April 26
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April 26 is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (died 188)
- 1538 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (died 1600)
- 1575 – Marie de' Medici, Queen of France (died 1647)
- 1648 – Peter II of Portugal (died 1706)
- 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (died 1797)
- 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (died 1776), born on May 7 in Gregorian calendar
- 1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (died 1853)
- 1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (died 1866)
- 1785 – John James Audubon, American painter (died 1851)
- 1786 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (died 1875)
- 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (died 1862)
- 1798 – Eugene Delacroix, French painter (died 1863)
- 1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (died 1887)
- 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (died 1903)
- 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War general (died 1872)
- 1845 - Jorge Montt, President of Chile (died 1922)
- 1856 – Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)
- 1862 - Edmund C. Tarbell, American artist (died 1938)
- 1865 – Akseli Gallen-Kalleli, Finnish painter and architect (died 1931)
- 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist (died 1959)
- 1886 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (died 1913)
- 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (died 1939)
- 1888 – Anita Loos, American writer (died 1981)
- 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (died 1951)
- 1892 – John Murray, Australian army officer (died 1951)
- 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader (died 1987)
- 1896 - Ernst Udet, German pilot (died 1941)
- 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-born movie director (died 1987)
- 1897 - Eddie Eagan, American athlete (died 1967)
- 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (died 1984)
- 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish moviemaker (died 1972)
- 1900 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (someone who studies earthquakes), creator of the Richter scale (died 1985)
- 1909 - Marianne Hoppe, German theatre and movie actress (died 2002)
- 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie director (died 1997)
- 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American author (died 1986)
- 1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
- 1917 - Virgil Trucks, American baseball player (died 2013)
- 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (died 2004)
- 1925 - Zvi Yavetz, Israeli historian (died 2013)
- 1926 – David Coleman, British sports broadcaster
- 1930 - Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
- 1932 – Francis Lai, French movie score composer
- 1932 – Michael Smith, British-born chemist (died 2000)
- 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress and comedienne
- 1933 – Arno Allan-Penzias, German-born physicist
- 1938 – Duane Eddy, American guitarist
- 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
- 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
- 1945 - Richard Armitage, American politician
- 1947 – Warren Clarke, British actor
- 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentine footballer
- 1950 – Thomas Quick, Swedish serial killer
- 1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician
- 1956 - Koo Stark, American actress
- 1958 - John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish peer and racing driver
- 1959 - John Corabi, American singer and musician
- 1959 – Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
- 1960 – Roger Andrew Taylor, British drummer (Duran Duran)
- 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
- 1961 - Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
- 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
- 1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
- 1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist
- 1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, British actress
- 1967 – Glenn Jacob, American Wrestler
- 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian model
- 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer
- 1973 - Lee Woon-Jae, South Korean footballer
- 1973 - Gedeon Naudet, French-born American movie maker
- 1974 - Adil Ray, British radio presenter
- 1975 – Nerina Pallot, British singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
- 1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist
- 1977 - Raphael Wicky, Swiss footballer
- 1977 - Craig Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 - Elson Becerra, Colombian footballer (d. 2006)
- 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
- 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
- 1980 - Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
- 1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
- 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, British singer and musician
- 1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch singer
- 1982 – Nadja Benaissa, German singer
- 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American POW
- 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
- 1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, South Korean singer and actress
- 1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress
- 1989 - Daesung, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
- 1990 - Kim Yu-mi, South Korean model
- 1992 – Danielle Hope, English actress and singer
Deaths [change]
- 499 - Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei in China (b. 467)
- 757 – Pope Stephen II
- 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
- 1196 – Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1157)
- 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
- 1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1453)
- 1478 – Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1453)
- 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
- 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed United States President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
- 1910 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian author (b. 1832)
- 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
- 1938 – Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (b. 1859)
- 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist (b. 1874)
- 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
- 1946 – James Larkin White, American, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
- 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
- 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese creator of Karate (b. 1868)
- 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist (b. 1883)
- 1970 - Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888)
- 1976 – Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Count Basie, American musician (b. 1904)
- 1986 - Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian humanitarian (b. 1919)
- 1988 - Valerie Solanas, American feminist (b. 1936)
- 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Carmine Coppola, American conductor and composer (b. 1910)
- 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Japanese Kyokushin karate (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
- 1999 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
- 2002 – Robert Steinhauser, German spree killer in the Erfurt massacre (b. 1983)
- 2003 - Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
- 2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and movie executive (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
- 2013 - George Jones, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
Events [change]
- 1315 – Robert the Bruce opens the first Scottish Parliament.
- 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
- 1564 – William Shakespeare is baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
- 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1721 - A massive earthquake hits Tabriz, present-day Iran.
- 1803 - Meteor fragments, in their thousands, fall from the skies above L'Aigle, France.
- 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina.
- 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
- 1876 – In football, FC Copenhagen is founded. It is the oldest Football Club in Denmark and Northern Europe.
- 1903 - In football, Spanish club Atletico Madrid is founded.
- 1923 – Future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.
- 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1942 – The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
- 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
- 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1960 – The April Revolution in South Korea leads to the resignation of President Rhee Syng-man, who had ruled for 12 years.
- 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
- 1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario has to be abandoned after 15 minutes after rioting.
- 1966 – The IOC decides that Munich should host the 1972 Summer Olympics.
- 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangam-do, South Korea.
- 1986 – In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
- 1989 – The deadliest-ever tornado kills over 1,000 people in central Bangladesh.
- 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
- 1994 – South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
- 1994 – A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
- 2000 – The Andorra national football team scores its first-ever win; 2-0 against the Belarus national football team. Andorra had joined FIFA in 1994.
- 2002 – 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.
- 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
- 2012 – Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor is found guilty of war crimes for his role in supplying weapons during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2013 - A fire in a psychiatric hospital near Moscow, Russia, kills 38 people. Only 3 people survive.
- 2013 - The Bank of England announces that Winston Churchill will feature on its five-pound bank notes from 2016.
Observances [change]
- Union Day (Tanzania)
- Confederate Memorial Day (Texas and Florida)
