Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

0363  On this day in history flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies   

1291  On June - 26 death of eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England   

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 June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

1666  On this day in history 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  On June - 26 gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies   

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  Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1827  Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies on June - 26.   

1836  On this day in history claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies   

1863  Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies on June - 26.   

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

1923  Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies on June - 26.   

1926  On June - 26 christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies   

1937  On June - 26 georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82   

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  On this day in history death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39   

1944  On this day in history billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies   

1945  On this day in history erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54   

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

1947  On June - 26 death of richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)   

1948  On June - 26 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  On June - 26 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 June - 26 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  On June - 26 birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

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.