Template:Selected anniversaries/July 26
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1502: Christian Egenolff born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1941: Mathematician and academic Henri Lebesgue born. He developed a theory of integration which generalizes the 17th century concept of integration (summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis
2000: Mathematician and academic John Tukey (nonfiction) dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.