Famous Deaths In June - 26

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  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1793  On June - 26 gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies  

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1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1810  Death of Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) on June - 26.  

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 this day in history.  

1878  Death of Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) on this day in history.  

1896  On this day in history louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81  

1906  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.  

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  Death of Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 on this day in history.  

1944  On June - 26 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  Death of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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 this day in history birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)  

1694  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.  

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on this day in history.  

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