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December 26 Deaths in History - December 26 Birthdays - December 26 Events
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December 26, 2004 Reggie White, football player, dies at 43 December 26, 2002 Herb Ritts, photographer, dies at 50 December 26, 2001 Nigel Hawthorne, actor, The Madness of King George, dies at 72 December 26, 2000 Jason Robards, actor, All the President's Men, dies at 78 December 26, 2000 Leo Gordon, actor/writer, War and Remembrance, dies at 78 December 26, 1999 Curtis Mayfield, composer/singer, People Get Ready, dies at 57 December 26, 1997 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81 December 26, 1997 John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at 92 December 26, 1994 Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Neth welfare worker, dies at 74 December 26, 1994 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/South African economist/author, dies December 26, 1994 Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72), dies December 26, 1994 Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 80 December 26, 1994 Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85 December 26, 1994 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61 December 26, 1993 Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80 December 26, 1992 Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74 December 26, 1992 Constance Carpenter, actress (2 Worlds), dies of stroke at 87 December 26, 1992 John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies December 26, 1992 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80 December 26, 1991 Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70 December 26, 1991 Sam Cresson, dies at 73 December 26, 1989 Lennox Berkeley, composer, dies at 86 December 26, 1989 Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies December 26, 1988 John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90 December 26, 1986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84 December 26, 1985 Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53 December 26, 1977 Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81 December 26, 1977 Ivan Rezak, composer, dies at 53 December 26, 1976 Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64 December 26, 1974 Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80 December 26, 1974 Knudage Riisager, composer, dies at 77 December 26, 1974 Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68 December 26, 1973 Harold B Lee, U.S. head of Mormon Church, dies at 74 December 26, 1973 Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at 69 December 26, 1973 William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at 73 December 26, 1972 Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1945-53), dies in Kansas City, Missouri at 88 December 26, 1972 Harry S. Truman, American President December 26, 1971 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57 December 26, 1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 December 26, 1966 Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88 December 26, 1966 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, singer (Armoede, Finale), dies at 91 December 26, 1966 Noel Gallon, composer, dies at 75 December 26, 1965 Anthonie Donker, Dutch [Prof N Donkersloot], literary, dies at 63 December 26, 1963 "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies December 26, 1960 Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at 54 December 26, 1958 Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday December 26, 1957 Artur Malawski, composer, dies at 53 December 26, 1956 Holmes Herbert, actor (The Kiss), dies at 74 December 26, 1952 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59 December 26, 1950 Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47 December 26, 1950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68 December 26, 1942 Bosinier de la Chapelle, Fren murderer of adm Darlan, executed at 24 December 26, 1937 Ivor Gurney, composer, dies at 47 December 26, 1933 Lunatscharski, writer, dies December 26, 1918 Bertram Luard-Selby, composer, dies at 65 December 26, 1917 Louise J Gautier, French poet/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71 December 26, 1916 Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81 December 26, 1909 Frederic Remington, American Artist December 26, 1890 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86 December 26, 1887 Jules Francois Blasini, Curaeaos pianist/composer, dies at 40 December 26, 1879 Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, dies December 26, 1866 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49 December 26, 1862 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato December 26, 1861 Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate brig-gen, commits suicide at 52 December 26, 1837 Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87 December 26, 1836 Hans Georg Nageli, composer, dies at 63 December 26, 1827 Jan David Holland, composer, dies at 81 December 26, 1797 John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 December 26, 1776 Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel/mercenary, dies in battle December 26, 1771 Claude A Helvetius, French encyclopedist (L'esprit), dies at 56 December 26, 1740 Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies December 26, 1736 Antonio Caldara, composer, dies December 26, 1679 John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53 December 26, 1676 Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter, dies December 26, 1658 Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78 December 26, 1627 Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies December 26, 1624 Simon Marius, astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54 December 26, 1574 Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at 50 December 26, 1530 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47 December 26, 1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan, murdered December 26, 267 Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies |