Famous Deaths In June - 26

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

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

1541  On June - 26 death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima  

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

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

1661  On June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76  

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

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

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

1793  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on June - 26.  

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 this day in history claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies  

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

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  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 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  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  On June - 26 ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65  

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

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 this day in history.  

1948  On June - 26 death of lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)  

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 this day in history.  

1582  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer  

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on this day in history.  

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

1689  On June - 26 birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)  

1694  On June - 26 birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)  

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

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