Famous Deaths In June - 26

0363  On June - 26 flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies   

1291  On this day in history death of eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England   

1541  On this day in history death of francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima   

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

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1661  On June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on June - 26.   

1688  On this day in history ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies   

1778  On June - 26 angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77   

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

1798  On this day in history eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56   

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

1819  On June - 26 johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71   

1827  On this day in history christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies   

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  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 this day in history.   

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  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  On June - 26 ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65   

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  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  On June - 26 death of richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)   

1948  Death of Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924) on this day in history.   

1949  Death of Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876) on June - 26.   

1956  On June - 26 clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25   

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on this day in history.   

1582  On this day in history birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

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 June - 26 birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

1702  On June - 26 birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman   

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