Famous Deaths In June - 26

0363  On June - 26 flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies  

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on June - 26.  

1541  On June - 26 death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima  

1631  On this day in history justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies  

1657  On June - 26 tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65  

1661  On this day in history lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76  

1666  On June - 26 richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies  

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on this day in history.  

1778  On June - 26 angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77  

1793  On June - 26 gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies  

1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1810  Death of Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) on June - 26.  

1819  Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1827  Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies on this day in history.  

1836  Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies on June - 26.  

1863  Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies on this day in history.  

1878  Death of Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) on June - 26.  

1896  Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 on June - 26.  

1906  On June - 26 alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76  

1918  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on this day in history.  

1922  On this day in history albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73  

1923  Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies on June - 26.  

1926  On this day in history christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies  

1937  On June - 26 georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82  

1938  On June - 26 james Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67  

1939  On June - 26 ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65  

1943  On June - 26 death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39  

1944  Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies on this day in history.  

1945  On June - 26 erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54  

1946  Death of Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895) on this day in history.  

1947  On June - 26 death of richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)  

1948  Death of Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924) on this day in history.  

1949  Death of Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876) on this day in history.  

1956  Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 on June - 26.  

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.  

1582  On this day in history birth of johannes Schultz, composer  

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on June - 26.  

1681  On this day in history birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)  

1689  Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769) was born on June - 26.  

1694  On this day in history birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)  

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on this day in history.  

1703  Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) was born on June - 26.