Famous Deaths Happened 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  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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1575  On June - 26 birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)   

1582  Johannes Schultz, composer was born on June - 26.   

1655  On this day in history birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent   

1681  On this day in history birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)   

1689  Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769) was born on this day in history.   

1694  On this day in history birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on June - 26.   

1703  On this day in history birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)