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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of June 0221 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. |
| 26th of June 0363 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. |
| 26th of June 1284 | EVENT | the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany |
| 26th of June 1409 | EVENT | Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. |
| 26th of June 1541 | EVENT | Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. |
| 26th of June 1718 | EVENT | Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. |
| 26th of June 1723 | EVENT | After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians. |
| 26th of June 1848 | EVENT | End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. |
| 26th of June 1857 | EVENT | The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. |
| 26th of June 1870 | EVENT | The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. |
| 26th of June 1907 | EVENT | The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi. |
| 26th of June 1909 | EVENT | The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. |
| 26th of June 1917 | EVENT | The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I. |
| 26th of June 1918 | EVENT | World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood : Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. |
| 26th of June 1924 | EVENT | American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. |
| 26th of June 1927 | EVENT | The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. |
| 26th of June 1934 | EVENT | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. |
| 26th of June 1936 | EVENT | Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. |
| 26th of June 1940 | EVENT | World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. |
| 26th of June 1942 | EVENT | The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. |
| 26th of June 1945 | EVENT | The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco. |
| 26th of June 1948 | EVENT | The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin. |
| 26th of June 1948 | EVENT | William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. |
| 26th of June 1948 | EVENT | Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine. |
| 26th of June 1952 | EVENT | The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties. |
| 26th of June 1953 | EVENT | Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. |
| 26th of June 1955 | EVENT | The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. |
| 26th of June 1959 | EVENT | The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships. |
| 26th of June 1960 | EVENT | Madagascar gains its independence from France. |
| 26th of June 1960 | EVENT | The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland . |
| 26th of June 1973 | EVENT | At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. |
| 26th of June 1974 | EVENT | The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio |
| 26th of June 1975 | EVENT | Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India. |
| 26th of June 1975 | EVENT | Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. |
| 26th of June 1977 | EVENT | The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute. |
| 26th of June 1978 | EVENT | Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish. |
| 26th of June 1991 | EVENT | Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. |
| 26th of June 1995 | EVENT | Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup. |
| 26th of June 1996 | EVENT | Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin |
| 26th of June 1997 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 26th of June 2003 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. |
| 26th of June 2008 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional. |
| 26th of June 1575 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612) |
| 26th of June 1681 | BIRTHDAY | Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) |
| 26th of June 1689 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769) |
| 26th of June 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) |
| 26th of June 1702 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751) |
| 26th of June 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767) |
| 26th of June 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Messier, French Astronomer (d. 1817) |
| 26th of June 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873) |
| 26th of June 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848) |
| 26th of June 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Abner Doubleday, American Major General (d. 1893) |
| 26th of June 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Bartolome Mitre, Argentine historian and politician (d. 1906) |
| 26th of June 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907) |
| 26th of June 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas W. Knox, American author (d. 1896) |
| 26th of June 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (d. 1894) |
| 26th of June 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Watkins, American Confederate soldier and author (d. 1901) |
| 26th of June 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937) |
| 26th of June 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959) |
| 26th of June 1866 | BIRTHDAY | George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923) |
| 26th of June 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Andersen Nex?, Danish writer (d. 1954) |
| 26th of June 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952) |
| 26th of June 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (d. 1960) |
| 26th of June 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) |
| 26th of June 1895 | BIRTHDAY | George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950) |
| 26th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978) |
| 26th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Chesty Puller, American military officer (d. 1971) |
| 26th of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) |
| 26th of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988) |
| 26th of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Hugues Cuenod, Swiss Tenor (d. 2010) |
| 26th of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951) |
| 26th of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (d. 1964) |
| 26th of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008) |
| 26th of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974) |
| 26th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984) |
| 26th of June 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Allende, Former President of Chile (1970 : 1973) (d. 1973) |
| 26th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997) |
| 26th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator (d. 1985) |
| 26th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956) |
| 26th of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (d. 2010) |
| 26th of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Aime Cesaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008) |
| 26th of June 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997) |
| 26th of June 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (d. 2006) |
| 26th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Castellano, American organized crime figure (d. 1985) |
| 26th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Zolotow, American author |
| 26th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer (d. 2010) |
| 26th of June 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003) |
| 26th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945) |
| 26th of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor Parker, American actress |
| 26th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955) |
| 26th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher (d. 2010) |
| 26th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970) |
| 26th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996) |
| 26th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor |
| 26th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Glaser, American Designer |
| 26th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Wilson, British writer |
| 26th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor |
| 26th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981) |
| 26th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965) |
| 26th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist |
| 26th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Turcotte, Cardinal Archbishop of Montreal |
| 26th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Maclennan, British politician |
| 26th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor |
| 26th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald North, American climatologist |
| 26th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension) |
| 26th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist |
| 26th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | James J. Dillon, American professional wrestling manager |
| 26th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture |
| 26th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | John Beasley, American actor |
| 26th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Farrell, American author |
| 26th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Georgie Fame, British singer |
| 26th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader |
| 26th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Bellwood, American actress |
| 26th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer |
| 26th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Davi, American actor |
| 26th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 26th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) |
| 26th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Isaak, American singer |
| 26th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal) |
| 26th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician |
| 26th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark McKinney, Canadian actor |
| 26th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (d. 1997) |
| 26th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin) |
| 26th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Greg LeMond, American cyclist |
| 26th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Preston A. Whitmore II, American screenwriter and film director |
| 26th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Kersey, American basketball player |
| 26th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Harriet Wheeler, British singer (The Sundays) |
| 26th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman |
| 26th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Garfield, American game designer |
| 26th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Minaguchi Yuko, Japanese voice actress |
| 26th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator) |
| 26th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dany Boon, French director, actor and writer |
| 26th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer |
| 26th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer |
| 26th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Sharpe, American football player |
| 26th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Greenwood, British musician |
| 26th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer |
| 26th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Myers, American baseball player |
| 26th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker |
| 26th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Irv Gotti, American record producer |
| 26th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Letscher, American actor |
| 26th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Hayes, American actor |
| 26th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chris O'Donnell, American actor |
| 26th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Offerman, American actor |
| 26th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer |
| 26th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Garou, Canadian singer |
| 26th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper |
| 26th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gretchen Wilson, American singer |
| 26th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jussi Sydanmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi) |
| 26th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Budig, American actress |
| 26th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Striker, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Jeter, American baseball player |
| 26th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys) |
| 26th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer |
| 26th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Kendall, American baseball player |
| 26th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Skiverton, English football player |
| 26th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist |
| 26th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Pawe? Ma?aszynski, Polish actor |
| 26th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Pennington, American football player |
| 26th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist |
| 26th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Jindrak, American Professional Wrestler |
| 26th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Quincy Lewis, American basketball player |
| 26th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andy O'Brien, English footballer |
| 26th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver |
| 26th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brandi Burkhardt, American actress and beauty pageant contestant |
| 26th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Tedder, American Musician |
| 26th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player |
| 26th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Schwartzman, American actor |
| 26th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Vick, American football player |
| 26th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sinik, French singer and rapper |
| 26th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Shelton, American baseball player |
| 26th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hamilton, naturalized Togolese footballer |
| 26th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Sargue, French singer |
| 26th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Vinicius, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Elijah Dukes, American baseball player |
| 26th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Felton, American basketball player |
| 26th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Deron Williams, American basketball player |
| 26th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Aubrey Plaza, American comedian, writer and actress |
| 26th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Walcott, Trinidad and Tobagoian beauty pageant contestant |
| 26th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player |
| 26th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Urgyen Trinley Dorje, 17th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader |
| 26th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver |
| 26th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Samir Nasri, French footballer |
| 26th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer |
| 26th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Houssem Chemali, French footballer |
| 26th of June 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer |
| 26th of June 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Ariana Grande, American actress and singer |
| 26th of June 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alexia of the Netherlands |
| 26th of June 0363 | DEATH | Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (Born 331) |
| 26th of June 1291 | DEATH | Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England |
| 26th of June 1541 | DEATH | Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru |
| 26th of June 1688 | DEATH | Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Born 1617) |
| 26th of June 1784 | DEATH | Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1728) |
| 26th of June 1793 | DEATH | Gilbert White, English ornithologist (Born 1720) |
| 26th of June 1795 | DEATH | Johannes Jahrig, German linguist (Born 1747) |
| 26th of June 1810 | DEATH | Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (Born 1740) |
| 26th of June 1836 | DEATH | Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (Born 1760) |
| 26th of June 1856 | DEATH | Max Stirner, German philosopher (Born 1806) |
| 26th of June 1878 | DEATH | Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (Born 1860) |
| 26th of June 1918 | DEATH | Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (Born 1843) |
| 26th of June 1922 | DEATH | Albert I, Prince of Monaco (Born 1848) |
| 26th of June 1939 | DEATH | Ford Madox Ford, English writer (Born 1873) |
| 26th of June 1943 | DEATH | Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1868) |
| 26th of June 1945 | DEATH | Emil Hacha, President of Czechoslovakia (Born 1872) |
| 26th of June 1946 | DEATH | Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (Born 1880) |
| 26th of June 1946 | DEATH | Max Kogel, SS officer (Born 1895) |
| 26th of June 1947 | DEATH | Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1870) |
| 26th of June 1948 | DEATH | Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (Born 1924) |
| 26th of June 1949 | DEATH | Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (Born 1876) |
| 26th of June 1955 | DEATH | Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (Born 1895) |
| 26th of June 1956 | DEATH | Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1930) |
| 26th of June 1957 | DEATH | Alfred Doblin, German writer (Born 1878) |
| 26th of June 1958 | DEATH | George Orton, Canadian athlete (Born 1873) |
| 26th of June 1958 | DEATH | Andrija Stampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (Born 1888) |
| 26th of June 1964 | DEATH | Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (Born 1888) |
| 26th of June 1964 | DEATH | Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (Born 1889) |
| 26th of June 1967 | DEATH | Francoise Dorleac, French actress (Born 1942) |
| 26th of June 1975 | DEATH | St. Josemaria Escriva, Spanish Catholic priest (Born 1902) |
| 26th of June 1980 | DEATH | Miriam Daly, Irish republican activist (Born 1928) |
| 26th of June 1990 | DEATH | Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (Born 1909) |
| 26th of June 1992 | DEATH | Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (Born 1921) |
| 26th of June 1993 | DEATH | Roy Campanella, American baseball player (Born 1921) |
| 26th of June 1993 | DEATH | William H. Riker, American political scientist (Born 1920) |
| 26th of June 1994 | DEATH | Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and activist (Born 1929) |
| 26th of June 1996 | DEATH | Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (Born 1958) |
| 26th of June 1997 | DEATH | Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (Born 1959) |
| 26th of June 2001 | DEATH | Soccer (dog actor) (Born 1988) |
| 26th of June 2002 | DEATH | Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (Born 1913) |
| 26th of June 2002 | DEATH | Jay Berwanger, American football player and first recipient of the Heisman Trophy (Born 1914) |
| 26th of June 2003 | DEATH | Marc-Vivien Foe, Cameroon footballer (Born 1975) |
| 26th of June 2003 | DEATH | Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (Born 1920) |
| 26th of June 2003 | DEATH | Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (Born 1902) |
| 26th of June 2003 | DEATH | Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (Born 1915) |
| 26th of June 2004 | DEATH | Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (Born 1930) |
| 26th of June 2004 | DEATH | Yash Johar, Indian film producer (Born 1929) |
| 26th of June 2005 | DEATH | Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (Born 1943) |
| 26th of June 2006 | DEATH | Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (Born 1953) |
| 26th of June 2007 | DEATH | Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (Born 1929) |
| 26th of June 2007 | DEATH | Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (Born 1914) |
| 26th of June 2010 | DEATH | Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (Born1969) |
| 26th of June 2010 | DEATH | Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (Born 1932) |