Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26
Tuesday, 04 November 2025
0363 On this day in history 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 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 June - 26. 

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

1666 On this day in history richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies 

1688 On June - 26 ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies 

1778 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on June - 26. 

1793 On this day in history 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 June - 26. 

1819 On this day in history johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 

1827 Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies on this day in history. 

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 On June - 26 death of mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) 

1896 On June - 26 louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 

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

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

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 June - 26. 

1938 On June - 26 james Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 

1939 On this day in history 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 Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies on this day in history. 

1945 Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history. 

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

1947 On this day in history death of richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) 

1948 On this day in history 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 Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 on June - 26. 

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