Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

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

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on June - 26.   

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

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  Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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

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  On June - 26 johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71   

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

1878  On June - 26 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  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 June - 26.   

1926  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  Death of Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 on this day in history.   

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  On June - 26 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 June - 26.   

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.   

1582  On June - 26 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  Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769) was born on this day in history.   

1694  On this day in history 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)