16 notable people died on September 26, including Leopold Ruzicka, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Jakob Gadolin.
20th Century
10 deaths
Leopold Ruzicka
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1939)
Geoffrey Wilkinson
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1973)
Pál Turán
mathematicianuniversity teacher
Hungarian mathematician (1910–1976)
Cândido de Figueiredo
lexicographerphilologist
Portuguese philologist, writer, lexicographer and politician
Matei Donici
military officerpoet
Moldovan general and politician
Kazimierz Nitsch
dialectologistuniversity teacher
Polish linguist (1874–1958)
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
composerlyricist
Indian singer (1920–1989)
Uday Shankar
actorchoreographer
Indian dancer, choreographer, and actor (1900-1977)
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
educational theoristfreedom fighter
Indian freedom fighter and political activist (1900-1966)
Chandrasekhara Bharati III
philosopher
Indian Jagadguru
19th Century
4 deaths
Jakob Gadolin
astronomerLutheran pastor
Finnish bishop
James Ferguson
astronomerengineer
American astronomer (1797–1867)
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
composerjournalist
Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller (1793-1866)
José Antonio Saco
economisthistorian
Historian, writer, social critic, abolitionist (1797–1879)
17th Century
1 death
Francisco de Borja y Aragón
military personnelpoet
(1581-1658) Spanish poet and royal official
16th Century
1 death
Theodore Bibliander
linguisttheologian
Swiss orientalist and linguist
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