April 26

• 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.{{cite book|author=British Academy|title=1999 Lectures and Memoirs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CStrOxiXL9sC&pg=PA34|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-726230-6|pages=34}}
• 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.{{cite book|author=Marica Tacconi|title=Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria Del Fiore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXpY-Gw0sW4C&pg=PA235|date=8 December 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81704-2|pages=235}}
• 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).

• 1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
• 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.{{cite book|title=Journal of the Earth and Space Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uMwWAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University|page=91}}
• 1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode {{convert|40|mi|km|abbr=out|sigfig=|sp=us}} to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces
• 1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
• 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.{{cite web |url=https://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/diplomatic/c_emigres.html |title=Decree on Émigrés |website=The Napoleon Series |publisher=The Waterloo Association |access-date=25 April 2020}}
• 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
• 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.{{cite book|last=Burbank|first=Richard|title=Twentieth Century Music|location=New York City, USA|publisher=Facts on File Publication, New York City, NY|year=1984|isbn=0-87196-464-3|page=13}}|

• 1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
• 1915 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.{{Cite web|title=Treaty of London {{!}} European history [1915] {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-London|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.britannica.com}}
• 1916 – Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge{{cite news |date=27 April 2016 |title=Joe Clarke and the Battle of Mount Street Bridge |work=An Phoblacht |location= |url=https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/25967 |access-date=30 May 2022}}.
• 1920 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55672106/winnipeg-falcons-191920/ "Winners in first Olympic ice hockey tournament"] Victoria Daily Times, April 28, 1920 (p. 10). Retrieved 2020-07-27.
• 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.{{cite web |title=King George VI {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/king-george-vi |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=4 December 2022}}
• 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.
• 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.
• 1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
• 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
• 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
• 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1954 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.{{Cite web|date=2021-11-08|title=The school that pioneered polio shots will give kids the coronavirus vaccine, too|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-school-that-pioneered-polio-shots-will-give-kids-the-covid-vaccine-too/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=The Seattle Times}}
• 1956 – {{SS|Ideal X}}, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
• 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
• 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1962 – The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.{{Cite news|title=50 years since UK went into space|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-17854280|access-date=2022-01-10}}
• 1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
• 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
• 1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
• 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
• 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
• 1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
• 1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
• 1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
• 1991 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
• 1993 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.{{Cite web |last=Lynda |first=Warnock |title=STS-55 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-55.html |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=www.nasa.gov |publisher=NASA}}
• 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
• 1994 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.{{Cite news|last=Daley |first=Suzanne |date=2019-05-08|title=The Day Apartheid Died: Photos of South Africa's First Free Vote|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/world/africa/south-africa-1994-election-photos.html|access-date=2022-01-10 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide.
• 2005 – Cedar Revolution: 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 (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
• 2015 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.{{Cite web|last=Lillis|first=Joanna|date=2015-04-27|title=Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Apologetic for Lopsided Election Results {{!}} Eurasianet|url=https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-nazarbayev-apologetic-for-lopsided-election-results|access-date=2021-01-29|website=eurasianet.org}}
• 2025 – A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-27 |title=Murder charges filed against suspect in ramming attack on Vancouver street festival that killed 11 |url=https://apnews.com/article/canada-vancouver-filipino-festival-deaths-car-6635b400430a7015341d3ca0c4c1e7fb |access-date=2025-05-02 |website=AP News |language=en}}

• 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (d. 180){{cite book|author1=David de La Testa|author2=Florence Lemoine|author3=John Strickland|title=Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSwi2TYabS4C&pg=PA118|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-153-2|pages=118}}
• 757 – Hisham I of Córdoba (d. 796)
• 764 – Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (d. 786)
• 1284 – Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (d. 1324)
• 1319 – John II of France (d. 1364){{cite book|author=D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton|title=The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325-1520|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv1RUpw5ss4C&pg=PA167|year=2000|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-0-85115-795-5|pages=167–}}
• 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (d. 1600)
• 1575 – Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)

• 1647 – William Ashhurst, English banker, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician (d. 1720)
• 1648 – Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706){{cite book|author=S. C.|title=A Trip to Portugal; or, a View of their strength by sea and land ... with the names of their regimental officers, the situation of their frontier towns, and the true prospect of their fortifications. To which is added, a catalogue of their kings ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVxZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA71|year=1704|publisher=John Nutt|pages=71–}}
• 1697 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (d. 1754)
• 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796)
• 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802)
• 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)
• 1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (d. 1866){{cite web |title=Marie-Amélie de Bourbon {{!}} queen of France {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Amelie-de-Bourbon |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=6 September 2022 |language=en}}
• 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851){{cite book|author=Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|title=Boys' Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sv8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30|date=June 1994|publisher=Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|pages=30}}
• 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862)
• 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (d. 1863){{cite book|author1=Gilles Néret|author2=Eugène Delacroix|title=Delacroix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=510NakxgJ5EC&pg=PA90|year=2000|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-5988-9|pages=90}}
• 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1889)
• 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 1876)
• 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (d. 1903)
• 1834 – Charles Farrar Browne, American author (d. 1867)
• 1856 – Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (d. 1938)
• 1865 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (d. 1931){{cite web|url=https://finland.fi/arts-culture/an-artists-mark-on-the-story-of-finland/|title=An artist's mark on the story of Finland (150th anniversary of Gallen-Kallela's birth)|first=James|last=O’Sullivan|website=thisisFINLAND|date=April 26, 2015|access-date=April 26, 2022}}
• 1876 – Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959)
• 1877 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1950)
• 1878 – Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Eric Campbell, British actor (d. 1917)
• 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer-songwriter (d. 1939)
• 1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (d. 1913)
• 1889 – Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951)
• 1894 – Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (d. 1987)
• 1896 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)
• 1896 – Ernst Udet, leading German fighter pilot in World War I and Chief of Procurement and Supply in the Luftwaffe (d. 1941)
• 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1958)
• 1900 – Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (d. 1969){{Cite web|url=http://www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff|title=German graphic designers during the Hitler period: Eva Aschoff|last=Cinamon|first=Gerald|website=www.germandesigners.net|access-date=2017-10-25|archive-date=2020-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821093240/http://www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff|url-status=dead}}
• 1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)

• 1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
• 1905 – Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter (d. 1934)
• 1907 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
• 1909 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (d. 1986)
• 1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)
• 1914 – James Rouse, American real estate developer (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (d. 1992)
• 1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (d. 2019)
• 1917 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)
• 1922 – J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (d. 1993){{cite web |title=Jeanne Sauvé {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jeanne-mathilde-sauve |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=29 January 2021}}
• 1922 – Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2019)
• 1924 – Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (d. 2019)
• 1925 – Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Frank Hahn, British economist (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Anne McLaren, British scientist (d. 2007){{cite ODNB |last1=May |first1=Alex |title=McLaren, Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea (1927–2007), geneticist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-98949 |access-date=26 April 2021 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/98949 |date=6 January 2011|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}
• 1927 – Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Granny Hamner, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster
• 1931 – Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (d. 2008)
• 1931 – John Cain Jr., Australian politician, 41st Premier of Victoria (d. 2019)
• 1932 – Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Shirley Cawley, English long jumper
• 1932 – Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (d. 2018)
• 1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer{{cite news |last=Ferrell |first=David |title=Carol Burnett |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/carol-burnett/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 11, 2010 |access-date=April 26, 2022}}
• 1933 – Al McCoy, American sports announcer (d. 2024){{Cite web |last=Rankin |first=Duane |title=Al McCoy, voice of the Phoenix Suns for 51 seasons, dies at 91 |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nba/suns/2024/09/21/al-mccoy-phoenix-suns-broadcaster-dead-at-91/75330038007/ |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=The Arizona Republic |language=en-US}}
• 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (d. 2005)
• 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
• 1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2024){{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2024/music/people-news/duane-eddy-dead-peter-gunn-1235988900/|title=Duane Eddy, Grammy-Winning 'Peter Gunn' Guitarist, Dies at 86|last=Morris|first=Chris|work=Variety|date=May 1, 2024|accessdate=May 3, 2024}}
• 1938 – Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league player (d. 2018)
• 1940 – Tan Cheng Bock, Singaporean doctor and politician{{cite web |title=PSP's Tan Cheng Bock turns 85; SDP's Paul Tambyah joins celebration at Teban Gardens |url=https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/psps-tan-cheng-bock-turns-85-sdps-paul-tambyah-joins-celebration-teban-gardens |website=AsiaOne |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en |date=26 April 2025}}
• 1941 – Claudine Auger, French model and actress (d. 2019)
• 1942 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Leader of the Government in the Senate
• 1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
• 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor{{cite book|author=James Stuart Olson|title=Historical Dictionary of the 1950s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSBDF5_L3BgC&pg=PA255|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30619-8|pages=255}} (d. 2022)
• 1942 – Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic (d. 2024)
• 1943 – Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2023)
• 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
• 1944 – Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (d. 2007)
• 1945 – Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (d. 2025){{Cite news |last=Gabriel |first=Trip |date=April 15, 2025 |title=Richard L. Armitage, 79, Dies; State Department Official in a Turbulent Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/richard-l-armitage-dead.html |access-date=April 17, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1945 – Howard Davies, English director and producer (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Dick Johnson, Australian racing driver
• 1945 – Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician
• 1946 – Ralph Coates, English international footballer (d. 2010){{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/dec/28/ralph-coates-obituary|title=Obituries: Ralph Coates |date=28 December 2010 |publisher=theguardian.com|access-date=12 April 2020}}
• 1946 – Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
• 1946 – Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer
• 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
• 1950 – Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (d. 2023){{cite news |title=「シルエット・ロマンス」大橋純子さん急逝 73歳 3月に食道がん再発判明、闘病中の突然の悲報… |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2023/11/11/kiji/20231111s000413H4147000c.html |access-date=13 November 2023 |work=Sponichi Annex |date=11 November 2023 |language=ja}}
• 1951 – John Battle, English politician
• 1954 – Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
• 1954 – Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
• 1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician
• 1956 – Koo Stark, American actress and photographer
• 1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racing driver (d. 2021)
• 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer{{cite book | title = Chase's calendar of events 2021 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2020 | isbn = 9781641434249 | page=243}}
• 1958 – Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager
• 1959 – John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 – Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican politician{{Cite book |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225.pdf |title=Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012 |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-16-092028-8 |editor-last=Historian of the United States House of Representatives |editor-link=Historian of the United States House of Representatives |location=Washington D.C. |pages=684 |chapter=Pedro Pierluisi |chapter-url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225.pdf#page=694 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225.pdf#page=694 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}
• 1960 – H. G. Carrillo, American writer and academic (d. 2020){{cite magazine |last1=Max |first1=D. T. |title=The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/h-g-carrillo-the-novelist-whose-inventions-went-too-far |access-date=14 March 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=99 |issue=5 |date=13 March 2023 |page=32 |url-access=subscription |issn=0028-792X}}
• 1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach
• 1960 – Roger Taylor, English drummer
• 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Chris Mars, American artist
• 1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
• 1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
• 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
• 1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player
• 1963 – Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler
• 1963 – Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player
• 1965 – Susannah Harker, English actress
• 1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
• 1967 – Glenn Thomas Jacobs, American professional wrestler, actor, businessman and politician
• 1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress and singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician
• 1970 – Dean Austin, English footballer and manager{{cite web |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=295|title=Dean Austin |publisher=soccerbase.com |access-date=12 April 2020}}
• 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
• 1970 – Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic
• 1970 – Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1971 – Naoki Tanaka, Japanese comedian and actor
• 1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
• 1972 – Kiko, Spanish footballer
• 1972 – Natrone Means, American football player and coach
• 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager
• 1973 – Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer
• 1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer{{cite web |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=6278|title=Chris Perry |publisher=soccerbase.com |access-date=12 April 2020}}
• 1973 – Óscar, Spanish footballer and coach
• 1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (d. 2021){{cite magazine |last1=Grow |first1=Kory |title=Joey Jordison, Founding Slipknot Drummer, Dead at 46 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joey-jordison-slipknot-dead-1203167/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=28 July 2021 |date=27 July 2021}}
• 1975 – Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist
• 1976 – Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 – Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut
• 1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
• 1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author
• 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor{{Cite web |url=https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/interviews/a11471/tom-welling/ |title=Getting to Know: Tom Welling |last=Audrey Fine |date=September 26, 2006 |website=Seventeen |access-date=March 8, 2018}}
• 1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
• 1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress
• 1980 – Marlon King, English footballer
• 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist
• 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch pop and jazz singer
• 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, English rapper and producer
• 1981 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000)
• 1982 – Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter
• 1983 – José María López, Argentinian racing driver
• 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier
• 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
• 1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer
• 1986 – Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner
• 1987 – Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Melvin Ingram, American football player
• 1989 – Kang Daesung, South Korean singer{{Cite web | url=https://aminoapps.com/c/big-bang-amino/page/item/kang-daesung/QYlb_q6HYI35Mnj3K3bnm0DrMMnpk2rRJ6 | title=🐼Kang Daesung🐼 | Wiki | Big Bang Amino Amino }}
• 1990 – Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer{{cite web |title=Jonathan dos Santos |url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/jonathan-dos-santos/ |website=mlssoccer.com |publisher=MLS |access-date=25 April 2024}}
• 1990 – Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012)
• 1990 – Joey Wendle, American baseball player{{cite web |title=Joey Wendle Bio |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/joey-wendle-621563 |website=MLB.com |publisher=MLB |access-date=25 April 2024}}
• 1991 – Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer
• 1991 – Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 – Aaron Judge, American baseball player
• 1992 – Delon Wright, American basketball player{{Cite web |title=Delon Wright {{!}} Atlanta Hawks |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1626153,%20https://www.nba.com/player/1626153/delon_wright/ |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=www.nba.com |language=en}}
• 1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver{{cite book|author=Chicane|title=The Fastest Show on Earth: The Mammoth Book of Formula 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3udeBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT256|date=3 September 2015|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-4721-1052-7|pages=256}}
• 1994 – Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer{{cite web |title=Odysseas Vlachodimos |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/20547/Odysseas-Vlachodimos/overview |website=premierleague.com |publisher=Premier League |access-date=25 April 2024}}
• 1996 – Jordan Pefok, American footballer{{Cite web | url=https://ussoccerplayers.com/player/jordan-pefok-usmnt | title=Jordan Pefok – USMNT | date=9 September 2021 }}
• 1997 – Max Hechtman, American filmmaker, video editor and videographer{{Cite web|first=Cognac|last=Wellerlane|title=Award Winners Announced at the 26th Annual Long Island International Film Expo Closing Ceremony|url=https://www.cognacscornermagazine.com/long-island-international-film-expo|access-date=2024-05-04|website=Cognacs Corner Magazine|language=en}}
• 1997 – Kirill Kaprizov, Russian ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Kirill Kaprizov Stats And News |url=https://www.nhl.com/wild/player/kirill-kaprizov-8478864 |website=NHL.com |access-date=April 24, 2025}}
• 1997 – Amber Midthunder, American actress{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B_eK_uhnU4V/?hl=en|title=22, what a year you were. I'll miss you (and having a @taylorswift song titled after my age). Hello 👋🏼 23. Thank you for all the birthday wishes💖|publisher=Amber Midthunder on Instagram|date=April 27, 2020}}
• 1997 – Calvin Verdonk, Indonesian footballer{{Cite web | url=https://www.nec-nijmegen.nl/teams/speler/calvin-verdonk-2.htm | title=Calvin Verdonk | date=11 March 2025}}
• 2001 – Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer{{Cite news |last1=Christenson |first1=Marcus |last2=Powell |first2=Jim |last3=Blight |first3=Garry |last4=Hulley-Jones |first4=Frank |title=Next Generation 2018: 60 of the best young talents in world football |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2018/oct/11/next-generation-2018-60-of-the-best-young-talents-in-world-football |access-date=2022-04-27 |issn=0261-3077}}
• 2005 – Alex Sarr, French basketball player{{cite web |title=Alex Sarr - Washington Wizards Power Forward |url=https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/5160992/alex-sarr |website=ESPN |access-date=April 24, 2025}}

• 499 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (b. 467)
• 645 – Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (b. 560)
• 680 – Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (b. 602)
• 757 – Pope Stephen II (b. 715)
• 893 – Chen Jingxuan, general of the Tang Dynasty
• 962 – Adalbero I, bishop of Metz
• 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
• 1366 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1392 – Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (b. 1338)
• 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
• 1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1453)
• 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1465)
• 1558 – Jean Fernel, French physician (b. 1497){{cite journal |last1=BONO |first1=JAMES J. |last2=SCHMITT |first2=CHARLES B. |title=AN UNKNOWN LETTER OF JACQUES DALÉCHAMPS TO JEAN FERNEL: LOCAL AUTONOMY VERSUS CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |date=1979 |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=100–127 |jstor=44451300 |pmid=387127 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |issn=0007-5140}}

• 1686 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)
• 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1651)
• 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
• 1789 – Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
• 1809 – Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748){{NDB |23|486|487|Schott, Peter Bernhard|Brück, Marion|118610546|ref=none}}
• 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)

• 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1915 – Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist (b. 1858){{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Pauline U. |url=https://rsc.byu.edu/book/pioneer-women-arizona |title=Pioneer Women of Arizona |publisher=Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-9443-9409-7 |editor-last=Clayton |editor-first=Roberta Flake |edition=2nd |location=Provo and Salt Lake City |pages=741–747 |chapter=Ida Frances Hunt Udall |editor-last2=Ellis |editor-first2=Catherine H. |editor-last3=Boone |editor-first3=David F. |chapter-url=https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/pdf/U.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007023022/https://rsc.byu.edu/sites/default/files/pub_content/pdf/U.pdf |archive-date=October 7, 2022 |url-status=live}}
• 1916 – Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1890){{cite journal |last1=de Marchis |first1=Giorgio |title=Sá-Carneiro, Mário de (1890–1916) |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |date=15 October 2018 |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM2013-1|isbn=9781135000356 }}
• 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1934 – Konstantin Vaginov, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1899){{cite journal |title=Vaginov, Konstantin Konstantinovich Wagenheim (1899-1934) |date=2016 |journal=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |last1=Pavlov |first1=Evgeny |doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM692-1}}
• 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
• 1950 – George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
• 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882)
• 1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (b. 1886)
• 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (b. 1911)
• 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
• 1987 – John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1923)
• 1989 – Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (b. 1923)
• 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1957)
• 1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (b. 1961){{cite web |title=Jill Dando {{!}} Jill Dando murder |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/apr/27/guardianobituaries.jilldando |website=The Guardian |date=27 April 1999 |access-date=27 April 2021}}
• 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
• 2003 – Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
• 2004 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1925){{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elisabeth-Domitien|title=Elisabeth Domitien {{!}} prime minister of Central African Republic|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2018-02-13}}
• 2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (b. 1938){{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/arpad-orban|title=Arpad ORBAN - Olympic Football | Hungary|date=June 13, 2016|website=International Olympic Committee}}
• 2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930)
• 2013 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (b. 1948){{cite news |last1=Gerson |first1=Jen |title=Man who ran Canada's only shelter dedicated solely to male victims of domestic abuse dies in apparent suicide |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/earl-silverman-who-ran-mens-safe-house-dies-in-apparent-suicide |access-date=26 April 2023 |work=National Post |date=28 April 2013 |language=en-CA}}
• 2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927)
• 2014 – DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (b. 1979)
• 2015 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2015 – Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2022 – Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (b. 1947){{Cite web |date=2022-04-29 |title=Klaus Schulze obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/29/klaus-schulze-obituary |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 2023 – Jerry Apodaca, American politician, 24th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1934){{cite web |last1=Casaus |first1=Phill |title=Former N.M. Gov. Jerry Apodaca dies at 88 |url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/former-n-m-gov-jerry-apodaca-dies-at-88/article_3f7579f8-e48c-11ed-b597-6bf540116997.html |website=Santa Fe New Mexican |date=26 April 2023 |access-date=April 26, 2023}}
• 2023 – Tangaraju Suppiah, Singaporean drug trafficker (b. 1977){{cite news |date= 26 April 2023 |url=https://www.todayonline.com/world/singapore-executes-citizen-cannabis-trafficking-2158711 |website=TODAY|title=Singapore executes citizen for cannabis trafficking }}

• Chernobyl disaster related observances:
• Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus)
• Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia)
• Christian feast day:
• Aldobrandesca (or Alda)
• Franca Visalta
• Lucidius of Verona
• Our Lady of Good Counsel
• Pope Anacletus and Marcellinus
• Rafael Arnáiz Barón
• Riquier
• Paschasius Radbertus
• Peter of Rates (or of Braga)
• Robert Hunt (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Stephen of Perm, see also Old Permic Alphabet Day
• Trudpert
• April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Confederate Memorial Day (Florida, United States)
• Union Day (Tanzania)
• World Intellectual Property Day{{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |date=6 January 2015}}

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• [https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/26 Historical Events on April 26]

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