Notable deaths on August 26

American professional wrestler (1960–2024)

Swedish football manager (1948–2024)

American media personality (1923–2023)

American animator (1933–2020)

American playwright, writer, and academic (1927–2018)

American filmmaker (1943–2017)

American civil rights activist (1905–2015)

American theologian (1939–2015)

Filipino Catholic prelate

English writer and broadcaster (1931–2015)

Greek politician

British journalist

French politician

Japanese film director

American historian, professor, musician, and photographer

American football coach

American congressional relations expert, lobbyist, and White House staffer (1921–2013)

French resistance member (1922–2013)

American politician (1950–2013)

American politician, governor of Ohio (1921–2013)

Canadian director and producer (born 1943)

Polish-German scientist

American diplomat (1936–2012)

American advertising executive and composer (1929–2012)