Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

0363  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 June - 26.   

1793  Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies on June - 26.   

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

1810  On June - 26 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  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 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  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65   

1943  On June - 26 death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39   

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

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

1946  On this day in history death of max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)   

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 June - 26.   

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 June - 26.   

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1575  On this day in history birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)   

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

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 June - 26.   

1689  On June - 26 birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)   

1694  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) was born on June - 26.   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on this day in history.   

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