Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

0363  Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies on June - 26.   

1291  On June - 26 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 this day in history lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

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

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on June - 26.   

1778  Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71   

1827  On June - 26 christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies   

1836  On June - 26 claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies   

1863  Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies on June - 26.   

1878  On this day in history death of mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)   

1896  On this day in history louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81   

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

1923  Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies on June - 26.   

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

1937  On June - 26 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 June - 26.   

1939  On June - 26 ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65   

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  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 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  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  On this day in history birth of jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent   

1681  Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) was born on June - 26.   

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 June - 26.   

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

1703  Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) was born on June - 26.