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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of May 0017 | EVENT | Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe. |
| 26th of May 0451 | EVENT | Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity. |
| 26th of May 1135 | EVENT | Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of all of Spain". |
| 26th of May 1293 | EVENT | An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000. |
| 26th of May 1328 | EVENT | William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII. |
| 26th of May 1538 | EVENT | Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years. |
| 26th of May 1637 | EVENT | Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans. |
| 26th of May 1647 | EVENT | Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies. |
| 26th of May 1670 | EVENT | In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover. |
| 26th of May 1736 | EVENT | Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France. |
| 26th of May 1770 | EVENT | The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks. |
| 26th of May 1783 | EVENT | A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut to celebrate the end of the American Revolution. |
| 26th of May 1805 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan. |
| 26th of May 1822 | EVENT | 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history. |
| 26th of May 1828 | EVENT | Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. |
| 26th of May 1830 | EVENT | The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later. |
| 26th of May 1857 | EVENT | Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners. |
| 26th of May 1864 | EVENT | Montana is organized as a United States territory. |
| 26th of May 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas. |
| 26th of May 1868 | EVENT | The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote. |
| 26th of May 1869 | EVENT | Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
| 26th of May 1879 | EVENT | Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state. |
| 26th of May 1889 | EVENT | Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public. |
| 26th of May 1896 | EVENT | Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. |
| 26th of May 1896 | EVENT | Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. |
| 26th of May 1896 | EVENT | James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California. |
| 26th of May 1897 | EVENT | Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. |
| 26th of May 1906 | EVENT | Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. |
| 26th of May 1908 | EVENT | At Masjed Soleyman (???? ??????) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. |
| 26th of May 1917 | EVENT | Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689. |
| 26th of May 1918 | EVENT | The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. |
| 26th of May 1936 | EVENT | In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours. |
| 26th of May 1938 | EVENT | In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session. |
| 26th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Dunkirk : In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. |
| 26th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place. |
| 26th of May 1948 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force. |
| 26th of May 1959 | EVENT | Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 Milwaukee Braves batters to face him, only to lose his bid for a perfect game in the 13th inning. |
| 26th of May 1966 | EVENT | British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana. |
| 26th of May 1969 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing. |
| 26th of May 1970 | EVENT | The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. |
| 26th of May 1972 | EVENT | The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
| 26th of May 1972 | EVENT | Willandra National Park is established in Australia. |
| 26th of May 1977 | EVENT | George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center. |
| 26th of May 1981 | EVENT | Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due). |
| 26th of May 1982 | EVENT | Aston Villa win the European Cup, defeating Bayern Munich 1-0 in Rotterdam, Netherlands thanks to a Peter Withe goal. |
| 26th of May 1983 | EVENT | A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed. |
| 26th of May 1986 | EVENT | The European Community adopts the European flag. |
| 26th of May 1991 | EVENT | Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. |
| 26th of May 1991 | EVENT | Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223. |
| 26th of May 1992 | EVENT | Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California and is held hostage for a ransom of $650,000 in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later. |
| 26th of May 1998 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. |
| 26th of May 2004 | EVENT | The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the build-up to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. |
| 26th of May 2004 | EVENT | The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| 26th of May 2006 | EVENT | The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people and leaves 200,000 homeless. |
| 26th of May 1264 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326) |
| 26th of May 1478 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement VII (d. 1534) |
| 26th of May 1566 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) |
| 26th of May 1602 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674) |
| 26th of May 1650 | BIRTHDAY | John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722) |
| 26th of May 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754) |
| 26th of May 1669 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722) |
| 26th of May 1689 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762) |
| 26th of May 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760) |
| 26th of May 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836) |
| 26th of May 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837) |
| 26th of May 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896) |
| 26th of May 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917) |
| 26th of May 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933) |
| 26th of May 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953) |
| 26th of May 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958) |
| 26th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | W. Otto Miessner, American composer and music educator (d. 1967) |
| 26th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946) |
| 26th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950) |
| 26th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957) |
| 26th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962) |
| 26th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965) |
| 26th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971) |
| 26th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965) |
| 26th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968) |
| 26th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002) |
| 26th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961) |
| 26th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 26th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006) |
| 26th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992) |
| 26th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam |
| 26th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994) |
| 26th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Lopez Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969) |
| 26th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002) |
| 26th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Imi Lichtenfeld, Founder of Krav Maga (d. 1998) |
| 26th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 26th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Janos Kadar, Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989) |
| 26th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 26th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994) |
| 26th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer (d. 2009) |
| 26th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 26th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003) |
| 26th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999) |
| 26th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972) |
| 26th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary (d. 2009) |
| 26th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985) |
| 26th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002) |
| 26th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Dotrice, British actor |
| 26th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | James Arness, American actor |
| 26th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Alec McCowen, English actor |
| 26th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (d. 1991) |
| 26th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author |
| 26th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kevorkian, Former American pathologist and right-to-die advocate |
| 26th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Karim Emami, Iranian Translator (d. 2005) |
| 26th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980) |
| 26th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Steafel, South African : born British actress |
| 26th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | William Bolcom, American composer |
| 26th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist |
| 26th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano |
| 26th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Parker, New Zealander murderer |
| 26th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster |
| 26th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader (d. 1989) |
| 26th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician |
| 26th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Levon Helm, American musician (The Band) |
| 26th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player |
| 26th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003) |
| 26th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Kaufman, sculptor |
| 26th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Spiritual Leader |
| 26th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee |
| 26th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author |
| 26th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who) |
| 26th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician |
| 26th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach. |
| 26th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993) |
| 26th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Stevie Nicks, American songwriter |
| 26th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor |
| 26th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Pam Grier, American actress |
| 26th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Williams Jr., American singer |
| 26th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Michael Thomas, American actor |
| 26th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Alaskey, American voice actor |
| 26th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Ride, American astronaut |
| 26th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician |
| 26th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Meece, Christian musician |
| 26th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Portillo, British politician |
| 26th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator from North Carolina |
| 26th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Gold, German singer (Alphaville) |
| 26th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006) |
| 26th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist |
| 26th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef |
| 26th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Walker, American football player |
| 26th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Dutoit, French politician |
| 26th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Colin, American actress |
| 26th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Diomedes Diaz, Colombian singer |
| 26th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Legault, French Canadian politician |
| 26th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver |
| 26th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician |
| 26th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kristina Olsen, American musician |
| 26th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers) |
| 26th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer |
| 26th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver |
| 26th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Murphy, American baseball player |
| 26th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tarsem Singh, Indian film director |
| 26th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Genie Francis, American actress |
| 26th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor |
| 26th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Caitlin R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer |
| 26th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Kravitz, American musician |
| 26th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Argiris Pedoulakis, Greek basketball coach and former player |
| 26th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Hazel Irvine, British television presenter |
| 26th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Zola Budd, South African athlete |
| 26th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Helena Bonham Carter, English actress |
| 26th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Doyle, Australian writer |
| 26th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Moore, American musician (OSI) |
| 26th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark |
| 26th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Sedgley, English footballer |
| 26th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Spanish film director |
| 26th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Musetta Vander, South African actress |
| 26th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Baird, Canadian politician |
| 26th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist |
| 26th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Stone, American animator and filmmaker |
| 26th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Allen, British photojournalist |
| 26th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Palmer, British actress |
| 26th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Frolander, Swedish swimmer |
| 26th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Lee, American baseball player |
| 26th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nicki Aycox, American actress |
| 26th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Florian, American Mixed Martial Artist |
| 26th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack) |
| 26th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player |
| 26th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira) |
| 26th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist |
| 26th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Toni, Italian footballer |
| 26th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Misaki Ito, Japanese actress and model |
| 26th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter |
| 26th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Harnois, American actress |
| 26th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player |
| 26th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler |
| 26th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Copeland, Australian Australian rules footballer |
| 26th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Irini Merkouri, Greek singer |
| 26th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer |
| 26th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Slade, American musician (The Fray) |
| 26th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Manford, British comedian |
| 26th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model |
| 26th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Tester, American Musician (Voytek) |
| 26th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Reed, British writer and comedian |
| 26th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer |
| 26th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Holland, British fashion designer |
| 26th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Garcia, Filipina actress |
| 26th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Thomas, Australian comedian |
| 26th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Selwood, Australian footballer |
| 26th of May 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress |
| 26th of May 0604 | DEATH | Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 26th of May 0818 | DEATH | Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (Born 766) |
| 26th of May 0946 | DEATH | King Edmund I of England (Born 921) |
| 26th of May 1055 | DEATH | Margrave Adalbert of Austria |
| 26th of May 1421 | DEATH | Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1389) |
| 26th of May 1512 | DEATH | Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan |
| 26th of May 1536 | DEATH | Francesco Berni, Italian poet |
| 26th of May 1595 | DEATH | Philip Neri, Italian churchman (Born 1515) |
| 26th of May 1647 | DEATH | Alse Young, American "witch" |
| 26th of May 1648 | DEATH | Vincent Voiture, French poet (Born 1597) |
| 26th of May 1651 | DEATH | Jeane Gardiner, British woman executed for witchcraft |
| 26th of May 1653 | DEATH | Robert Filmer, English writer (Born 1588) |
| 26th of May 1679 | DEATH | Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (Born 1636) |
| 26th of May 1685 | DEATH | Karl II, Elector Palatine (Born 1651) |
| 26th of May 1703 | DEATH | Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (Born 1633) |
| 26th of May 1742 | DEATH | Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (Born 1672) |
| 26th of May 1762 | DEATH | Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (Born 1714) |
| 26th of May 1799 | DEATH | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (Born 1714) |
| 26th of May 1818 | DEATH | Manuel Rodriguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile (Born 1785) |
| 26th of May 1818 | DEATH | Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (Born 1761) |
| 26th of May 1824 | DEATH | Capel Lofft, English writer (Born 1751) |
| 26th of May 1831 | DEATH | Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (Born 1798) |
| 26th of May 1840 | DEATH | Sidney Smith, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1764) |
| 26th of May 1881 | DEATH | Jakob Bernays, German philologist (Born 1824) |
| 26th of May 1883 | DEATH | Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian political and military leader (Born 1808) |
| 26th of May 1883 | DEATH | Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (Born 1788) |
| 26th of May 1902 | DEATH | Almon Strowger, American inventor (Born 1839) |
| 26th of May 1904 | DEATH | Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (Born 1857) |
| 26th of May 1907 | DEATH | Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (Born 1847) |
| 26th of May 1908 | DEATH | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (Born 1835) |
| 26th of May 1914 | DEATH | Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and social reformer (Born 1849) |
| 26th of May 1924 | DEATH | Victor Herbert, Irish composer (Born 1859) |
| 26th of May 1933 | DEATH | Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (Born 1860) |
| 26th of May 1933 | DEATH | Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (Born 1897) |
| 26th of May 1939 | DEATH | Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (Born 1865) |
| 26th of May 1943 | DEATH | Alice Tegner, Swedish composer and organist (Born 1864) |
| 26th of May 1943 | DEATH | Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (Born 1893) |
| 26th of May 1944 | DEATH | Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp (Born 1885) |
| 26th of May 1948 | DEATH | Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (Born 1886) |
| 26th of May 1951 | DEATH | Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (Born 1880) |
| 26th of May 1954 | DEATH | Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (Born 1900) |
| 26th of May 1955 | DEATH | Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (Born 1918) |
| 26th of May 1966 | DEATH | Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (Born 1894) |
| 26th of May 1968 | DEATH | Little Willie John, American singer (Born 1937) |
| 26th of May 1969 | DEATH | Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (Born 1937) |
| 26th of May 1969 | DEATH | Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation (Born 1889) |
| 26th of May 1974 | DEATH | Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (Born 1941) |
| 26th of May 1976 | DEATH | Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared" |
| 26th of May 1976 | DEATH | Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Born 1889) |
| 26th of May 1977 | DEATH | William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (Born 1942) |
| 26th of May 1978 | DEATH | Cybele, Greek actress (Born 1887) |
| 26th of May 1979 | DEATH | George Brent, British actor (Born 1899) |
| 26th of May 1989 | DEATH | Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (Born 1927) |
| 26th of May 1999 | DEATH | Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (Born 1906) |
| 26th of May 1999 | DEATH | Waldo Semon, American inventor (Born 1898) |
| 26th of May 2001 | DEATH | Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (Born 1937) |
| 26th of May 2001 | DEATH | Anne Haney, American actress (Born 1934) |
| 26th of May 2001 | DEATH | Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (Born 1952) |
| 26th of May 2002 | DEATH | Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (Born 1932) |
| 26th of May 2003 | DEATH | Kathleen Winsor, American writer (Born 1919) |
| 26th of May 2004 | DEATH | Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (Born 1934) |
| 26th of May 2004 | DEATH | Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (Born 1931) |
| 26th of May 2005 | DEATH | Eddie Albert, American actor (Born 1906) |
| 26th of May 2005 | DEATH | Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (Born 1928) |
| 26th of May 2005 | DEATH | Ruth Laredo, American pianist (Born 1937) |
| 26th of May 2006 | DEATH | Edouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (Born 1963) |
| 26th of May 2006 | DEATH | Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (Born 1919) |
| 26th of May 2007 | DEATH | J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (Born 1942) |
| 26th of May 2008 | DEATH | Zita Urbonaite, Lithuanian road cyclist (Born 1973) |
| 26th of May 2008 | DEATH | Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (Born 1934) |
| 26th of May 2009 | DEATH | Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (Born 1925) |
| 26th of May 2009 | DEATH | Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (Born 1941) |
| 26th of May 2009 | DEATH | Peter Zezel, Canadian professional hockey player (Born 1965) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (Born 1928) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (Born 1936) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Christopher Moran, British Air Chief Marshal (Born 1956) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Kieran Phelan, Irish senator (Born 1949) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (Born 1912) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Jarvis Williams, American football player (Born 1965) |
| 26th of May 2010 | DEATH | Matt Hughes, Meteorologist (Born 1979) |