13 notable people died on September 26, including Leopold Ruzicka, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Jakob Gadolin.
20th Century
9 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)
Uday Shankar
actorchoreographer
Indian dancer, choreographer, and actor (1900-1977)
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
educational theoristfreedom fighter
Indian freedom fighter and political activist (1900-1966)
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
composerlyricist
Indian singer (1920–1989)
19th Century
3 deaths
Jakob Gadolin
astronomerLutheran pastor
Finnish bishop
James Ferguson
astronomerengineer
American astronomer (1797–1867)
José Antonio Saco
economisthistorian
Historian, writer, social critic, abolitionist (1797–1879)
16th Century
1 death
Theodore Bibliander
linguisttheologian
Swiss orientalist and linguist
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