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 June - 26.   

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

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on this day in history.   

1688  On June - 26 ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies   

1778  On this day in history angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77   

1793  On this day in history gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies   

1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

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

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

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  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 June - 26.   

1896  Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 on June - 26.   

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

1918  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on June - 26.   

1922  Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 on June - 26.   

1923  On June - 26 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  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 June - 26.   

1943  Death of Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 on this day in history.   

1944  On June - 26 billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies   

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  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 this day in history.   

1956  Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 on this day in history.   

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

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

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on this day in history.   

1681  On June - 26 birth of hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)   

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

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