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July 26

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2024 Summer Olympics

2 years ago

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1856

George Bernard Shaw

Died aged 94

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Famous births27

1678 · 348 yrs

Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph I (Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius; 26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.

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RoyaltyDied aged 32

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1829 · 197 yrs

Auguste Beernaert

Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the prime minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894, and the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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ActivismDied aged 83

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1842 · 184 yrs

Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time.

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ScienceDied aged 81

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1856 · 170 yrs

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.

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LiteratureDied aged 94

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1875 · 151 yrs

Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; Swiss Standard German:; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of archetypes.

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ArtDied aged 85

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1875 · 151 yrs

Antonio Machado

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), simply known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.

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LiteratureDied aged 63

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1885 · 141 yrs

André Maurois

André Maurois (French:; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author.

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1893 · 133 yrs

George Grosz

George Grosz (German:; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic.

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1894 · 132 yrs

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.

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1928 · 98 yrs

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. A prominent figure of the New Hollywood era, Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers.

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1928 · 98 yrs

Francesco Cossiga

Francesco Maurizio Cossiga (26 July 1928 – 17 August 2010) was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1985 to 1992. A member of Christian Democracy, he was Prime Minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980; leading a centre-right government.

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1938 · 88 yrs

Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto (26 July 1938 – 11 September 2024) was a Peruvian politician, professor, agriculture engineer, and dictator who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000.

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Famous deaths10

1471 · 555 yrs

Paul II

Pope Paul II (Latin: Paulus II; Italian: Paolo II; 23 February 1417 – 26 July 1471), born Pietro Barbo, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 August 1464 to his death in 1471.

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ReligionDied aged 54

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1533 · 493 yrs

Atahualpa

Atawallpa, also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa (Classical Quechua: Ataw Wallpa, pronounced) (c.

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RoyaltyDied aged 36

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1863 · 163 yrs

Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution in which the Republic of Texas seceded from Mexico.

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PoliticsDied aged 70

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1867 · 159 yrs

Otto of Greece

Otto (Greek: Όθων, romanized: Óthon; German: Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Wittelsbach; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 7 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.

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RoyaltyDied aged 52

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1925 · 101 yrs

Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (German:; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.

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PhilosophyDied aged 76

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1952 · 74 yrs

Eva Perón

María Eva Duarte de Perón (Spanish pronunciation:; née Duarte; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as Eva "Evita" Perón, was an Argentine politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón.

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PoliticsWould be 107

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1999 · 27 yrs

Trygve Haavelmo

Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December 1911 – 28 July 1999), born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1989.

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2013 · 13 yrs

Sung Jae-gi

Sung Jae-gi (Korean: 성재기;; September 11, 1967 – July 26, 2013) was a South Korean men's rights activist. Sung was the leader of various masculinist and anti-feminist organizations, including the Association of Anti-Feminism and Male Liberation, Association for the Abolition of the Ministry of Women, and Man of Korea.

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2021 · 5 yrs

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology (e.g., social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology), and influenced…

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2023 · 3 yrs

Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor ( shin-AYD; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023), also known as Shuhada' Sadaqat, was an Irish singer and songwriter.

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Events5

1830 · 196 yrs

July Revolution

The July Revolution (French: Révolution de Juillet), also known as the French Revolution of 1830, Second French Revolution, or les Trois Glorieuses ("the Three Glorious"), was a second French Revolution after the first of 1789–99.

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Politics

1945 · 81 yrs

Potsdam Declaration

The Potsdam Declaration, or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States president Harry S.

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Politics

1953 · 73 yrs

Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and consolidated power.

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Politics

2023 · 3 yrs

2023 Nigerien coup d'état

On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger when the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, and presidential guard commander General Abdourahamane Tiani proclaimed himself the leader of a military junta shortly after confirming the coup a success.

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War

2024 · 2 yrs

2024 Summer Olympics

The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux Olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe olympiade de l'ère moderne) and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events starting from…

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