Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

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

1291  On June - 26 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 June - 26.   

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

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

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on June - 26.   

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  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 June - 26.   

1827  On June - 26 christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies   

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

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

1878  On this day in history death of mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 June - 26 christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies   

1937  Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54   

1946  Death of Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895) on June - 26.   

1947  Death of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) on this day in history.   

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  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 June - 26.   

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

1655  On June - 26 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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