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| May 26th, 2008 (May 26 2008) | Death | Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born in 1934) | |
| May 26th, 2007 (May 26 2007) | Death | J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (born in 1942) | |
| May 26th, 2006 (May 26 2006) | Event | The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless. | |
| May 26th, 2006 (May 26 2006) | Death | Edouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (born in 1963) | |
| May 26th, 2006 (May 26 2006) | Death | Kevin O Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (born in 1919) | |
| May 26th, 2005 (May 26 2005) | Death | Eddie Albert, American actor (born in 1906) | |
| May 26th, 2005 (May 26 2005) | Death | Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (born in 1928) | |
| May 26th, 2004 (May 26 2004) | Event | The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. | |
| May 26th, 2004 (May 26 2004) | Event | The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. | |
| May 26th, 2004 (May 26 2004) | Death | Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (born in 1931) | |
| May 26th, 2004 (May 26 2004) | Death | Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (born in 1934) | |
| May 26th, 2003 (May 26 2003) | Event | Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year. | |
| May 26th, 2003 (May 26 2003) | Death | Kathleen Winsor, American writer (born in 1919) | |
| May 26th, 2002 (May 26 2002) | Event | The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars. | |
| May 26th, 2002 (May 26 2002) | Event | Alvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia. | |
| May 26th, 2002 (May 26 2002) | Death | Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (born in 1932) | |
| May 26th, 2001 (May 26 2001) | Death | Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (born in 1937) | |
| May 26th, 2001 (May 26 2001) | Death | Anne Haney, American actress (born in 1934) | |
| May 26th, 2001 (May 26 2001) | Death | Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (born in 1952) | |
| May 26th, 1999 (May 26 1999) | Event | Manchester United beat Bayern Munich with 2 goals in injury time from Tedddy Shermingham and Ole Gunnar Solskj?r, this completed Uniteds historic Treble. | |
| May 26th, 1999 (May 26 1999) | Death | Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (born in 1906) | |
| May 26th, 1999 (May 26 1999) | Death | Waldo Semon, American inventor (born in 1898) | |
| May 26th, 1998 (May 26 1998) | Event | The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. | |
| May 26th, 1992 (May 26 1992) | Event | Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later. | |
| May 26th, 1991 (May 26 1991) | Event | Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. | |
| May 26th, 1991 (May 26 1991) | Event | Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223. | |
| May 26th, 1991 (May 26 1991) | Birth | Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress | Julian Quotes |
| May 26th, 1989 (May 26 1989) | Death | Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (born in 1927) | |
| May 26th, 1988 (May 26 1988) | Birth | Joel Selwood, Australian footballer | |
| May 26th, 1986 (May 26 1986) | Event | The European Community adopts the European flag. | |
| May 26th, 1983 (May 26 1983) | Event | A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed. | |
| May 26th, 1982 (May 26 1982) | Birth | Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model | |
| May 26th, 1981 (May 26 1981) | Event | The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due). | |
| May 26th, 1981 (May 26 1981) | Birth | Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer | |
| May 26th, 1981 (May 26 1981) | Birth | Irini Merkouri, Greek singer | |
| May 26th, 1979 (May 26 1979) | Birth | Elisabeth Harnois, American actress | |
| May 26th, 1979 (May 26 1979) | Birth | Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player | |
| May 26th, 1979 (May 26 1979) | Birth | Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler | |
| May 26th, 1979 (May 26 1979) | Death | George Brent, British actor (born in 1899) | |
| May 26th, 1978 (May 26 1978) | Event | In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens. | |
| May 26th, 1978 (May 26 1978) | Birth | Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter | |
| May 26th, 1978 (May 26 1978) | Death | Cybele, Greek actress (born in 1887) | |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Event | George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City s World Trade Center. | George Ade Quotes |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Birth | Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira) | |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Birth | Misaki Ito, Japanese actress | Saki Quotes |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Birth | Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist | |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Birth | Luca Toni, Italian footballer | |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Death | William Powell, American singer (The O Jays) (born in 1942) | |
| May 26th, 1976 (May 26 1976) | Birth | Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack) | |
| May 26th, 1976 (May 26 1976) | Death | Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (born in 1889) | Martin Heidegger Quotes |
| May 26th, 1976 (May 26 1976) | Death | Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared" | |
| May 26th, 1975 (May 26 1975) | Birth | Travis Lee, American baseball player | |
| May 26th, 1974 (May 26 1974) | Birth | Lars Frolander, Swedish swimmer | |
| May 26th, 1974 (May 26 1974) | Death | Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (born in 1941) | |
| May 26th, 1972 (May 26 1972) | Event | Willandra National Park is established in Australia. | |
| May 26th, 1972 (May 26 1972) | Event | The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. | |
| May 26th, 1972 (May 26 1972) | Event | The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank. | |
| May 26th, 1972 (May 26 1972) | Birth | Patsy Palmer, British actress | |
| May 26th, 1971 (May 26 1971) | Birth | Matt Stone, American television producer | |
| May 26th, 1970 (May 26 1970) | Event | The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. | |
| May 26th, 1970 (May 26 1970) | Birth | Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist | |
| May 26th, 1969 (May 26 1969) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing. | |
| May 26th, 1969 (May 26 1969) | Birth | John Baird, Canadian politician | |
| May 26th, 1969 (May 26 1969) | Birth | Musetta Vander, South African actress | |
| May 26th, 1969 (May 26 1969) | Death | Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (born in 1937) | |
| May 26th, 1969 (May 26 1969) | Death | Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation; born in 1889) | |
| May 26th, 1968 (May 26 1968) | Birth | Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark | |
| May 26th, 1968 (May 26 1968) | Birth | Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler | |
| May 26th, 1968 (May 26 1968) | Birth | Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Spanish film director | |
| May 26th, 1968 (May 26 1968) | Birth | Steve Sedgley, English footballer | |
| May 26th, 1968 (May 26 1968) | Death | Little Willie John, American singer (born in 1937) | |
| May 26th, 1967 (May 26 1967) | Birth | Phil Doyle, Australian writer | |
| May 26th, 1966 (May 26 1966) | Event | British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana. | |
| May 26th, 1966 (May 26 1966) | Birth | Helena Bonham Carter, English actress | |
| May 26th, 1966 (May 26 1966) | Birth | Zola Budd, South African athlete | |
| May 26th, 1965 (May 26 1965) | Birth | Hazel Irvine, British television presenter | |
| May 26th, 1964 (May 26 1964) | Birth | Caitlin R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer | |
| May 26th, 1964 (May 26 1964) | Birth | Lenny Kravitz, American musician | |
| May 26th, 1962 (May 26 1962) | Birth | Genie Francis, American actress | |
| May 26th, 1962 (May 26 1962) | Birth | Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor | |
| May 26th, 1962 (May 26 1962) | Birth | Colin Vearncombe, English singer,(Black) | |
| May 26th, 1961 (May 26 1961) | Birth | Tarsem Singh, Indian film director | |
| May 26th, 1960 (May 26 1960) | Birth | Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver | |
| May 26th, 1960 (May 26 1960) | Birth | Rob Murphy, American baseball player | |
| May 26th, 1959 (May 26 1959) | Birth | Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers) | |
| May 26th, 1959 (May 26 1959) | Birth | Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer | |
| May 26th, 1957 (May 26 1957) | Birth | Margaret Colin, American actress | |
| May 26th, 1957 (May 26 1957) | Birth | Francois Legault, French Canadian politician | |
| May 26th, 1957 (May 26 1957) | Birth | Kristina Olsen, American musician | |
| May 26th, 1957 (May 26 1957) | Birth | Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver | |
| May 26th, 1957 (May 26 1957) | Birth | Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician | |
| May 26th, 1956 (May 26 1956) | Birth | Frederic Dutoit, French politician | |
| May 26th, 1955 (May 26 1955) | Birth | Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef | |
| May 26th, 1955 (May 26 1955) | Birth | Wesley Walker, American football player | |
| May 26th, 1955 (May 26 1955) | Death | Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (born in 1918) | |
| May 26th, 1954 (May 26 1954) | Birth | Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist | |
| May 26th, 1954 (May 26 1954) | Birth | Danny Rolling, American murderer (died in 2006) | |
| May 26th, 1954 (May 26 1954) | Death | Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (born in 1900) | |
| May 26th, 1953 (May 26 1953) | Birth | Michael Portillo, British politician | |
| May 26th, 1952 (May 26 1952) | Birth | David Meece, Christian musician | |
| May 26th, 1951 (May 26 1951) | Birth | Sally Ride, American astronaut | |
| May 26th, 1951 (May 26 1951) | Birth | Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician | |
| May 26th, 1951 (May 26 1951) | Death | Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (born in 1880) | |
| May 26th, 1949 (May 26 1949) | Birth | Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor | Ward Cunningham Quotes |
| May 26th, 1949 (May 26 1949) | Birth | Pam Grier, American actress | |
| May 26th, 1949 (May 26 1949) | Birth | Philip Michael Thomas, American actor | |
| May 26th, 1949 (May 26 1949) | Birth | Hank Williams Jr., American singer | |
| May 26th, 1948 (May 26 1948) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force. | |
| May 26th, 1948 (May 26 1948) | Birth | Stevie Nicks, American songwriter | Stevie Nicks Quotes |
| May 26th, 1948 (May 26 1948) | Death | Theodore Morell, Hitler s personal physician (born in 1886) | Theodor Morell Quotes |
| May 26th, 1946 (May 26 1946) | Birth | Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach. | |
| May 26th, 1946 (May 26 1946) | Birth | Mick Ronson, English musician (died in 1993) | |
| May 26th, 1945 (May 26 1945) | Birth | Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who) | |
| May 26th, 1944 (May 26 1944) | Birth | Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author | |
| May 26th, 1943 (May 26 1943) | Birth | Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee | |
| May 26th, 1943 (May 26 1943) | Death | Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (born in 1893) | |
| May 26th, 1942 (May 26 1942) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place. | |
| May 26th, 1941 (May 26 1941) | Birth | Reg Bundy, British performer (died in 2003) | |
| May 26th, 1941 (May 26 1941) | Birth | Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player | |
| May 26th, 1941 (May 26 1941) | Birth | John Kaufman, sculptor | |
| May 26th, 1940 (May 26 1940) | Event | World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. | |
| May 26th, 1940 (May 26 1940) | Birth | Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician | |
| May 26th, 1940 (May 26 1940) | Birth | Levon Helm, American musician (The Band) | |
| May 26th, 1939 (May 26 1939) | Birth | Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader | |
| May 26th, 1939 (May 26 1939) | Birth | Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster | |
| May 26th, 1939 (May 26 1939) | Death | Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (born in 1865) | Horace Quotes |
| May 26th, 1938 (May 26 1938) | Event | The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session. | |
| May 26th, 1938 (May 26 1938) | Birth | William Bolcom, American composer | |
| May 26th, 1938 (May 26 1938) | Birth | Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess | |
| May 26th, 1938 (May 26 1938) | Birth | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist | |
| May 26th, 1938 (May 26 1938) | Birth | Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano | |
| May 26th, 1936 (May 26 1936) | Event | In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he spoke for 10 hours. | |
| May 26th, 1935 (May 26 1935) | Birth | Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress | |
| May 26th, 1933 (May 26 1933) | Death | Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (born in 1860) | |
| May 26th, 1933 (May 26 1933) | Death | Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (born in 1897) | |
| May 26th, 1932 (May 26 1932) | Birth | Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (died in 1980) | |
| May 26th, 1928 (May 26 1928) | Event | The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece. | |
| May 26th, 1926 (May 26 1926) | Death | Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (born in 1879) | |
| May 26th, 1924 (May 26 1924) | Death | Victor Herbert, Irish composer (born in 1859) | |
| May 26th, 1923 (May 26 1923) | Birth | James Arness, American actor | |
| May 26th, 1923 (May 26 1923) | Birth | Roy Dotrice, British actor | |
| May 26th, 1920 (May 26 1920) | Birth | Peggy Lee, American singer (died in 2002) | |
| May 26th, 1918 (May 26 1918) | Event | Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat. | |
| May 26th, 1918 (May 26 1918) | Event | The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. | |
| May 26th, 1918 (May 26 1918) | Birth | Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (died in 1985) | |
| May 26th, 1917 (May 26 1917) | Event | A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 people and injuring 689. It was the world s longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path. | |
| May 26th, 1917 (May 26 1917) | Birth | Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary | |
| May 26th, 1916 (May 26 1916) | Birth | Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (died in 1999) | |
| May 26th, 1916 (May 26 1916) | Birth | Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (died in 1972) | |
| May 26th, 1915 (May 26 1915) | Birth | Sam Edwards, American actor (died in 2004) | |
| May 26th, 1915 (May 26 1915) | Birth | Antonia Forest, British children s author (died in 2003) | |
| May 26th, 1914 (May 26 1914) | Birth | Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer | |
| May 26th, 1913 (May 26 1913) | Event | Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain s first woman magistrate. | |
| May 26th, 1913 (May 26 1913) | Birth | Peter Cushing, English actor (died in 1994) | |
| May 26th, 1912 (May 26 1912) | Birth | Janos Kadar, Prime minister of Hungary (died in 1989) | |
| May 26th, 1912 (May 26 1912) | Birth | Jay Silverheels, American actor (died in 1980) | |
| May 26th, 1911 (May 26 1911) | Birth | Ben Alexander, American actor (died in 1969) | |
| May 26th, 1909 (May 26 1909) | Birth | Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (died in 1994) | |
| May 26th, 1909 (May 26 1909) | Birth | Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (died in 2002) | |
| May 26th, 1909 (May 26 1909) | Birth | Adolfo Lopez Mateos, President of Mexico (died in 1969) | |
| May 26th, 1908 (May 26 1908) | Event | At Masjed Soleyman (???? ??????) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. | |
| May 26th, 1908 (May 26 1908) | Birth | Robert Morley, English actor (died in 1992) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| May 26th, 1908 (May 26 1908) | Birth | Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam | |
| May 26th, 1908 (May 26 1908) | Death | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (born in 1835) | |
| May 26th, 1907 (May 26 1907) | Birth | Jean Bernard, French physician (died in 2006) | |
| May 26th, 1907 (May 26 1907) | Birth | John Wayne, American actor (died in 1979) | |
| May 26th, 1907 (May 26 1907) | Death | Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (born in 1847) | |
| May 26th, 1906 (May 26 1906) | Event | Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. | |
| May 26th, 1904 (May 26 1904) | Birth | George Formby, English singer and comedian (died in 1961) | |
| May 26th, 1904 (May 26 1904) | Birth | Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (died in 2002) | |
| May 26th, 1904 (May 26 1904) | Death | Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (born in 1857) | |
| May 26th, 1902 (May 26 1902) | Death | Almon Strowger, American inventor (born in 1839) | |
| May 26th, 1899 (May 26 1899) | Birth | Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (died in 1968) | |
| May 26th, 1896 (May 26 1896) | Event | Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. | |
| May 26th, 1896 (May 26 1896) | Event | James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California. | |
| May 26th, 1895 (May 26 1895) | Birth | Dorothea Lange, American photographer (died in 1965) | |
| May 26th, 1895 (May 26 1895) | Birth | Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (died in 1971) | |
| May 26th, 1894 (May 26 1894) | Event | Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. | |
| May 26th, 1893 (May 26 1893) | Birth | Norma Talmadge, American actress (died in 1957) | |
| May 26th, 1893 (May 26 1893) | Birth | Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (died in 1962) | |
| May 26th, 1889 (May 26 1889) | Event | Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public. | |
| May 26th, 1886 (May 26 1886) | Birth | Al Jolson, American singer (died in 1950) | |
| May 26th, 1883 (May 26 1883) | Birth | Mamie Smith, American singer (died in 1946) | |
| May 26th, 1883 (May 26 1883) | Death | Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (born in 1808) | |
| May 26th, 1883 (May 26 1883) | Death | Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (born in 1788) | |
| May 26th, 1881 (May 26 1881) | Death | Jakob Bernays, German philologist (born in 1824) | Philo Quotes |
| May 26th, 1879 (May 26 1879) | Event | Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state. | |
| May 26th, 1873 (May 26 1873) | Birth | Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (died in 1958) | |
| May 26th, 1869 (May 26 1869) | Event | Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. | |
| May 26th, 1868 (May 26 1868) | Event | The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| May 26th, 1867 (May 26 1867) | Birth | Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (died in 1953) | George V of the United Kingdom Quotes |
| May 26th, 1865 (May 26 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas. | |
| May 26th, 1865 (May 26 1865) | Birth | Robert W. Chambers, American artist (died in 1933) | |
| May 26th, 1864 (May 26 1864) | Event | Montana is organized as a United States territory. | |
| May 26th, 1863 (May 26 1863) | Birth | Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (died in 1917) | |
| May 26th, 1857 (May 26 1857) | Event | Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners. | |
| May 26th, 1840 (May 26 1840) | Death | Sidney Smith, British admiral (born in 1764) | |
| May 26th, 1831 (May 26 1831) | Death | Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (born in 1798) | |
| May 26th, 1830 (May 26 1830) | Event | The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| May 26th, 1828 (May 26 1828) | Event | Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. | |
| May 26th, 1824 (May 26 1824) | Death | Capel Lofft, English writer (born in 1751) | |
| May 26th, 1822 (May 26 1822) | Birth | Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (died in 1896) | |
| May 26th, 1818 (May 26 1818) | Death | Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (born in 1761) | |
| May 26th, 1814 (May 26 1814) | Death | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (born in 1789) | |
| May 26th, 1805 (May 26 1805) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| May 26th, 1799 (May 26 1799) | Birth | Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (died in 1837) | Aleksandr Pushkin Quotes |
| May 26th, 1799 (May 26 1799) | Death | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (born in 1714) | |
| May 26th, 1770 (May 26 1770) | Event | The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks. | |
| May 26th, 1764 (May 26 1764) | Birth | Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (died in 1836) | |
| May 26th, 1762 (May 26 1762) | Death | Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (born in 1714) | Philo Quotes |
| May 26th, 1742 (May 26 1742) | Death | Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (born in 1672) | |
| May 26th, 1736 (May 26 1736) | Event | Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France. | |
| May 26th, 1703 (May 26 1703) | Death | Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (born in 1633) | Samuel Pepys Quotes |
| May 26th, 1700 (May 26 1700) | Birth | Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died in 1760) | |
| May 26th, 1689 (May 26 1689) | Birth | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (died in 1762) | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes |
| May 26th, 1685 (May 26 1685) | Death | Karl II, Elector Palatine (born in 1651) | |
| May 26th, 1679 (May 26 1679) | Death | Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (born in 1636) | |
| May 26th, 1670 (May 26 1670) | Event | In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover. | Louis XIV of France Quotes |
| May 26th, 1669 (May 26 1669) | Birth | Sebastien Vaillant, French botanist (died in 1722) | |
| May 26th, 1667 (May 26 1667) | Birth | Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (died in 1754) | Abraham Quotes |
| May 26th, 1653 (May 26 1653) | Death | Robert Filmer, English writer (born in 1588) | |
| May 26th, 1650 (May 26 1650) | Birth | John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (died in 1722) | |
| May 26th, 1648 (May 26 1648) | Death | Vincent Voiture, French poet (born in 1597) | |
| May 26th, 1647 (May 26 1647) | Event | Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut. | |
| May 26th, 1647 (May 26 1647) | Death | Alse Young, American "witch" | |
| May 26th, 1637 (May 26 1637) | Event | Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under German Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans. | |
| May 26th, 1602 (May 26 1602) | Birth | Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (died in 1674) | |
| May 26th, 1595 (May 26 1595) | Death | Philip Neri, Italian churchman (born in 1515) | |
| May 26th, 1566 (May 26 1566) | Birth | Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (died in 1603) | |
| May 26th, 1538 (May 26 1538) | Event | Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years. | John Calvin Quotes |
| May 26th, 1536 (May 26 1536) | Death | Francesco Berni, Italian poet | |
| May 26th, 1512 (May 26 1512) | Death | Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan | |
| May 26th, 1478 (May 26 1478) | Birth | Pope Clement VII (died in 1534) | |
| May 26th, 1421 (May 26 1421) | Death | Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1389) | |
| May 26th, 1328 (May 26 1328) | Event | William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII. | |
| May 26th, 1293 (May 26 1293) | Event | An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000. | |
| May 26th, 1264 (May 26 1264) | Birth | Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (died in 1326) | |
| May 26th, 1055 (May 26 1055) | Death | Margrave Adalbert of Austria | |
| May 26th, 0946 (May 26 0946) | Death | King Edmund I of England (born in 921) | |
| May 26th, 0818 (May 26 0818) | Death | Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (born in 766) | |
| May 26th, 0604 (May 26 0604) | Death | Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| May 26th, 0451 (May 26 0451) | Event | The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity. | |
