| 84451 | July 26 | Event | 2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people. |
| 84452 | July 26 | Event | 2007 – Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy. |
| 84453 | July 26 | Event | 2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India. |
| 84454 | July 26 | Event | 2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities. |
| 84455 | July 26 | Event | 2013 – A gunman kills six people in Hialeah, Florida, and gets fatally shot by police. |
| 84456 | July 26 | Birth | 1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Polish bishop and saint (d. 1079) |
| 84457 | July 26 | Birth | 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1640) |
| 84458 | July 26 | Birth | 1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711) |
| 84459 | July 26 | Birth | 1711 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778) |
| 84460 | July 26 | Birth | 1739 – George Clinton, American general and politician, 4th Vice President of the United States (d. 1812) |
| 84461 | July 26 | Birth | 1782 – John Field, Irish pianist and composer (d. 1837) |
| 84462 | July 26 | Birth | 1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1844) |
| 84463 | July 26 | Birth | 1802 – Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855) |
| 84464 | July 26 | Birth | 1819 – Justin Holland American guitarist and educator (d. 1887) |
| 84465 | July 26 | Birth | 1829 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912) |
| 84466 | July 26 | Birth | 1841 – Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1882) |
| 84467 | July 26 | Birth | 1842 – Alfred Marshall, English economist and academic (d. 1924) |
| 84468 | July 26 | Birth | 1844 – Stefan Drzewiecki, Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938) |
| 84469 | July 26 | Birth | 1846 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American hunter and actor (d. 1880) |
| 84470 | July 26 | Birth | 1854 – Philippe Gaucher, French dermatologist and academic (d. 1918) |
| 84471 | July 26 | Birth | 1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936) |
| 84472 | July 26 | Birth | 1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) |
| 84473 | July 26 | Birth | 1858 – Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943) |
| 84474 | July 26 | Birth | 1863 – Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (d. 1948) |
| 84475 | July 26 | Birth | 1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, German journalist and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939) |
| 84476 | July 26 | Birth | 1865 – Rajanikanta Sen, Indian poet and composer (d. 1910) |
| 84477 | July 26 | Birth | 1874 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951) |
| 84478 | July 26 | Birth | 1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1961) |
| 84479 | July 26 | Birth | 1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet and academic (d. 1939) |
| 84480 | July 26 | Birth | 1878 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937) |