Famous Deaths 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  On this day in history justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies  

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

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on June - 26.  

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.  

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

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

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 June - 26.  

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

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  Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 on June - 26.  

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

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 June - 26.  

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 this day in history.  

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  On June - 26 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  On this day in history death of lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)  

1949  On this day in history death of kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)  

1956  On June - 26 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  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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)