Famous Deaths 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  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on June - 26.   

1631  On this day in history justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

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

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1666  On June - 26 richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies   

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

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

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

1798  On June - 26 eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56   

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  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  Death of Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) on June - 26.   

1896  On June - 26 louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81   

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

1918  Death of Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) on this day in history.   

1922  Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1923  On June - 26 edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies   

1926  On this day in history christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies   

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  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 June - 26.   

1945  On this day in history erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54   

1946  Death of Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895) on June - 26.   

1947  Death of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) on June - 26.   

1948  On June - 26 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  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1694  Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.   

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)