Did you know
Paul Newman has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars".
Notable Deaths on September 26
2008 — Paul Newman
American actor, director, producer, and businessman (born 1925)
September 26 has 109 recorded notable deaths across history, from 800 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
109 source records
800 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on September 26
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1983 Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike, thus preventing nuclear war. Source
- 1905 Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity. Source
- 1919 Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine defeats the White Russian Volunteer Army at the Battle of Peregonovka. Source
- 1799 War of the 2nd Coalition: French troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign. Source
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Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
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Gloria Stuart was known for her roles in pre-code films, and garnered renewed fame late in life for her portrayal of Rose Dawson Calvert in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997), one of the highest-grossing films of all time.
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Béla Bartók is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers.
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Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
More major people who died on September 26
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1820
Daniel Boone
American hunter and explorer (born 1734)
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
2010
Gloria Stuart
American actress (born 1910)
Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, visual artist and activist.
1945
Béla Bartók
Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1881)
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist.
1990
Alberto Moravia
Italian author and critic (born 1907)
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism.
2000
Baden Powell de Aquino
Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1937)
Baden Powell de Aquino, known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing.
1959
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1899)
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia", was a Sri Lankan statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon, from 1956 until his assassination in 1959.
2010
Terry Newton
English rugby player (born 1978)
Terry Newton was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a hooker. He began his professional career with Leeds Rhinos in 1996, before joining his hometown club Wigan Warriors in 2000.
2012
Sam Steiger
American journalist and politician (born 1929)
Samuel Steiger was an American politician, journalist, political pundit. He served five terms as a member of the U.S.
1847
John Oliver Curran
Irish physician (born 1819)
John Oliver Curran MRIA was an Irish physician, medical writer and reviewer.
2013
Mario Montez
Puerto Rican-American actor (born 1935)
René Rivera, known professionally as Mario Montez, was one of the Warhol superstars, appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966.
2013
Azizan Abdul Razak
Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (born 1944)
Azizan bin Abdul Razak was a Malaysian politician who served as the 10th Menteri Besar of the state of Kedah from 2008 to 2013.
1877
Hermann Grassmann
German mathematician and physicist (born 1809)
Hermann Günther Grassmann was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher.
1989
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Indian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1920)
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar, was an Indian music director and a playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, along with several other Indian languages,…
2012
Eugene Genovese
American historian and author (born 1930)
Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.
1937
Bessie Smith
American singer and actress (born 1894)
Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.
1959
Leslie Morshead
Australian general (born 1889)
Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, whose military career spanned both world wars.
1620
Taichang Emperor of China (born 1582)
The Taichang Emperor, personal name Zhu Changluo, was the 15th emperor of the Ming dynasty of China. He was the eldest son of the Wanli Emperor and succeeded his father as emperor in 1620.
1947
Hugh Lofting
English-American author and poet (born 1886)
Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle.
1976
Leopold Ružička
Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He…