Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

0363  On this day in history 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  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on this day in history.   

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

1657  On June - 26 tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65   

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

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

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on this day in history.   

1778  On June - 26 angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77   

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

1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on June - 26.   

1810  Death of Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) on June - 26.   

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

1827  Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies on this day in history.   

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

1863  On this day in history andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies   

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  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on this day in history.   

1922  On this day in history 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  Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies on June - 26.   

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 June - 26.   

1944  Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies on this day in history.   

1945  On June - 26 erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54   

1946  Death of Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895) on this day in history.   

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 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  On this day in history birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)   

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  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on June - 26.   

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 June - 26.   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on this day in history.   

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