Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on this day in history.   

1291  On June - 26 death of eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on this day in history.   

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 this day in history lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1810  On June - 26 death of joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)   

1819  Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1827  Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies on June - 26.   

1836  Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies on this day in history.   

1863  On June - 26 andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies   

1878  On June - 26 death of mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)   

1896  Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1906  On June - 26 alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76   

1918  On June - 26 death of peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)   

1922  On this day in history albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73   

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  Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies   

1945  Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54 on June - 26.   

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 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 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  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

1655  Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent was born on June - 26.   

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman   

1703  On June - 26 birth of thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)