24 notable people died on June 26, including Karl Landsteiner, Yekuno Amlak, Elizabeth of Schönau.
21st Century
3 deaths
Amnon Kapeliouk
journalistorientalist
Israeli journalist (1930–2009)
Andrey Sakharov
historianuniversity teacher
Soviet historian (1930–2019)
Lucien Hervé
architectural photographerFrench resistance fighter
French photographer (1910–2007)
20th Century
7 deaths
Karl Landsteiner
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1930)
Alfred Percy Sinnett
editing staffjournalist
British writer and theosophist (1840-1921)
D.P. du Toit
writer
South African writer
Alexander Muir
songwriter
Canadian songwriter (1830-1906)
Adrien Hébert
painter
Canadian painter (1890-1967)
CH
Chunseong
philosopherpoet
Korean writer, scholar and monk (1891–1977)
GL
Gheorghe I. Lahovary
engineer
Romanian engineer
19th Century
6 deaths
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
industrialistinventor
French inventor, older of the 18th-century Montgolfier brothers
John Holmes Prentiss
bankereditor
American politician
Johan Gustaf Sandberg
draftspersonpainter
Swedish artist (1782-1854)
Draga Dejanović
journalistpoet
Socially-cultural activist, teacher, actress, writer and publicist
Tobias Barreto
juristliterary critic
Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and critic
José Mariano Jiménez
military officer
Mexican revolutionary
18th Century
4 deaths
Pierre-Jacques Willermoz
chemistencyclopédistes
French chemist
John Montresor
cartographerengineer
British military engineer and cartographer
David Rittenhouse
astronomergeodesist
American astronomer (*1732 – †1796)
Leader of 1702 Raid on Deerfield
17th Century
1 death
Ferdinand von Fürstenberg
Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Prince-bishop of Paderborn and Münster
16th Century
1 death
Hermann Hamelmann
historiantheologian
German theologian
13th Century
1 death
Yekuno Amlak
monarch
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1270 to 1285; the founder of Solomonic dynasty
12th Century
1 death
Elizabeth of Schönau
abbesswriter
German Benedictine visionary
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