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 June - 26.   

1657  Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 on June - 26.   

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

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

1688  On June - 26 ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies   

1778  On this day in history angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77   

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

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

1827  On June - 26 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  On June - 26 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 this day in history.   

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  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  On June - 26 death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39   

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

1945  Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history death of max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)   

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

1948  Death of Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924) on this day in history.   

1949  Death of Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876) on this day in history.   

1956  On this day in history clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25   

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1575  On June - 26 birth of anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)   

1582  On this day in history 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 June - 26.   

1689  On June - 26 birth of edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)   

1694  On this day in history birth of georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)   

1702  On June - 26 birth of philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman   

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