Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: Dec-26

Died on This Day (Dec-26)

Person Person Description Age Anniv
  Janet Wanja Janet Wanja is a volleyball player from Kenya, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #7 jersey. Kenyan volleyball player 40 1
  Bandit Thai drag queen Thai drag queen 38 2
Victoria Lee Victoria Lee American mixed martial artist American mixed martial artist 18 3
Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner South African Anglican bishop and theologian 90 4
George Blake George Blake British spy, a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union British cold war spy 98 5
Sleepy LaBeef Sleepy LaBeef American musician American singer 84 6
Wendy Beckett Wendy Beckett British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art British religious sister 88 7
Johnny Bower Johnny Bower Canadian ice hockey player Canadian NHL player 93 8
Albert Ghiorso Albert Ghiorso Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. Nuclear scientist 95 15
Gerald Ford Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. US President 93 19
  Kerry Packer Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer AC was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. Australian media tycoon 68 20
Jason Robards Jason Robards Jason Nelson Robards Jr. was an American actor. Known as an interpreter of the works of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Robards received two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. American actor 78 25
Walter Horn Walter Horn German art historian German art historian 87 30
  Nancy Cruzan Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U. Right to die campaigner 33 35
  Dian Fossey Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. American zoologist 53 40
Jean-Louis Baribeau Jean-Louis Baribeau Jean-Louis Baribeau was a Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons. Canadian politician 82 50
John W. Harreld John W. Harreld John William Harreld was a United States representative and Senator from Oklahoma. American politician 78 75
Axel Törneman Axel Törneman Johan Axel Gustaf Törneman was one of Sweden's earliest modernist painters. Painter 45 100
William George Beers William George Beers Dentist and codifier of lacrosse Father of modern lacrosse 57 125
Alvin F. Waller Alvin F. Waller Alvin F. Waller was an American missionary in Oregon Country and an early leader at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Oregon pioneer 67 150