Famous Deaths In June - 26

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

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.  

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

1666  On June - 26 richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies  

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 June - 26.  

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1798  On June - 26 eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56  

1810  Death of Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) on this day in history.  

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

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  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 this day in history louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81  

1906  On June - 26 alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76  

1918  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on June - 26.  

1922  Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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  On June - 26 georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82  

1938  On June - 26 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  On this day in history 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 June - 26 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  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.  

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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  On June - 26 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 June - 26.  

1694  On this day in history birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)  

1702  On this day in history birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman  

1703  On June - 26 birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)