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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of August 1071 | EVENT | Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. |
| 26th of August 1278 | EVENT | Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Durnkrut in (then) Moravia. |
| 26th of August 1303 | EVENT | Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh. |
| 26th of August 1346 | EVENT | Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crecy. |
| 26th of August 1466 | EVENT | A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered. |
| 26th of August 1498 | EVENT | Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta. |
| 26th of August 1748 | EVENT | The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 26th of August 1768 | EVENT | Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour. |
| 26th of August 1778 | EVENT | The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia. |
| 26th of August 1789 | EVENT | The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France. |
| 26th of August 1858 | EVENT | First news dispatch by telegraph. |
| 26th of August 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Second Battle of Bull Run begins. |
| 26th of August 1883 | EVENT | The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage. |
| 26th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: the British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau that briefly checks the German advance. |
| 26th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. |
| 26th of August 1920 | EVENT | The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote. |
| 26th of August 1939 | EVENT | The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 26th of August 1940 | EVENT | Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Felix Eboue, France's first black colonial governor. |
| 26th of August 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. |
| 26th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. |
| 26th of August 1957 | EVENT | The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM : a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS. |
| 26th of August 1966 | EVENT | The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe. |
| 26th of August 1970 | EVENT | The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality. |
| 26th of August 1971 | EVENT | The United States Congress declares August 26th as an annual Women's Equality Day. |
| 26th of August 1977 | EVENT | The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec |
| 26th of August 1978 | EVENT | Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy. |
| 26th of August 1978 | EVENT | Sigmund Jahn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31. |
| 26th of August 1980 | EVENT | John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada. |
| 26th of August 1987 | EVENT | President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day. |
| 26th of August 1992 | EVENT | In Brno Vaclav Klaus and Vladimir Meciar sign an agreement to divide Czechoslovakia. |
| 26th of August 1997 | EVENT | Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed. |
| 26th of August 2003 | EVENT | The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. |
| 26th of August 2008 | EVENT | Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia. |
| 26th of August 1469 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496) |
| 26th of August 1540 | BIRTHDAY | King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583) |
| 26th of August 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745) |
| 26th of August 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755) |
| 26th of August 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss scientist (d. 1777) |
| 26th of August 1736 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste L. Rome de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790) |
| 26th of August 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810) |
| 26th of August 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794) |
| 26th of August 1775 | BIRTHDAY | William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851) |
| 26th of August 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833) |
| 26th of August 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857) |
| 26th of August 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861) |
| 26th of August 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875) |
| 26th of August 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888) |
| 26th of August 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) |
| 26th of August 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932) |
| 26th of August 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926) |
| 26th of August 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935) |
| 26th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur James Arnot, Scottish inventor (d. 1946) |
| 26th of August 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961) |
| 26th of August 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938) |
| 26th of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940) |
| 26th of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918) |
| 26th of August 1882 | BIRTHDAY | James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964) |
| 26th of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972) |
| 26th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970) |
| 26th of August 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 26th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian |
| 26th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990) |
| 26th of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990) |
| 26th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979) |
| 26th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991) |
| 26th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980) |
| 26th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Kammler, German engineer and SS officer (disappeared in 1945) |
| 26th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987) |
| 26th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972) |
| 26th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986) |
| 26th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993) |
| 26th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Lanin, American bandleader (d. 2004) |
| 26th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967) |
| 26th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Aubrey Schenck, British film producer (d. 1999) |
| 26th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983) |
| 26th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Moore, American baseball player (d. 1978) |
| 26th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976) |
| 26th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 26th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Mother Teresa, Macedonian-born Indian missionary; Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1997) |
| 26th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Cortazar, Argentine writer (d. 1984) |
| 26th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007) |
| 26th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai soldier and politician |
| 26th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1994) |
| 26th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist |
| 26th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Irving R. Levine, American journalist (d. 2009) |
| 26th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist |
| 26th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 26th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005) |
| 26th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999) |
| 26th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sangharakshita, Indian religious figure |
| 26th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian Violinist |
| 26th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | B. V. Doshi, Indian architect |
| 26th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist |
| 26th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Naim Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist |
| 26th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer |
| 26th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Salvadores, Chilean basketball player. |
| 26th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator |
| 26th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (d. 2011) |
| 26th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Yvette Vickers, American actress |
| 26th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jet Black, British musician (The Stranglers) |
| 26th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (d. 2007) |
| 26th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008) |
| 26th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director |
| 26th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (d. 2005) |
| 26th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress |
| 26th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Merrow, British actress |
| 26th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Turner, British politician |
| 26th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Dana, American singer |
| 26th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, British prince |
| 26th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Greif, English actor |
| 26th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Tucker, American musician |
| 26th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Freeman, American feminist scholar |
| 26th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
| 26th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Simpson, American singer |
| 26th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Snow, American composer |
| 26th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Zhou Ji, Chinese Communist Party official |
| 26th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress |
| 26th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Emiliano Diez, Cuban actor |
| 26th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (d. 2007) |
| 26th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 26th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 26th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Will Shortz, American crossword editor |
| 26th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer |
| 26th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player |
| 26th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Wright, British DJ |
| 26th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Cullen, American actor |
| 26th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Mangino, American football coach |
| 26th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer |
| 26th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete |
| 26th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist |
| 26th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Van Gundy, American basketball coach |
| 26th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader |
| 26th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer |
| 26th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Wanda De Jesus, American actress |
| 26th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Levi, French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist |
| 26th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Parrett, American baseball player |
| 26th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney |
| 26th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Byas, English cricketer |
| 26th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Dubner, American journalist, author |
| 26th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Carolina Arregui, Chilean actress |
| 26th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Burke, American actor |
| 26th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Duncum, Jr., American wrestler (d. 2000) |
| 26th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Hensley, American actor |
| 26th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player |
| 26th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Manson, Scottish singer |
| 26th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Avner Ben-Gal, Israeli artist and painter |
| 26th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gove, British politician |
| 26th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Boardman, British cyclist |
| 26th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Lawson, Canadian actor |
| 26th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete |
| 26th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Schultz, South African cricketer |
| 26th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Thalia, Mexican singer |
| 26th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kelvin Cato, American basketball player |
| 26th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Connolly, Canadian singer |
| 26th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player |
| 26th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Momar Njie, Gambian footballer |
| 26th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Amaia Montero, Spanish singer |
| 26th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Zemfira, Russian singer |
| 26th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Botham, British cricketer and rugby player |
| 26th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyu |
| 26th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Peterson, American basketball player |
| 26th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Motta, Italian footballer |
| 26th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer |
| 26th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Pazos, Spanish footballer |
| 26th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Robertson, American musician |
| 26th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 26th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jamal Lewis, American football player |
| 26th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yagmur Sar?gul, Turkish Musician (maNga) |
| 26th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Macaulay Culkin, American actor |
| 26th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Harris, American baseball player |
| 26th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Pine, American actor |
| 26th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player |
| 26th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tino Best, Barbadian West Indies cricketer |
| 26th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer |
| 26th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 26th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player |
| 26th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman |
| 26th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer |
| 26th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Long, New Zealand musician |
| 26th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Welch, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver |
| 26th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiaki Imae, Japanese baseball player |
| 26th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon McDonald, American football player |
| 26th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Cassie, American singer |
| 26th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer |
| 26th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Riley Steele, Pornographic actress |
| 26th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 26th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Ross, American actor |
| 26th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Savre, American actress |
| 26th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este |
| 26th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Tori Black, Pornographic actress |
| 26th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter and TV personality |
| 26th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast |
| 26th of August 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Keke Palmer, American actress |
| 26th of August 1214 | DEATH | Michael IV, Patriarch of Constantinople |
| 26th of August 1278 | DEATH | King Otakar II of Bohemia |
| 26th of August 1346 | DEATH | Killed in the Battle of Crecy: Charles II of Alencon (Born 1297) Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304) John of Bohemia (b. 1296) Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320) |
| 26th of August 1349 | DEATH | Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 26th of August 1551 | DEATH | Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (Born 1516) |
| 26th of August 1572 | DEATH | Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (Born 1515) |
| 26th of August 1595 | DEATH | Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (Born 1531) |
| 26th of August 1666 | DEATH | Frans Hals, Dutch painter (Born c. 1580) |
| 26th of August 1714 | DEATH | Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (Born 1632) |
| 26th of August 1723 | DEATH | Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (Born 1632) |
| 26th of August 1785 | DEATH | George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (Born 1716) |
| 26th of August 1810 | DEATH | Santiago de Liniers, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata (Born 1753) |
| 26th of August 1850 | DEATH | Louis-Philippe of France (Born 1773) |
| 26th of August 1865 | DEATH | Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (Born 1791) |
| 26th of August 1908 | DEATH | Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (Born 1837) |
| 26th of August 1910 | DEATH | William James, American psychologist and philosopher (Born 1842) |
| 26th of August 1930 | DEATH | Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (Born 1883) |
| 26th of August 1944 | DEATH | Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (Born 1909) |
| 26th of August 1945 | DEATH | Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (Born 1890) |
| 26th of August 1946 | DEATH | Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (Born 1887) |
| 26th of August 1956 | DEATH | Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (Born 1881) |
| 26th of August 1958 | DEATH | Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (Born 1872) |
| 26th of August 1968 | DEATH | Kay Francis, American actress (Born 1899) |
| 26th of August 1974 | DEATH | Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (Born 1902) |
| 26th of August 1976 | DEATH | Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (Born 1888) |
| 26th of August 1978 | DEATH | Charles Boyer, French actor (Born 1899) |
| 26th of August 1978 | DEATH | Jose Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (Born 1916) |
| 26th of August 1979 | DEATH | Mika Waltari, Finnish author (Born 1908) |
| 26th of August 1980 | DEATH | Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (Born 1874) |
| 26th of August 1980 | DEATH | Tex Avery, American cartoonist (Born 1908) |
| 26th of August 1981 | DEATH | Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (Born 1914) |
| 26th of August 1981 | DEATH | Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (Born 1884) |
| 26th of August 1986 | DEATH | Ted Knight, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 26th of August 1987 | DEATH | John Goddard, West Indian cricketer (Born 1919) |
| 26th of August 1987 | DEATH | Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1897) |
| 26th of August 1988 | DEATH | Carlos Paiao, Portuguese singer (Born 1957) |
| 26th of August 1989 | DEATH | Irving Stone, American author (Born 1903) |
| 26th of August 1990 | DEATH | Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (Born 1913) |
| 26th of August 1992 | DEATH | Bob de Moor, Belgian comics artist (Born 1925) |
| 26th of August 1992 | DEATH | Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (Born 1933) |
| 26th of August 1993 | DEATH | Reima Pietila, Finnish architect (Born 1923) |
| 26th of August 1998 | DEATH | Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1918) |
| 26th of August 2000 | DEATH | Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (Born 1939) |
| 26th of August 2001 | DEATH | Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (Born 1904) |
| 26th of August 2003 | DEATH | Jim Wacker, American football coach (Born 1937) |
| 26th of August 2004 | DEATH | Laura Branigan, American singer (Born 1957) |
| 26th of August 2005 | DEATH | Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (Born 1960) |
| 26th of August 2005 | DEATH | Robert Denning, American interior designer (Born 1927) |
| 26th of August 2005 | DEATH | Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1949) |
| 26th of August 2006 | DEATH | Rainer Barzel, German politician (Born 1924) |
| 26th of August 2006 | DEATH | Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (Born 1926) |
| 26th of August 2007 | DEATH | Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (Born 1928) |
| 26th of August 2007 | DEATH | Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (Born 1935) |
| 26th of August 2009 | DEATH | Dominick Dunne, American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent (Born 1925) |
| 26th of August 2010 | DEATH | Raimon Panikkar, Catalan philosopher (Born 1918) |