Famous Deaths Happened In June - 26

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

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 June - 26.   

1631  Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies on June - 26.   

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

1661  On June - 26 lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76   

1666  Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies on this day in history.   

1688  Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies on this day in history.   

1778  Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 on June - 26.   

1793  On June - 26 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 June - 26.   

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

1827  On this day in history christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies   

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

1863  On this day in history andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies   

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

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  Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies on this day in history.   

1926  On June - 26 christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies   

1937  Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 on June - 26.   

1938  On June - 26 james Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67   

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 June - 26.   

1944  Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies on June - 26.   

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

1946  On June - 26 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  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 this day in history.   

1956  On June - 26 clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25   

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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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)   

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

1702  On this day in history birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman   

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