Famous Deaths Happened 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  On June - 26 death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima   

1631  On June - 26 justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

1657  On this day in history tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65   

1661  On this day in history lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

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

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

1778  On June - 26 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 June - 26.   

1827  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  On this day in history death of peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)   

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  On this day in history christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies   

1937  Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1938  James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 on June - 26.   

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  Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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  Death of Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876) on June - 26.   

1956  On this day in history clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25   

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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 June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

1655  On this day in history birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent   

1681  On June - 26 birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)   

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 June - 26.   

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

1703  Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) was born on this day in history.