Also on This Day in History July 26
Discover what happened on July 26 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, July 26
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1875
Carl Jung
Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology)
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1925
Joseph F. Engelberger
American engineer who, with George Devol, developed the first industrial robot in the United States
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1919
James Ephraim Lovelock
British scientist and environmentalist (Gaia hypothesis)
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1799
Isaac Babbitt
American goldsmith who invented babbitt's metal for bearings
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1863
Paul Walden
Latvian chemist (Walden inversion, room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate)
Deaths on This Day, July 26
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1984
George Gallup
American mathematician and statistician who founded the Gallup Company who became famous for their public opinion polls
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2022
James E. Lovelock
British scientist and environmentalist (Gaia hypothesis)
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2004
William A. Mitchell
American food scientist who invented Pop Rocks candy, Cool Whip, the orange drink mix Tang, and quick-set Jell-O Gelatin
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1977
Oskar Morgenstern
German-American economist and mathematician who popularized “game theory”
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1941
Henri Lebesgue
French mathematician (Lebesgue integration)