Famous Deaths Happened 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  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on June - 26.   

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on June - 26.   

1657  On this day in history tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65   

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

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

1688  On this day in history ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies   

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

1793  On this day in history gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies   

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

1810  Death of Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71   

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

1836  On this day in history claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies   

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 this day in history.   

1906  Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 on June - 26.   

1918  On June - 26 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  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 this day in history georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82   

1938  James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 on June - 26.   

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

1943  Death of Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 on June - 26.   

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

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

1694  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.   

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

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