Famous Deaths In June - 26

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

1291  Death of Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England on June - 26.   

1541  Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima on June - 26.   

1631  On this day in history justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies   

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

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

1793  On June - 26 gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies   

1798  Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 on June - 26.   

1810  Death of Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740) on this day in history.   

1819  Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 on June - 26.   

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

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

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

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

1938  James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 on June - 26.   

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

1943  On June - 26 death of fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39   

1944  On June - 26 billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies   

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  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 June - 26.   

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

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1575  Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) was born on June - 26.   

1582  Johannes Schultz, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 June - 26.   

1694  On June - 26 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  Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) was born on June - 26.