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Aug 26 1627

Thomas Bullis English composer (baptized) (d. 1708)

Aug 26 1687

Willem the Fesch Dutch violinistcomposer (Joseph)

Aug 26 1694

Elisha Williams American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)

Aug 26 1726

Karl Kohaut Austrian composer and lutenist born in Vienna (d. 1784)

Aug 26 1728

Johann Heinrich Lambert German scientist (d. 1777)

Aug 26 1736

Jean-Baptiste L. Rom de lIsle French chemist (d. 1790)

Aug 26 1740

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier French aeronaut (ballooning)

Aug 26 1743

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier father of modern chemistry (identified oxygen and hydrogen) born in Paris France (d. 1794)

Aug 26 1788

Aloys Schmitt German music theorycomposerroyal pianist

Aug 26 1792

Manuel Oribe Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)

Aug 26 1808

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Claiborne County Mississippi (d. 1882)

Aug 26 1811

Danville Leadbetter Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1866)

Aug 26 1813

Nicaise de Keyser Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks)

Aug 26 1819

Albert Bertie von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha husband of queen Victoria

Aug 26 1820

James Harlan (Rep-Iowa)US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)

Aug 26 1833

Charles Jackson Paine American railroad executive soldier and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1916)

Aug 26 1835

Theodore Washington Brevard Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

Aug 26 1842

Heinrich I Quincke German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)

Aug 26 1850

Charles Richet French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)

Aug 26 1854

Arnold Fothergill England cricketer (d. 1932)

Aug 26 1862

Herbert Booth American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)

Aug 26 1870

Aleksandr Kuprin Russian author (Pojedinok) born in Narovchat Penza Governorate Russian Empire (d. 1938) [NSSept 7]

Aug 26 1873

Lee De Forest Council Bluffs inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)

Aug 26 1875

John Buchan Scotland Gov-Gen of Canadawriter (Battle of Somme)

Aug 26 1879

Joe Jeannette American boxer (world coloured champion 1909) born in West Hoboken New Jersey (d. 1958)

Aug 26 1880

Guillaume Apollinaire French poetmovie critic (Alcoola)

Aug 26 1882

Johannes Lindeboom vicarchurch historian (Neth Archives)

Aug 26 1882

Carl Wilhelm de Vries Dutch jurist born in Amsterdam (d. 1967)

Aug 26 1884

Earl Biggers author (Charlie Chan detective series)

Aug 26 1885

Jules Romains French novelistplaywrightpoet (Men of Good Will)

Aug 26 1890

Tommy Andrews cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920s)

Aug 26 1891

Ferdinand Bruckner [Theodor Tagger] Austrian playwright (Races)

Aug 26 1896

Richard Hammond American composer born in England (d. 1980)

Aug 26 1071 Battle of Manzikert Seljuq Turks led by sultan Alp Arslan beat and capture Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes

Aug 26 1278 Battle of Marchfeld Rudolf of Habsburg defeats Ottokar II

Aug 26 1466 A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence led by Luca Pitti is discovered.

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