Famous Deaths In June - 26

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on June - 26.  

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on this day in history.  

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on this day in history.  

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

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

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on June - 26.  

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

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on June - 26.  

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

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

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1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on June - 26.  

1810  On this day in history death of joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)  

1819  Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 on June - 26.  

1827  On this day in history christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies  

1836  Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies on this day in history.  

1863  On this day in history andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies  

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  Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 on June - 26.  

1918  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on June - 26.  

1922  Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 on June - 26.  

1923  Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies on this day in history.  

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

1946  On this day in history death of max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)  

1947  On this day in history death of richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)  

1948  On June - 26 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  Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 on this day in history.  

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on this day in history.  

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

1655  On this day in history birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent  

1681  On June - 26 birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)  

1689  On June - 26 birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)  

1694  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) was born on June - 26.  

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on June - 26.  

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