History Deaths on December 26

James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator (b. 1950)

#James_Rizzi

Arthur III, duke of Brittany (b. 1393)

#Arthur_III,_Duke_of_Brittany

Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)

#Howard_Hawks

Valdemar, king of Sweden (b. 1239)

#Valdemar,_King_of_Sweden

Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)

#Jason_Robards

Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)

#Gerald_Ford

Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)

#Albert_Giraud

Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (b. 1890)

#Frederick_Dalrymple-Hamilton

Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)

#Claude_Adrien_Helvétius

Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)

#Dietrich_Eckart

Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1959)

#Sigurd_Køhn

Savitri, Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer (b. 1936)

#Savitri_(actress)

Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier and engineer (b. 1951)

#Ivar_Formo

Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

#Frederic_Remington

Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

#Harold_B._Lee

Lillian Board, South African-English runner (b. 1948)

#Lillian_Board

Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan (b. 1444)

#Galeazzo_Maria_Sforza

Jean de Marigny, French archbishop

#Jean_de_Marigny

Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928)

#Angus_Ogilvy

Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)

#Shankar_Dayal_Sharma

Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)

#Dorothy_Bliss

Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)

#Anatoly_Lunacharsky

Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)

#Philip_I,_Prince_of_Taranto

Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)

#Ina_Boudier-Bakker

Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)

#Vincent_Schiavelli

Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)

#Antoine_Houdar_de_la_Motte

Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)

#Harry_S._Truman

Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)

#Seth_Warner

Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)

#Gasparo_Gozzi

Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)

#Doug_Harvey_(ice_hockey)

Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)

#Jean_Léonard_Marie_Poiseuille

Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)

#Ted_Ditchburn

Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588)

#Henri,_Prince_of_Condé_(1588-1646)

Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (b. 1902)

#Elsa_Lanchester

Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)

#Cornelius_Castoriadis

Charles de Lorraine, French cardinal (b. 1524)

#Charles,_Cardinal_of_Lorraine

Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)

#Francis_Caulfeild,_2nd_Earl_of_Charlemont

Erich Topp, German commander (b. 1914)

#Erich_Topp

Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)

#Suat_Hayri_Ürgüplü

Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)

#Leo_Tindemans

Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)

#Curtis_Mayfield

Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)

#Jan_Letzel

Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)

#Salvador_Jorge_Blanco

Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, English commander (b. 1314)

#Thomas_Holland,_1st_Earl_of_Kent

Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933)

#Sylva_Koscina

Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)

#Melvil_Dewey

Stanis?aw Bara?czak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b. 1946)

#Stanis?aw_Bara?czak

Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (b. 1915)

#Farid_al-Atrash

Euthymius of Sardis, Byzantine bishop and saint (b. 754)

#Euthymius_of_Sardis

James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)

#James_B._Edwards

Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1912)

#Marta_Eggerth

George S. Irving, American actor, singer and dancer (b. 1922)

#George_S._Irving

Jack Benny, American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, and violinist (b. 1894)

#Jack_Benny

Babur, Mongolian emperor (b. 1483)

#Babur

Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)

#Pablo_Sorozábal

John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)

#John_Fothergill_(physician)

Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)

#Guillermo_Stábile

Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1956)

#Teena_Marie

Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)

#Gorgeous_George

Jim O'Toole, American baseball player (b. 1937)

#Jim_O'Toole

Michele Steno, doge of Venice (b. 1331)

#Michele_Steno

Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)

#Gerry_Anderson

Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)

#Heinrich_Schliemann

Paul Blair, American baseball player and coach (b. 1944)

#Paul_Blair_(baseball)

Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)

#Tony_Smith_(sculptor)

Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster and television news anchor (b. 1930)

Ricky Harris, American comedian, actor (b. 1962)

Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1922)

Ibrahim Tannous, Lebanese general (b. 1929)

Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (b. 1941)

Joe Bodolai, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)

Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932)

Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1940)

Houston Antwine, American football player (b. 1939)

Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934)

Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (b. 1958)

Munir Niazi, Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928)

Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1939)

Kerry Packer, Australian publisher and businessman (b. 1937)

Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano (b. 1937)

Reggie White, American football player and wrestler (b. 1961)

Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1974)

Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)

Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b. 1980)

Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)

Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)

Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)

Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)

Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)

Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)

JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990)

Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923)

Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)

Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)

Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)

Herbert Otto Gille, German general (b. 1897)

Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)

Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)

Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

Niccolò III d'Este, marquess of Ferrara

John, 3rd Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1330)

Reginald Fitz Jocelin, archbishop-elect of Canterbury

Gao Qiong, Chinese general (b. 935)

Masrur al-Balkhi, Abbasid general

Zheng, empress of the Tang Dynasty

Zosimus, pope of the Catholic Church

Dionysius, pope of the Catholic Church