Famous Deaths In June - 26

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

1291  On June - 26 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  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.  

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1666  On this day in history richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies  

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

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

1793  On June - 26 gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies  

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

1810  On June - 26 death of joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)  

1819  Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

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

1836  On June - 26 claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

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

1922  On this day in history albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73  

1923  On this day in history edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies  

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 this day in history.  

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  On this day in history billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies  

1945  Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54 on June - 26.  

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

1947  Death of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) on June - 26.  

1948  Death of Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924) on June - 26.  

1949  Death of Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876) on this day in history.  

1956  Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 on June - 26.  

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next Page »

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

1582  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer  

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on June - 26.  

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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