May 26 Deaths |
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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) | 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) | 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) | Death | Kathleen Winsor, American writer (born in 1919) | |
| 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) | Death | Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (born in 1906) | |
| May 26th, 1999 (May 26 1999) | Death | Waldo Semon, American inventor (born in 1898) | |
| May 26th, 1989 (May 26 1989) | Death | Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (born in 1927) | |
| May 26th, 1979 (May 26 1979) | Death | George Brent, British actor (born in 1899) | |
| May 26th, 1978 (May 26 1978) | Death | Cybele, Greek actress (born in 1887) | |
| May 26th, 1977 (May 26 1977) | Death | William Powell, American singer (The O Jays) (born in 1942) | |
| 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, 1974 (May 26 1974) | Death | Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (born in 1941) | |
| 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) | Death | Little Willie John, American singer (born in 1937) | |
| 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) | Death | Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (born in 1900) | |
| May 26th, 1951 (May 26 1951) | Death | Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (born in 1880) | |
| May 26th, 1948 (May 26 1948) | Death | Theodore Morell, Hitler s personal physician (born in 1886) | Theodor Morell Quotes |
| May 26th, 1943 (May 26 1943) | Death | Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (born in 1893) | |
| May 26th, 1939 (May 26 1939) | Death | Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (born in 1865) | Horace Quotes |
| 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, 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, 1908 (May 26 1908) | Death | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (born in 1835) | |
| May 26th, 1907 (May 26 1907) | Death | Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (born in 1847) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1824 (May 26 1824) | Death | Capel Lofft, English writer (born in 1751) | |
| 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, 1799 (May 26 1799) | Death | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (born in 1714) | |
| 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, 1703 (May 26 1703) | Death | Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (born in 1633) | Samuel Pepys 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, 1653 (May 26 1653) | Death | Robert Filmer, English writer (born in 1588) | |
| May 26th, 1648 (May 26 1648) | Death | Vincent Voiture, French poet (born in 1597) | |
| May 26th, 1647 (May 26 1647) | Death | Alse Young, American "witch" | |
| May 26th, 1595 (May 26 1595) | Death | Philip Neri, Italian churchman (born in 1515) | |
| May 26th, 1536 (May 26 1536) | Death | Francesco Berni, Italian poet | |
| May 26th, 1512 (May 26 1512) | Death | Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan | |
| May 26th, 1421 (May 26 1421) | Death | Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1389) | |
| 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 | |
