October 26
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[edit] Births
- 1947 - Hillary Clinton, wife of former President of the United States Bill Clinton
[edit] Deaths
- 899 - Alfred the Great
- 1440 - Gilles de Rais, serial killer
- 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter
- 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada
- 1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer
- 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragette
- 1909 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, former Japanese governor of Korea (assassinated)
- 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball owner
- 1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, commander of Greater Poland Uprising in 1919 (b.1867)
- 1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer, dies in combat (b. 1904)
- 1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, Rector of Hexham Abbey and St Bartholomew the Great
- 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer
- 1956 - Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895)
- 1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer
- 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer
- 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea
- 1986 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter
- 1991 - Bill Graham, rock and roll entrepreneur
- 1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
- 1999 - Hoyt Axton, musician
- 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general
