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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of September 0715 | EVENT | Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiegne. |
| 26th of September 1212 | EVENT | Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Premyslid dynasty. |
| 26th of September 1580 | EVENT | Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. |
| 26th of September 1687 | EVENT | The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens. |
| 26th of September 1687 | EVENT | The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. |
| 26th of September 1777 | EVENT | British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. |
| 26th of September 1783 | EVENT | The first battle of Shays' Rebellion begins. |
| 26th of September 1789 | EVENT | Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General. |
| 26th of September 1792 | EVENT | Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France. |
| 26th of September 1810 | EVENT | A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne. |
| 26th of September 1820 | EVENT | Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proved tomatoes weren't poisonous by eating several on the steps of the courthouse in Salem, New Jersey. |
| 26th of September 1872 | EVENT | The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City. |
| 26th of September 1907 | EVENT | New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire. |
| 26th of September 1908 | EVENT | Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
| 26th of September 1914 | EVENT | The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act. |
| 26th of September 1918 | EVENT | World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. |
| 26th of September 1923 | EVENT | Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations. |
| 26th of September 1934 | EVENT | Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched. |
| 26th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting. |
| 26th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Market Garden fails. |
| 26th of September 1950 | EVENT | Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations. |
| 26th of September 1950 | EVENT | United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans. |
| 26th of September 1954 | EVENT | Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172. |
| 26th of September 1960 | EVENT | In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. |
| 26th of September 1960 | EVENT | Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R. |
| 26th of September 1962 | EVENT | The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed. |
| 26th of September 1970 | EVENT | The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km?). |
| 26th of September 1973 | EVENT | Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. |
| 26th of September 1981 | EVENT | Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter. |
| 26th of September 1983 | EVENT | Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. |
| 26th of September 1984 | EVENT | The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong |
| 26th of September 1997 | EVENT | A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234. |
| 26th of September 1997 | EVENT | An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse. |
| 26th of September 2000 | EVENT | Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. |
| 26th of September 2000 | EVENT | The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers. |
| 26th of September 2002 | EVENT | The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000. |
| 26th of September 2008 | EVENT | Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel. |
| 26th of September 2009 | EVENT | Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities. |
| 26th of September 1329 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Anna of Bavaria of the Romans (d. 1353) |
| 26th of September 1406 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430) |
| 26th of September 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779) |
| 26th of September 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810) |
| 26th of September 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician (d. 1820) |
| 26th of September 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Wenzel Muller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835) |
| 26th of September 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845) |
| 26th of September 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Gericault, French painter (d. 1824) |
| 26th of September 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891) |
| 26th of September 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923) |
| 26th of September 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937) |
| 26th of September 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Winsor McCay, American animatior (d. 1934) |
| 26th of September 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935) |
| 26th of September 1870 | BIRTHDAY | King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947) |
| 26th of September 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Wac?aw Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940) |
| 26th of September 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949) |
| 26th of September 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940) |
| 26th of September 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959) |
| 26th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Abbott, American social worker and author (d. 1957) |
| 26th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet and Muslim nationalist (d. 1952) |
| 26th of September 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962) |
| 26th of September 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963) |
| 26th of September 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Hiram Wesley Evans, American Ku Klux Klan figure (d. 1966) |
| 26th of September 1884 | BIRTHDAY | J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951) |
| 26th of September 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977) |
| 26th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958) |
| 26th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (d. 1967) |
| 26th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist and inventor (d. 1979) |
| 26th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964) |
| 26th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) |
| 26th of September 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976) |
| 26th of September 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968) |
| 26th of September 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929) |
| 26th of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | George Raft, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 26th of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Stroop, German Nazi SS officer (d. 1952) |
| 26th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917) |
| 26th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Paul VI (d. 1978) |
| 26th of September 1898 | BIRTHDAY | George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937) |
| 26th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 26th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983) |
| 26th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992) |
| 26th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992) |
| 26th of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (d. 1975) |
| 26th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998) |
| 26th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009) |
| 26th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (d. 2011) |
| 26th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Real Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976) |
| 26th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980) |
| 26th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher |
| 26th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Takis Miliadis, Greek actor (d. 1985) |
| 26th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, French-born pretender to the Russian throne |
| 26th of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer |
| 26th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982) |
| 26th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist |
| 26th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000) |
| 26th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Enzo Bearzot, Italian football player and manager (d. 2010) |
| 26th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990) |
| 26th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007) |
| 26th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick O'Neal, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 26th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor |
| 26th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Brown, English mountaineer |
| 26th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966) |
| 26th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Parnell, American convicted sex offender (d. 2008) |
| 26th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Manmohan Singh, Indian politician |
| 26th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident |
| 26th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Herd, American actor |
| 26th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Douglas, American actress |
| 26th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (d. 2007) |
| 26th of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist |
| 26th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003) |
| 26th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Weintraub, American film producer |
| 26th of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Jacob Krogh, Norwegian journalist (d. 2010) |
| 26th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Tomlinson, English actor |
| 26th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Martine Beswick, English actress and model |
| 26th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor |
| 26th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kent McCord, American actor |
| 26th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver |
| 26th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster |
| 26th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Robinson, English television host |
| 26th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Beaudoin, French-Canadian politician |
| 26th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music) |
| 26th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gal Costa, Brazilian singer |
| 26th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Todd Whitman, American politician |
| 26th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005) |
| 26th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Togo Igawa, Japanese actor |
| 26th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Simonson, American comic book writer and editor |
| 26th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician |
| 26th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Anderson, American country music singer |
| 26th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Lavil, French singer |
| 26th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress |
| 26th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Smiley, American novelist |
| 26th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player |
| 26th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Minette Walters, English novelist |
| 26th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Tifo, Canadian actress |
| 26th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician |
| 26th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Predrag Miletic, Serbian actor |
| 26th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer |
| 26th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Benigno, American radio personality |
| 26th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager |
| 26th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Carlene Carter, American singer |
| 26th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Butler, American racing driver |
| 26th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Hamilton, American actress |
| 26th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician |
| 26th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Darby Crash, American singer (The Germs) (d. 1980) |
| 26th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kagan, American historian |
| 26th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Gedman, American baseball player |
| 26th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Fich, Danish actress |
| 26th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue) |
| 26th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Will Self, English author |
| 26th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Haddon, English author |
| 26th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress |
| 26th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Foster, Australian con artist |
| 26th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Al Pitrelli, American guitarist (Megadeth) |
| 26th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lysette Anthony, English actress |
| 26th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Nemechek, American NASCAR driver |
| 26th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Martinez, American baseball player |
| 26th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nicki French, English singer |
| 26th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Tempesta, American drummer (White Zombie, Helmet, Testament) |
| 26th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress |
| 26th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer |
| 26th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess |
| 26th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Heyward, American football player (d. 2006) |
| 26th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995) |
| 26th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kara Saun, American designer |
| 26th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Shenkman, American actor |
| 26th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | James Caviezel, American actor |
| 26th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer |
| 26th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Warhurst, English footballer |
| 26th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Petterson, Australian footballer |
| 26th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress |
| 26th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ras Kass, American rapper |
| 26th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Stockman, American singer (Boyz II Men) |
| 26th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Paxson, American actress |
| 26th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers) |
| 26th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Small, Scottish snooker player |
| 26th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper |
| 26th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer |
| 26th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Cepeda, German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat |
| 26th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Muursepp, Estonian basketball player |
| 26th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Paltrow, American film director |
| 26th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Hardelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna, Triakel) |
| 26th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ballack, German footballer |
| 26th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant |
| 26th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sami Vanska, Finnish bassist (Nightwish) |
| 26th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kaylynn, American porn star |
| 26th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Hunger, German artist and designer |
| 26th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner |
| 26th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Harley, English footballer |
| 26th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand rugby league footballer |
| 26th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast |
| 26th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 26th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor |
| 26th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver |
| 26th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress |
| 26th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 26th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 26th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress |
| 26th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Serena Williams, American tennis player |
| 26th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Milian, American actress and singer |
| 26th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aras Baskauskas, American reality show contestant |
| 26th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Burrow, English rugby player |
| 26th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Richardson, British comedian |
| 26th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer |
| 26th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Picone, Italian rugby player |
| 26th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | D'Qwell Jackson, American football player |
| 26th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Archimede Morleo, Italian footballer |
| 26th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer |
| 26th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress |
| 26th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Thore Scholermann, German actor |
| 26th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Talulah Riley, English actress |
| 26th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja) |
| 26th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress |
| 26th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play) |
| 26th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater |
| 26th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Marina Kuroki, Japanese actress |
| 26th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer |
| 26th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Rigby, English actress |
| 26th of September 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan |
| 26th of September 1417 | DEATH | Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (Born 1360) |
| 26th of September 1468 | DEATH | Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (Born 1388) |
| 26th of September 1501 | DEATH | Dzore Drzic, Croatian writer (Born 1461) |
| 26th of September 1620 | DEATH | Taichang Emperor of China (Born 1582) |
| 26th of September 1626 | DEATH | Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (Born 1554) |
| 26th of September 1716 | DEATH | Antoine Parent, French mathematician (Born 1666) |
| 26th of September 1763 | DEATH | John Byron, English poet (Born 1692) |
| 26th of September 1764 | DEATH | Benito Jeronimo Feijoo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (Born 1767) |
| 26th of September 1800 | DEATH | William Billings, American choral composer (Born 1746) |
| 26th of September 1802 | DEATH | Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (Born 1754) |
| 26th of September 1820 | DEATH | Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (Born 1734) |
| 26th of September 1868 | DEATH | August Ferdinand Mobius, German mathematician and astronomer (Born 1790) |
| 26th of September 1877 | DEATH | Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (Born 1809) |
| 26th of September 1902 | DEATH | Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (Born 1829) |
| 26th of September 1904 | DEATH | Lafcadio Hearn, Greek writer (Born 1850) |
| 26th of September 1904 | DEATH | John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (Born 1848) |
| 26th of September 1937 | DEATH | Bessie Smith, American singer (Born 1894) |
| 26th of September 1945 | DEATH | Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer (Born 1881) |
| 26th of September 1947 | DEATH | Hugh Lofting, English writer (Born 1886) |
| 26th of September 1951 | DEATH | Hans Cloos, German geologist (Born 1885) |
| 26th of September 1952 | DEATH | George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (Born 1863) |
| 26th of September 1953 | DEATH | Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (Born 1895) |
| 26th of September 1954 | DEATH | Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (Born 1868) |
| 26th of September 1957 | DEATH | Arthur Powell Davies, American religious minister (Born 1902) |
| 26th of September 1965 | DEATH | James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (Born 1898) |
| 26th of September 1968 | DEATH | Lipman Heilprin, Israeli physician and Israel Prize recipient (Born 1902) |
| 26th of September 1968 | DEATH | Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (Born 1915) |
| 26th of September 1972 | DEATH | Charles Correll, American radio actor (Born 1890) |
| 26th of September 1973 | DEATH | Anna Magnani, Italian actress (Born 1908) |
| 26th of September 1973 | DEATH | Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (Born 1923) |
| 26th of September 1976 | DEATH | Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1887) |
| 26th of September 1978 | DEATH | Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1886) |
| 26th of September 1979 | DEATH | Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (Born 1910) |
| 26th of September 1982 | DEATH | Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (Born 1902) |
| 26th of September 1983 | DEATH | Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Born 1907) |
| 26th of September 1984 | DEATH | Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (Born 1948) |
| 26th of September 1984 | DEATH | John Facenda, American sports announcer (Born 1913) |
| 26th of September 1987 | DEATH | Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer, made the first ascent of Cho Oyu in 1954 (Born 1912) |
| 26th of September 1989 | DEATH | Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer and composer (Born 1920) |
| 26th of September 1990 | DEATH | Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Born 1907) |
| 26th of September 1991 | DEATH | Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (Born 1919) |
| 26th of September 1998 | DEATH | Betty Carter, American singer (Born 1930) |
| 26th of September 1999 | DEATH | Bernadette O'Farrell, Irish actress (Born 1924) |
| 26th of September 1999 | DEATH | Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (Born 1908) |
| 26th of September 2000 | DEATH | Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (Born 1937) |
| 26th of September 2000 | DEATH | Richard Mulligan, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 26th of September 2003 | DEATH | Robert Palmer, English singer (Born 1949) |
| 26th of September 2003 | DEATH | Shawn Lane, American guitarist (Born 1963) |
| 26th of September 2004 | DEATH | Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (Born 1969) |
| 26th of September 2005 | DEATH | Helen Cresswell, British author (Born 1934) |
| 26th of September 2006 | DEATH | Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (Born 1916) |
| 26th of September 2006 | DEATH | Byron Nelson, American golfer (Born 1912) |
| 26th of September 2007 | DEATH | Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (Born 1929) |
| 26th of September 2008 | DEATH | Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (Born 1942) |
| 26th of September 2008 | DEATH | Paul Newman, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 26th of September 2010 | DEATH | Gloria Stuart, American actress (Born 1910) |