th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 158 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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615–K'inich Janaab' Pakal I, aged 12, is crowned ruler of theMayan city ofPalenque.
1309–Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is recognised asKing of the Romans byPope Clement V.
1469–Wars of the Roses: Forces ofEdward IV of England defeat those ofRichard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick in theBattle of Edgecote Moor.
1533–Atahualpa dies at the hands ofFrancisco Pizarro's Conquistadors, marking the end of theInca Empire.
1581– The northernLow Countries declare independence from KingPhilip II of Spain.
1745– The first recordedwomen's cricket match takes place inGuildford,Surrey,England.
1758– French and Indian War: TheSiege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of theGulf of Saint Lawrence.
1775–Benjamin Franklin is named Postmaster–General by theUnited States Congress.
1788–New York ratifies theUnited States Constitution, becoming the 11th State.
1803– TheSurrey Iron Railway opens in SouthLondon.
1805– Anearthquake in centralItaly kills an estimated 26,000 people.
1822–José de San Martín arrives inGuayaquil, present–dayEcuador, to meet withSimon Bolivar.
1822– First day of the three–dayBattle of Dervenakia between theOttoman Empire, led byMahmud Dramali Pasha, and aGreek Revolutionary force led byTheodoros Kolokotronis.
1847–Liberia becomes independent, withJoseph Jenkins Roberts being its firstPresident.
1861–American Civil War:George B. McClellan assumes control of theArmy of thePotomac, following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Bull Run.
1882–Boer settlers found theRepublic ofStellaland in present–daySouth Africa.
1882–Richard Wagner'sopera Parsifal is first performed inBayreuth,Bavaria.
1887–Unua Libro, the 'First book of Esperanto', is published.
1891–France takes control ofTahiti.

1901– 1950

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1908– TheFBI is founded.
1910– The Rail Tunnel under the Detroit River linkingWindsor, Ontario andDetroit, Michigan is opened.
1914–Serbia andBulgaria interrupt theirdiplomatic relationship.
1936– TheAxis Powers decide to intervene in theSpanish Civil War.
1936–Edward VIII of the United Kingdom unveils the CanadianVimy Memorial.
1937–Spanish Civil War: End of theBattle of Brunete.
1944–World War II: TheSoviet army enters German–occupiedLviv, in present–dayUkraine.
1944– The first German V–2rocket hits theUnited Kingdom.
1945– The British Conservative Party underWinston Churchill loses the General Election to theLabour Party, led byClement Attlee.
1945– ThePotsdam Declaration is signed.
1946–Aloha Airlines begins service.
1947– TheNational Security Act of1947 is signed byUS PresidentHarry S. Truman.
1948–Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981,desegregating theUnited States Military.

1951– 2000

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1951–Walt Disney movieAlice in Wonderland has its first showing inLondon.
1952–Argentina'sFirst Lady Eva Perón dies aged 33.
1953– Begin of theCuban Revolution:Fidel Castro later helps to found the26th July Movement.
1956– TheSuez Crisis begins, afterEgyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalises theSuez Canal.
1957–President Carlos Castillo Armas ofGuatemala is assassinated.
1958– TheExplorer 4 space probe is launched.
1963– Aearthquake strikesSkopje in the present–dayRepublic of Macedonia, killing around 1,100 people.
1965– TheMaldives gain full independence from theUnited Kingdom.
1971–Apollo 15 launches from theKennedy Space Center, withDavid Scott,James Irwin andAlfred Worden on board, to theMoon.
1974–Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the GreekGovernment.
1977– The National Assembly ofQuebec imposes the use ofFrench as an officiallanguage of the ProvincialGovernment.
1990– TheAmericans With Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed intolaw by US PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush.
1994–Boris Yeltsin orders the removal ofRussian troops fromEstonia.
1994– Abomb explodes outside theIsraeli Embassy inLondon.
1998–Cambodia holds its first election since regaining full independence.

From 2001

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2005–Space Shuttle Discovery launches fromCape Canaveral, Florida. It is the firstSpace Shuttle mission since theSpace Shuttle Columbia disaster ofFebruary 1,2003.
2005– Nearly ameter ofrain falls in one day inMumbai, causingflooding.
2006– A conference begins inRome,Italy to discuss a solution to theIsrael-Lebanon War, though without the participation ofIsrael,Hezbollah,Hamas andSyria.
2008– 56 people are killed in abombing inAhmedabad,India.
2013–2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro pleadsguilty to all charges in order to avoid thedeath penalty. He commitssuicide inprison onSeptember 3.
2016–Mass murder withknife is carried out in an institution ofSagamihara inJapan for persons withdisabilities out ofdisability hate crime; 19 people are killed.
2016–Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar–poweredaircraft to complete a flight around the world.
2016– Roman Catholic priestJacques Hamel is murdered at his church inNormandy,France, by an attacker linked to the self–proclaimedIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2016–Hillary Clinton is officially nominated by theDemocratic Party forPresident of the United States, becoming the first woman to be nominated for this position by a major US political party.
2017– US PresidentDonald Trump announces viaTwitter that he intends to banTransgender people from serving in theUnited States Military.
2019– The 2019Pan American Games inLima,Peru, begin.

Births

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Up to 1900

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1030–Stanislaus of Szczepanow, Polish bishop and martyr (d.1074)
1575–Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen ofDenmark andNorway (d.1612)
1678–Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d.1711)
1721–Samuel von Brukenthal,Governor ofTransylvania (d.1803)
1739–George Clinton, 4thVice President of the United States and 1st StateGovernor ofNew York (d.1812)
1756–Maria Fitzherbert, first wife of KingGeorge IV of the United Kingdom (d.1837)
1782–John Field, Irishcomposer (d.1837)
1787–Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck, Germanbotanist andpharmacologist (d.1837)
1791–Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (d.1844)
1796–George Catlin, American painter (d.1872)
1801–Maria Röhl, Swedish artist (d.1875)
1802–Mariano Arista,President ofMexico (d.1855)
1829–Auguste Beernaert, Belgianstatesman and 14thPrime Minister of Belgium (d.1912)
1842–Alfred Marshall, Britisheconomist (d.1924)
1844–Stefan Drzewiecki, Polishscientist andinventor (d.1938)
1846–Texas Jack Omohundro, Americanscout,cowboy andactor (d.1880)
1855–Ferdinand Tönnies, Germansociologist andphilosopher (d.1936)
1856–George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (d.1950)
1858–Tom Garrett, Australiancricketer (d.1943)
1862–George P. Cortelyou, American politician (d.1940)
1865–Philipp Scheidemann,Chancellor of Germany (d.1939)
1866–Princess Milica of Montenegro (d.1951)
1874–Serge Koussevitzky, Russianconductor (d.1961)
1875–Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d.1961)
1875–Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d.1939)
1878–Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (d.1937)
1880–Volodymyr Vynnychenko,Ukrainian statesman (d.1951)
1882–Dixie Bibb Graves, American politician andUnited States Senator forAlabama (d.1965)
1893–E. R. Dodds, Irish classical scholar (d.1979)
1893–George Grosz, German painter (d.1959)
1894–Aldous Huxley, British writer (d.1963)
1895–Jane Bunford,UK's tallest woman (d.1922)
1895–Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (d.1964)
1896–Tom Birkin, English racing driver (d.1933)
1897–Paul Gallico, Americannovelist (d.1976)

1901– 1950

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1901–Umberto Caligaris, Italianfootballer (d.1940)
1903–Estes Kefauver, American politician (d.1963)
1904–Edwin Albert Link, American inventor of the flight simulator (d.1981)
1906–Irena Illakowicz, Polish intelligence agent (d.1943)
1907–Donal McLaughlin, Americanarchitect and graphic artist (d.2009)
1908–Lucien Wercollier,Luxembourg sculptor (d.2000)
1909–Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, British politician (d.1994)
1909–Vivian Vance, American actress (d.1979)
1910–Yann Fouéré,Breton political activist (d.2011)
1914–Erskine Hawkins, Americantrumpeter andbandleader (d.1993)
1914–C. Farris Bryant, 34thGovernor ofFlorida (d.2002)
1916–Dean Brooks, Americanphysician andactor (d.2013)
1917–Alberta Adams, American singer (d.2014)
1917–Bertil Nordahl, Swedishfootballer (d.1998)
1918–Marjorie Lord, American actress (d.2015)
1919–James Lovelock, Britishscientist
1919–Angelo Felici, Italiancardinal (d.2007)
1920–Mario Fasino, Italian politician,President ofSicily (d.2017)
1921–Amedeo Amadei, Italianfootballer (d.2013)
1922–Gilberto Agustoni, Swisscardinal (d.2017)
1922–Blake Edwards, American movie director (d.2010)
1922–Jason Robards, American actor (d.2000)
1923–Jan Berenstain, American writer (d.2012)
1923–Biff Elliot, American actor (d.2012)
1925–Jerzy Einhorn, Polish–born Swedish doctor and politician (d.2000)
1925–Joseph Engelberger, Americanphysicist,engineer andentrepreneur (d.2015)
1925–Gene Gutowski, Polish–Americanmovie producer (d.2016)
1925–Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d.2014)
1926–James Best, American actor (d.2015)
1928–Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson musical family (d.2018)
1928–Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d.1999)
1928–Francesco Cossiga, 8thPresident ofItaly (d.2010)
1928–Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (d.2012)
1928–Bernice Rubens, Welsh writer (d.2004)
1928–Ibn-e-Safi,Pakistani poet (d.1980)
1929–Alexis Weissenberg,Bulgarian pianist (d.2012)
1930–Barbara Jefford, English actress
1932–James Stafford, Americancardinal
1932–Robert Timlin, American judge (d.2017)
1933–Edmund Phelps, Americaneconomist
1933–Lance Percival, English actor, comedian and singer (d.2015)
1936–Mary Millar, English actress (d.1998)
1936–Lawrie McMenemy, Englishfootballer and coach
1939–John Howard, 25thPrime Minister of Australia
1940–Brigitte Hamann, German–Austrianwriter andhistorian (d.2016)
1940–Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide toRobert F. Kennedy (d.1969)
1940–Jürgen Kurbjuhn, Germanfootballer (d.2014)
1942–Hannelore Elsner, German actress (d.2019)
1942–Vladimir Meciar, formerPrime Minister ofSlovakia
1943–Peter Hyams, American director
1943–Mick Jagger, British musician
1945–Helen Mirren, British actress
1945–Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Greek jurist
1946–Erwin Huber, German politician
1947–Alejandra Da Passano, Argentine actress (d.2014)
1947–Emilio de Villota, Spanish racing driver
1949–Sharron Angle, American politician
1949–Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai politician
1949–Roger Taylor, British musician (Queen)
1950–Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950–Susan George, English actress

1951– 1975

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1951–Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
1952–Heiner Brand, Germanhandball player and coach
1953–Felix Magath, German footballer
1954–Mareike Carrière, German actress (d.2014)
1954–Vitas Gerulaitis, Americantennis player (d.1994)
1955–Asif Ali Zardari, formerPresident of Pakistan
1955–Aleksandrs Starkovs,Latvian footballer
1956–Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
1957–Yuen Biao, Chinese actor
1957–Nana Visitor, American actress
1959–Kevin Spacey, American actor
1961–Gary Cherone, Americansinger-songwriter
1962–Sigga, Icelandic singer
1964–Sandra Bullock, American actress
1965–Jimmy Dore, American comedian
1965–Jeremy Piven, American actor
1966–Angelo Di Livio, Italian footballer
1967–Anthony Durante, American wrestler (d.2003)
1967–Jason Statham, English actor and producer
1968–Olivia Williams, English actress
1969–Tanni Grey-Thompson, Britishwheelchair athlete
1971–Khaled Mahmud,Bangladeshi cricketer
1971–Andrea Fortunato, Italian footballer (d.1995)
1971–Kendall Francois, Americanmurderer (d.2014)
1973–Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1975–Elizabeth Truss, British politician

From 1976

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1976–Pavel Pardo, Mexican footballer
1977–Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977–Emma Barton, English actress
1979–Peter Sarno, Canadianice hockey player
1980–Jacinda Ardern, 40thPrime Minister of New Zealand
1980–Madeleine West, Australian actress
1980–Dave Baksh, Canadianguitarist (Sum 41)
1980–Sonali Shah, Englishtelevision presenter
1981–Maicon Douglas Sisenando, Brazilianfootballer
1983–Kelly Clark, Americansnowboarder
1983–Stephen Makinwa,Nigerian footballer
1983–Delonte West, Americanbasketball player
1985–Zhou Bichang, Chinesesinger-songwriter andactress
1985–Brice Feillu, French road racing cyclist
1985–Gaël Clichy, Frenchfootballer
1985–Leonardo Ulloa, Argentinefootballer
1987–Fredy Montero, Colombianfootballer
1988–Sayaka Akimoto, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1988–Francia Raisa, American actress
1988–Diego Perotti, Argentinefootballer
1989–Ivian Sarcos,Venezuelan model
1990–Jesus Herrada, Spanishmotorcycle racer
1990–Bianca Santos, American actress
1993–Elizabeth Gillies, American actress and singer
1993–Taylor Momsen, American actress and singer
1993–Caleb Stanko, Americansoccer player
1993–Stormzy, English rapper
1996–Tatiana Vorobjova,Estonian tennis player
1998–Maya Sakura, Japanesesinger andactress

Deaths

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Up to 1900

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342–Jin Chengdi,Emperor ofChina (b.321)
432–Pope Celestine I
796–Offa, King of Mercia
811–Nicephorus I,Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
1380–Emperor Komyo of Japan (b.1322)
1471–Pope Paul II (b.1417)
1506–Anne of Foix-Candale,Queen ofHungary andBohemia (b.1478)
1533–Atahualpa,Inca ruler (b.1502)
1592–Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b.1524)
1605–Miguel de Benavides, Spanishclergyman andSinologist (b.1552)
1611–Horio Yoshiharu, Japanesewarlord (b.1542)
1630–Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b.1562)
1680–John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b.1647)
1684–Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italianmathematician (b.1646)
1712–Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b.1631)
1723–Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b.1660)
1726–Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swissmathematician (b.1695)
1801–Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (b.1756)
1863–John J. Crittenden,Governor ofKentucky (b.1786)
1863–Sam Houston,President of theRepublic ofTexas (b.1793)
1867– KingOtto of Greece (b.1815)

1901– 1950

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1915–James Murray, Englishphilologist (b.1837)
1919– SirEdward Poynter, British painter (b.1836)
1922–Ciro Luis Urriola, 8thPresident ofPanama (b.1863)
1925–Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b.1888)
1925–Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b.1848)
1925–William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b.1860)
1926–Robert Todd Lincoln, Americanlawyer andpolitician (b.1843)
1935–Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b.1871)
1937–Gerda Taro, Germanphotographer (b.1910)
1941–Henri Lebesgue, Frenchmathematician (b.1875)
1942–Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b.1900)
1943–Ruth M. Gardiner, American nurse (b.1914)
1944–Reza Shah, ruler ofIran (b.1878)

1951– 2000

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1952–Eva Perón, wife of Argentine PresidentJuan Perón (b.1919)
1953–Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b.1883)
1957–Carlos Castillo Armas,President ofGuatemala (b.1914)
1969–Frank Loesser, American composer (b.1910)
1970–Robert Taschereau, Canadian jurist (b.1896)
1971–Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b.1923)
1976–Stefanos Natsinas, Greek politician (b.1910)
1980–Ibn-e-Safi,Pakistani poet (b.1928)
1984–George Gallup, American statistician (b.1901)
1984–Ed Gein, American serial killer (b.1906)
1986–Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b.1891)
1988–Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b.1919)
1990–Brent Mydland, American musician (b.1952)
1992–Mary Wells, American singer (b.1943)
1995–George Romney,Governor ofMichigan and father ofMitt Romney (b.1907)
1999–Phaedon Gizikis,President ofGreece (b.1917)

From 2001

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2001–Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b.1913)
2002–Tony Anholt, English actor (b.1941)
2005–Mario David, Italian footballer (b.1934)
2009–Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b.1919)
2011–Margaret Olley, Australianartist (b.1923)
2011–Sakyo Komatsu, Japanesescience fiction writer (b.1931)
2012–Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b.1942)
2012–Mary Tamm, English actress (b.1950)
2013–Sung Jae-ki, South Koreanactivist (b.1967)
2013–JJ Cale, Americansinger-songwriter andmusician (b.1938)
2014–Oleh Babayev, Ukrainian politician (b.1965)
2014–Charles R. Larson, Americanadmiral (b.1936)
2014–Majid Nizami, Pakistanijournalist (b.1928)
2014–Roland Verhavert, Belgianmovie director (b.1927)
2015–Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (b.1993)
2015–Leo Reise, Jr., Canadianice hockey player (b.1922)
2015–Ann Rule, American true crime writer (b.1931)
2015–Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (b.1930)
2016–Jacques Hamel, Frenchpriest (b.1930)
2016–David A. Katz, Americanjudge (b.1933)
2016–Mohamed Khan, Egyptian film director (b.1942)
2017–Patti Deutsch, American actress (b.1943)
2017–June Foray, American voice actress (b.1917)
2017–Giovanni Battista Pichierri, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b.1943)
2017–Lawrence Pezzulo, Americandiplomat (b.1926)
2017–Maxlei dos Santos Luzia, Brazilianfootballer (b.1975)
2017–Joachim Vobbe, German Roman Catholic prelate (b.1947)
2017–Leo Kinnunen, Finnish racing driver (b.1943)
2018–Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician (b.1936)
2018–Aloyzas Kveinys, Lithuanianchess player (b.1962)
2018–María Concepción César, Argentine actress and singer (b.1926)
2018–Anne Vermeer, Dutch politician (b.1916)
2019–Graham Freudenberg, Australian political speechwriter (b.1934)
2019–Jaime Lucas y Alamino, Cubancardinal (b.1936)
2019–Kevin Roster, Americanpoker player (b.1983)
2019–Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b.1944)
2023–Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer–songwriter (b.1966)

Observances

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