On this day: 26 April
Events, births and deaths on 26 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Vancouver car attack
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Harry Wu
100 years ago1926
- Births · David Coleman
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 962 · Deaths · Adabero I of Ardenne
Events · 20
- 1478(Julian date)Pazzi conspiracy — 15th-century plot to displace the Medici family in Italy
- 17211721 Tabriz earthquake — 1721 catastrophic earthquake centered near Tabriz, Iran
- 1915Treaty of London — secret pact between the Triple Entente and Italy, signed in London on 26 April 1915
- 1923wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon — April 1923 wedding of British royal Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
- 1933Gestapo — official secret police of Nazi Germany
- 1941Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation — anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization during WWII
- 1954Geneva Conference — 1954 conference took place in Geneva dealt with the aftermath of Korean War and First Indochina War
- 1964Tanzania — country in East Africa
- 1964Zanzibar Islands — semi-autonomous part of Tanzania
- 1966Tashkent earthquake (1966) — 1966 earthquake centered in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
- 1982CAAC Flight 3303 — 1982 plane crash in Guilin, Guangxi, China
- 1986Chernobyl disaster — 1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
- 1989Daulatpur–Saturia tornado — 1989 tornado in Bangladesh
- 19911991 Andover, Kansas tornado outbreak — Central U.S. natural disaster
- 19941994 South African general election — first South African election held under universal suffrage
- 1994China Airlines Flight 140 — aviation accident
- 2002Erfurt massacre — 2002 mass shooting in Germany
- 2005National Police Memorial — memorial in London
- 2007Bronze Night — controversy and riots in Estonia surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn
- 20252025 Vancouver car attack — attack at the Lapu Lapu Festival in Canada
Births · 60
- 121(Julian date)Marcus Aurelius — 16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
- 757(Julian date)Hisham I of Córdoba — Emir of Córdoba from 788 to 796
- 764(Julian date)Al-Hadi — Arab Abbasid Caliph (r. 785-786)
- 1319(Julian date)John II of France — monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1350 until his death
- 1575Marie de' Medici — Queen of France (1575-1642); second wife of King Henry IV of France
- 1648Peter II of Portugal — King of Portugal (1648–1706)
- 1710Thomas Reid — Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)
- 1711(Julian date)David Hume — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
- 1774Christian Leopold von Buch — German geologist (1774-1853)
- 1782Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily — Queen consort of the French from 1830 to 1848
- 1785John James Audubon — French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
- 1787Ludwig Uhland — German poet and politician (1787–1862)
- 1798Eugène Delacroix — French painter (1798–1863)
- 1822Frederick Law Olmsted — American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
- 1865Akseli Gallen-Kallela — Finnish painter (1865-1931)
- 1879Owen Willans Richardson — British physicist (1879-1959)
- 1886Ma Rainey — American blues singer (1886–1939)
- 1889Ludwig Wittgenstein — Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
- 1889Anita Loos — American actress and writer (1888–1981)
- 1894Rudolf Hess — German Nazi leader and Reich Minister without Portfolio (1894–1987)
- 1896Ernst Udet — German flying ace (1896–1941)
- 1897Douglas Sirk — German film director (1897–1987)
- 1897Eddie Eagan — American boxer and bobsledder (1897-1967)
- 1898Vicente Aleixandre — Spanish poet (1898–1984)
- 1900Charles Francis Richter — American seismologist
Deaths · 60
- 499(Julian date)Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei — Emperor of Northern Wei Dynasty from 471 to 499
- 757(Julian date)Stephen II — pope
- 1192(Julian date)Emperor Go-Shirakawa — 77th emperor of Japan (1155–58)
- 1444(Julian date)Robert Campin — Dutch painter, first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting, 1375–1444 (1375–1444)
- 1478(Julian date)Giuliano de' Medici — Italian politician (1453-1478)
- 1489(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshihisa — 9th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
- 1558(Julian date)Jean Fernel — French physician (1506-1558)
- 1686Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie — Swedish count, general and politician (1622-1686)
- 1716John Somers, 1st Baron Somers — British Baron
- 1865John Wilkes Booth — American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)
- 1881Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen — German-Bavarian general of the infantry (1815–1881)
- 1910Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson — Norwegian writer (1832–1910)
- 1915John Bunny — American actor (1863-1915)
- 1916Mário de Sá-Carneiro — Portuguese poet (1890–1916)
- 1920Srinivasa Ramanujan — Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
- 1934Konstantin Vaginov — Russian writer (1899–1934)
- 1940Carl Bosch — German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
- 1944Violette Morris — French athlete (1893–1944)
- 1945Pavlo Skoropadsky — Ukrainian general (1873-1945)
- 1945Sigmund Rascher — German Schutzstaffel doctor (1909–1945)
- 1947Hisao Tani — Japanese general (1882–1947)
- 1951Arnold Sommerfeld — German physicist (1868-1951)
- 1956Edward Arnold — American actor (1890-1956)
- 1957Gichin Funakoshi — Japanese karateka (1868–1957)
- 1968John Heartfield — German artist (1891–1968)
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