Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

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

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  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.   

1661  Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 on June - 26.   

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

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

1778  On June - 26 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  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  On this day in history 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 June - 26.   

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

1906  Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

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  On June - 26 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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 June - 26.   

1582  On June - 26 birth of johannes Schultz, composer   

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

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  On June - 26 birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

1702  Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman was born on June - 26.   

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