41st year - Nr 207 Sunday, 26 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 207 Sunday, 26 July 2026

26 July / Today's 34 Events:

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(-) 555 years ago Wednesday 26th of July 1471 211th Pope Paulus II, originally Pietro Barbo dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Some claimed Paul II collapsed from severe indigestion after eating melon in excess. Some say that he had died whilst being sodomized by a page boy.

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(+) 170 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1856 Playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Synge Street 33, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(+) 151 years ago Monday 26th of July 1875 Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland.

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(-) 135 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1891 38-year-old Mass murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston kills his wife Marie and four children 9-year-old Bertha, 7-year-old Marie, 5-year-old Sidney and 18-month-old Leala in Dinham Villa, Lawton Road, Rainhill, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(+) 132 years ago He Came Into a Brave New World Thursday 26th of July 1894 Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley known for his dystopian novel Brave New World is born in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 130 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1896 Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 112 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1914 45-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Because of his previous convictions Landru faced transportation to the penal colony of Guyana.

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(-) 101 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1925 Philosopher, logician and mathematician Gottlob Friedrich Ludwig Frege aka The Father of Analytic Philosophy dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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(+) 98 years ago Thursday 26th of July 1928 Film director Stanley Kubrick is born in Lying-In Hospital, 305 Second Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 95 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1931 Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa, originally Vincent Leaphart is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Friday 26th of July 1940 Political campaign specialist for Robert F. Kennedy Mary Jo Kopechne is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 86 years ago Friday 26th of July 1940 Double murderer Claude Cline is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 46 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 85 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1941 Serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 83 years ago Monday 26th of July 1943 Singer-songwriter and musician Mick Michael Philip Jagger known from The Rolling Stones is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 74 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1952 Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina Eva María Duarte de Perón aka Evita dies of cancer at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(+) 67 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1959 Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is born in Putnam, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1959 Manuela Knodt is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Stadtwald, Bredeney, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 66 years ago Tuesday 26th of July 1960 Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 24 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 62 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1964 94 die in Automara express train derailment in Custóias, Norte, Portugal. The group was returning home to Oporto from the beach resort at Póvoa de Varzim and had only a few minutes left on their trip when disaster struck. The car they were in was supposed to carry no more than 70 people and more than twice that many (161) had been on board.

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(-) 61 years ago Monday 26th of July 1965 Eleonora Gąsiorowska is attacked by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(-) 55 years ago Monday 26th of July 1971 Photographer Diane Arbus, originally Diane Nemerov commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in Westbeth Artists Community, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Artist Marvin Israel found Arbus' body in the bathtub two days later.

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(-) 52 years ago Friday 26th of July 1974 Alice Curtis is choked to death by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago Von Sonnenaufgang bis Sonnenaufgang Saturday 26th of July 1975 37-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 50. Aktion Erstes 24-stunden-spiel, von Sonnenaufgang 26.7. bis Sonnenaufgang 27.7. in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria. Nitsch' 50. Aktion lasted 24 hours.

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(-) 42 years ago Thursday 26th of July 1984 Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America’s Most Bizarre Murderer dies of respiratory failure due to lung cancer at the age of 78 in Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1987 Writer and playwright Tawfīq al-Hakīm aka The Enemy of Woman dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

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(+) 35 years ago Friday 26th of July 1991 Spree killer and mass murderer Tim Kretschmer known from The Winnenden School Shooting is born in Leutenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 29 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1997 22-year-old Mass murderer Joseph Edward Corcoran kills his 30-year-old brother James Corcoran, 32-year-old Robert Scott Turner, 30-year-old Timothy G. Bricker and 30-year-old Douglas A. Stillwell in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 26th of July 2000 Double murderer Orien Cecil Joiner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 26th of July 2000 Murderer Juan Salvez Soria is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 26th of July 2003 A choice of delightful meat and other animal products on display at a night market around the corner in Empire Hotel, Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 26th of July 2006 A display of mechanical hands in Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 6 years ago She Went with the Wind Sunday 26th of July 2020 Actress Olivia Mary de Havilland dies of natural causes at the age of 104 in Hôtel Saint-James, 43 Avenue Bugeaud, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 4 years ago Tuesday 26th of July 2022 Mass murderer Tomohiro Katō known for the Akihabara massacre is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(-) 3 years ago Wednesday 26th of July 2023 Singer-songwriter Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma at the age of 57 in Herne Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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