Famous Deaths In June - 26

0363  On June - 26 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 this day in history death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima  

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

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

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

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

1688  On this day in history ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies  

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

1793  On this day in history gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies  

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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 this day in history.  

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

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 June - 26.  

1923  Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies on this day in history.  

1926  Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies on this day in history.  

1937  Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 on June - 26.  

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 this day in history.  

1943  Death of Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 on June - 26.  

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

1945  On June - 26 erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54  

1946  Death of Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895) on June - 26.  

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 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 this day in history.  

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.  

1582  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer  

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on June - 26.  

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

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.