4th » Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Famous Birthdays on July in 1826
4th » Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
11th » Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and author (d. 1871)
24th » Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist (d. 1902)
Famous Deaths for July 1826
4th » John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
4th » Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer, architect, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
5th » Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
22nd » Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
25th » Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and publisher (b. 1795)