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  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on June - 26.  

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

1657  On June - 26 tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65  

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

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  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on June - 26.  

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1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on June - 26.  

1810  On this day in history death of joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)  

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 June - 26 andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies  

1878  Death of Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) on June - 26.  

1896  Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

1906  On this day in history alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76  

1918  On June - 26 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  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 this day in history.  

1939  Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1943  On this day in history death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39  

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

1948  Death of Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924) on June - 26.  

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 June - 26 birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)  

1582  Johannes Schultz, composer was born on this day in history.  

1655  On this day in history 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 June - 26 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 June - 26.  

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