On this day: 26 June
Events, births and deaths on 26 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Lalo Schifrin
- Deaths · Carolyn McCarthy
- Deaths · Bill Moyers
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1933 · Births · Claudio Abbado
- 1922 · Births · Eleanor Parker
- 1922 · Deaths · Albert I, Prince of Monaco
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 985 · Deaths · Ramiro III of León
- 1090 · Deaths · Jaromír
- 1095 · Deaths · Robert of Hereford
Events · 23
- 1243(Julian date)Battle of Köse Dağ — 1243 Mongol decisive victory over the Seljuq Sultanate
- 1522(Julian date)Siege of Rhodes — second and ultimately successful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to expel the Knights of Rhodes from their island stronghold
- 1539(Julian date)Battle of Chausa — 1539 military engagement between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri
- 1656Battle of the Dardanelles — 1656 naval battle
- 1740Siege of Fort Mose — 26 June 1740 action of the War of Jenkins' Ear
- 1794Battle of Fleurus — 1794 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1887Convention of France - Qing 1887 — Convention relating to the delimitation of the frontier between China and Tonkin
- 19071907 Tiflis bank robbery — Robbery of bank stagecoach by Bolsheviks in 1907
- 1909Science Museum — science museum in London, United Kingdom
- 1941Kassa attack — 1941 aerial bombing of the city of Kassa
- 1945Charter of the United Nations — 1945 foundational treaty of the United Nations
- 19501950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash — accident in Western Australia
- 1955Congress of the People — anti-apartheid political meeting in 1955 in South Africa
- 1960State of Somaliland — former sovereign state in Africa
- 1963Ich bin ein Berliner — speech given by John F. Kennedy in West Berlin in June 1963
- 1978Air Canada Flight 189 — 1978 plane crash of an Air Canada DC-9-32
- 1981Dan-Air Flight 240 — 1981aviation accident
- 1988Air France Flight 296 — aviation accident at Habsheim air show
- 2003Lawrence v. Texas — 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case declaring anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional
- 20102010 G20 Toronto summit — Governmental economic meeting
- 2015same-sex marriage in the United States — marriage between members of the same gender within the United States of America
- 2015Bloody Friday — Multiple terrorist attacks occurred worldwide on 26 June 2015
- 20262026 Beijing Sunward SA 60L Aurora plane crash — 2026 aviation accident in China
Births · 60
- 1467(Julian date)Ferdinand II of Naples — King of Naples
- 1681Hedvig Sophia of Sweden — Swedish princess (1681-1708)
- 1726Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardinia — King of Sardinia (1773-1796)
- 1730Charles Messier — 18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
- 1821Bartolomé Mitre — president of Argentina (1821-1906), writer, politician
- 1825William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin — British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
- 1854Robert Borden — 8th prime minister of Canada (1854–1937)
- 1865Bernard Berenson — American art critic and collector (1865-1959)
- 1866George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon — British aristocrat (1866-1923)
- 1869Martin Andersen Nexø — Danish writer (1869–1954)
- 1892Pearl S. Buck — Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary (1892–1973)
- 1898Willy Messerschmitt — German aircraft designer and manufacturer (1898-1978)
- 1899Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1899–1918); third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- 1904Peter Lorre — Hungarian and American actor (1904–1964)
- 1908Salvador Allende — 28th president of Chile (1908–1973
- 1911Babe Didrikson Zaharias — American golfer and athlete
- 1913Aimé Césaire — Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)
- 1913Maurice Wilkes — British computer scientist (1913–2010)
- 1914Lyman Spitzer — American astronomer (1914–1997)
- 1914Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark — Greek princess (1914-2001); elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- 1914Shapour Bakhtiar — Iranian politician
- 1916Virginia Satir — American psychotherapist & non-fiction author
- 1921Violette Szabo — French-British SOE spy
- 1922Eleanor Parker — American actress (1922-2013)
- 1925Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev — Soviet cosmonaut (1925-1970)
Deaths · 60
- 363(Julian date)Julian — last Pagan Roman emperor, reigned 361 to 363
- 422(Julian date)Emperor Wu of Liu Song — Emperor of Liu Song from 420 to 422
- 822(Julian date)Saichō — Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Japanese Tendai school
- 985(Julian date)Ramiro III of León — King of León
- 1274(Julian date)Nasir al-Din al-Tusi — Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
- 1487(Julian date)John Argyropoulos — Greek lecturer, philosopher and humanist
- 1541(Julian date)Francisco Pizarro — Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
- 1688Ralph Cudworth — English clergyman, theologian, philosopher, and Cambridge Platonist (1617–88)
- 1752Giulio Alberoni — Italian cardinal, statesman (1664-1752)
- 1757Maximilian Ulysses Browne — Austrian field marshal
- 1784Caesar Rodney — American politician (1728-1784)
- 1793Gilbert White — 18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)
- 1795Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart — German biologist (1742-1795)
- 1830George IV of the United Kingdom — King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830
- 1836Rouget de Lisle — French army officer (1760-1836)
- 1856Max Stirner — German philosopher (1806–1856)
- 1878Mercedes of Orléans — Queen consort of Spain
- 1883Edward Sabine — British Army general (1788-1883)
- 1918Peter Rosegger — Austrian poet and writer (1843-1918)
- 1922Albert I, Prince of Monaco — Prince of Monaco (1848-1922)
- 1927Armand Guillaumin — French painter (1841-1927)
- 1932Adelaide Ames — American astronomer
- 1938James Weldon Johnson — American writer and activist (1871–1938)
- 1939Ford Madox Ford — English writer and publisher (1873-1939)
- 1943Karl Landsteiner — Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
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