Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 26-Aug

Died on This Day (26-Aug)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Colin Clark	Colin Clark was an American soccer player.	American soccer player	35	1
	Tobe Hooper	Willard Jobe "Tobe" Hooper was an American director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the horror genre.	American film director	74	3
	John J. Gilligan	John Joyce Gilligan was an American Democratic politician from the state of Ohio who served as a U.	Governor of Ohio	92	7
	Aloysius Ambrozic	Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic was a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Toronto.	Cardinal	81	9
	Denis D'Amour	Denis "Piggy" D'Amour was a Canadian guitarist. D'Amour was a member of the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod from its inception in 1982 until his death from colon cancer in 2005, aged 45.	Canadian musician	45	15
	Evelyn Wood	Evelyn Nielsen Wood was an American educator and businessperson, widely known for popularizing speed reading, although she preferred the phrase "dynamic reading".	Speed reading inventor	86	25
	Tex Avery	Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery was an American animator and director, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation.	Cartoonist	72	40
	Eddie Rommel	Edwin Americus Rommel was an American right-handed pitcher and umpire in Major League Baseball.	American baseball player	72	50
	James Wilson	James "Tama Jim" Wilson was a Scottish-American politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture for sixteen years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913.	American politician	85	100
	Alexander George Woodford	Field Marshal Sir Alexander George Woodford, GCB, KCMG , was a British Army officer.	British Army general	88	150

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Neil Simon	Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author.	American playwright and screenwriter	91	2
	Alison Parker	The murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward took place on the morning of August 26, 2015, when news reporter Parker and photojournalist Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta.	US tv news reporter shot dead during interview	24	5
	A. K. Hangal	Avtar Kishan Hangal , popularly known as A. K. Hangal, was an Indian freedom fighter from 1929 to 1947 and also stage actor from 1936 to 1965 and later became a character actor in Hindi language films from 1966 to 2005.	Indian actor	95	8
	William B. Lenoir	William Benjamin "Bill" Lenoir, Ph.D. was an American electrical engineer and a NASA astronaut.	American astronaut	71	10
	Allen Woody	Douglas Allen Woody was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as a co-founder of Gov't Mule.	American bass guitarist	43	20
	Dick Wakefield	Richard Cummings Wakefield was a left fielder in Major League Baseball for 9 seasons with the Detroit Tigers , New York Yankees , and New York Giants .	American baseball player	64	35
	Cullen Landis	James Cullen Landis was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early years of the silent film era.	Actor, director	80	45
	Franz Werfel	Franz Viktor Werfel ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.	Austrian-Bohemian author	54	75
	Friedrich Miescher	Johannes Friedrich Miescher was a Swiss physician and biologist.	Swiss biochemist	51	125
	Johann Christoph Volkamer	Johann Christoph Volkamer was a German merchant, manufacturer and botanist.	German botanist	76	300