Famous Deaths In June - 26

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

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

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1778  On this day in history angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77  

1793  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on June - 26.  

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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 this day in history.  

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 June - 26 andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies  

1878  Death of Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) on this day in history.  

1896  On June - 26 louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81  

1906  On this day in history alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76  

1918  On June - 26 death of peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)  

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

1923  On June - 26 edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies  

1926  On June - 26 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  On June - 26 death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39  

1944  Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies on June - 26.  

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

1949  On June - 26 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 June - 26.  

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

1689  On this day in history birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)  

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