Famous Deaths In June - 26

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on this day in history.  

1291  On this day in history death of eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England  

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

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on this day in history.  

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.  

1661  On June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76  

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on this day in history.  

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

1778  Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on June - 26.  

1793  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on this day in history.  

1798  On this day in history eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56  

1810  On June - 26 death of joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)  

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  On this day in history claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies  

1863  Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies on June - 26.  

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

1896  On this day in history louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81  

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

1918  On this day in history death of peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)  

1922  On June - 26 albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73  

1923  On this day in history edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies  

1926  Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies on June - 26.  

1937  On this day in history 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  Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 on June - 26.  

1943  On this day in history 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  Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

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

1947  Death of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) on June - 26.  

1948  On this day in history death of lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)  

1949  On this day in history death of kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)  

1956  On June - 26 clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25  

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1575  On June - 26 birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)  

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

1655  On June - 26 birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent  

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.  

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

1694  On June - 26 birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)  

1702  On June - 26 birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman  

1703  On this day in history birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)