Famous Deaths In June - 26
Sunday, 24 September 2023
0363 Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on this day in history.
1291 On this day in history 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 Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on this day in history.
1657 Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.
1661 On June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76
1666 Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on this day in history.
1688 Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on this day in history.
1778 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on June - 26.
1793 Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on this day in history.
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 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 Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies on June - 26.
1878 Death of Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) on June - 26.
1896 On this day in history 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 Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies on June - 26.
1937 On this day in history georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82
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 June - 26.
1943 On this day in history death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39
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 this day in history.
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 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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