| 122611 | October 26 | Death | 1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815) |
| 122612 | October 26 | Death | 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841) |
| 122613 | October 26 | Death | 1919 – Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864) |
| 122614 | October 26 | Death | 1927 – Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898) |
| 122615 | October 26 | Death | 1930 – Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860) |
| 122616 | October 26 | Death | 1930 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872) |
| 122617 | October 26 | Death | 1931 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1859) |
| 122618 | October 26 | Death | 1932 – Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1867) |
| 122619 | October 26 | Death | 1937 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867) |
| 122620 | October 26 | Death | 1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (b. 1904) |
| 122621 | October 26 | Death | 1943 – Aurel Stein, Hungarian-English archaeologist and academic (b. 1862) |
| 122622 | October 26 | Death | 1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857) |
| 122623 | October 26 | Death | 1944 – Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920) |
| 122624 | October 26 | Death | 1944 – William Temple, English archbishop and theologian (b. 1881) |
| 122625 | October 26 | Death | 1945 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1863) |
| 122626 | October 26 | Death | 1945 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (b. 1878) |
| 122627 | October 26 | Death | 1946 – Ioannis Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878) |
| 122628 | October 26 | Death | 1947 – Edwin Savage, English priest and author (b. 1862) |
| 122629 | October 26 | Death | 1949 – Lionel Halsey, English admiral and courtier (b. 1872) |
| 122630 | October 26 | Death | 1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress and singer (b. 1895) |
| 122631 | October 26 | Death | 1956 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (b. 1895) |
| 122632 | October 26 | Death | 1957 – Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) |
| 122633 | October 26 | Death | 1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (b. 1883) |
| 122634 | October 26 | Death | 1960 – Toshizō Nishio, Japanese general (b. 1881) |
| 122635 | October 26 | Death | 1961 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (b. 1886) |
| 122636 | October 26 | Death | 1962 – Louise Beavers, American actress and singer (b. 1902) |
| 122637 | October 26 | Death | 1963 – Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand pediatrician (b. 1879) |
| 122638 | October 26 | Death | 1965 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (b. 1949) |
| 122639 | October 26 | Death | 1966 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932) |
| 122640 | October 26 | Death | 1971 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901) |