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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Jan 26 1708

    William Hayes English composer and organist born in Gloucester (d. 1777) baptismal date

    Jan 26 1715

    Claude Helvetius philosopher born in Paris France

    Jan 26 1716

    George Sackville Germain 1st Viscount Sackville

    Jan 26 1722

    Alexander Carlyle Cummertrees Dumfriesshire Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770)

    Jan 26 1742

    Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers German composer born in Hanover (d. 1806)

    Jan 26 1763

    Charles XIV [Jean Bernadotte] King of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) Marshall of France born in Pau France (d. 1844)

    Jan 26 1771

    Jacob Andries van Braam colonial director (Suriname)

    Jan 26 1778

    Ugo Foscolo Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)

    Jan 26 1781

    Ludwig Joachim Achim von Arnim German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Jan 26 1786

    Benjamin Robert Haydon Plymouth painter (Waiting for The Times)

    Jan 26 1813

    Juan Pablo Duarte Dominican founding father (d. 1876

    Jan 26 1814

    Rufus King American newspaper editor politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in NYC New York (d. 1876)

    Jan 26 1816

    Lloyd Tilghman Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)

    Jan 26 1831

    Mary Mapes Dodge American writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) born in NYC New York

    Jan 26 1832

    George Shiras Jr. U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)

    Jan 26 1852

    Pierre Brazza explorercolonial administrator (French Africa)

    Jan 26 1857

    Trinley Gyatso 12th Dalai Lama born in Tibet (d. 1875)

    Jan 26 1860

    Harry Micajah Daugherty American politician lawyer and political manager accused of corruption born in Washington Court House Ohio (d. 1941)

    Jan 26 1871

    Warner Fabian [Samuel H Adams] US journalistwriter (Average Jones)

    Jan 26 1878

    A W Dave Nourse cricketer (Grand Old Man of South African cricket)

    Jan 26 1879

    Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans Flemish (stage)author (Tille)

    Jan 26 1884

    Edward Sapir German linguistantropologist (indians)

    Jan 26 1884

    Roy Chapman Andrews American scientistexplorer

    Jan 26 1887

    Marc A Pete Mitscher US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)

    Jan 26 1887

    Franois Faber Luxembourgian cyclist (Tour de France 1909) born in Aulnay-sur-lton France (d. 1915)

    Jan 26 1891

    Ilya G Ehrenburg writer (Fall of Paris The Thaw) born in Kiev Ukraine

    Jan 26 1891

    Wilder Penfield American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)

    Jan 26 1892

    Zara Cully American actress (The Jeffersons) born in Worcester Massachusetts (d. 1978)

    Jan 26 1893

    Bessie Coleman 1st African American airplane pilot

    Jan 26 1893

    Giuseppe Genco Russo Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)

    Jan 26 1899

    Wyllis Cooper American TV narrator (Volume One) born in Pekin Illinois (d. 1955)

    Jan 26 1901

    Ervin Major Hungarian composer born in Budapest (d. 1967)

    Jan 26 1902

    Menno ter Braak Dutch writeressayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Jan 26 1482 Pentateuch the Jewish Bible is 1st printed as a book in Bologna Italy

    Jan 26 1500 Vicente Yez Pinzn becomes the first European to set foot in Brazil

    Jan 26 1564 The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism

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