Famous Deaths In June - 26

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on June - 26.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1661  On June - 26 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 this day in history.  

1793  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history.  

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  Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies on June - 26.  

1863  On June - 26 andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies  

1878  On this day in history 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 June - 26.  

1906  Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 on June - 26.  

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  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  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  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 June - 26.  

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

1946  On June - 26 death of max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)  

1947  Death of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) on this day in history.  

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

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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 June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer  

1655  On June - 26 birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent  

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.  

1689  Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769) was born on June - 26.  

1694  On June - 26 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 June - 26.