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April 26th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Confederate Memorial Day (States of Florida and Georgia)
- Union Day (Tanzania)
- Vallenato Legend Festival usually begins on this day. (Valledupar, Colombia)
- World Intellectual Property Day (International)

April 26th


- 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 ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).
- 2002 - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
- 1994 - China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- 1994 - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
- 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
- 1989 - The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
- 1986 - A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
- 1982 - 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- 1970 - The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force
- 1966 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
- 1966 - A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
- 1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
- 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
- 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.
- 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- 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.
- 1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- 1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
- 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1928 - Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
- 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.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
- 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
- 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, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
- 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
- 1336 - Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux

April 26th


- 1992 - Danielle Hope, English Actress/singer
- 1989 - Daesung, Korean singer (Big Bang)
- 1987 - Jarmila Groth, Slovakian/Australian tennis player
- 1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American/New Zealand actress
- 1985 - John Isner, American tennis player
- 1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer (See Ya)
- 1983 - José María López, Argentine racing driver
- 1983 - Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
- 1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
- 1982 - Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
- 1982 - Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
- 1982 - Cooper Wallace, American football player
- 1981 - Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
- 1981 - Ms. Dynamite, British musician
- 1980 - Jordana Brewster, American actress
- 1980 - Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
- 1980 - Anna Mucha, Polish actress
- 1980 - Channing Tatum, American actor
- 1980 - Marnette Patterson, American actress, famous YouTube star LG15: The Resistance
- 1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
- 1978 - Stana Katic, Canadian actress
- 1978 - Avant, American singer
- 1978 - Joe Crede, American baseball player
- 1978 - Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
- 1978 - Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
- 1977 - Jason Earles, American actor
- 1977 - Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
- 1977 - Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
- 1977 - Tom Welling, American actor
- 1976 - Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer
- 1976 - Václav Vara?a, Czech ice hockey player
- 1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
- 1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer
- 1974 - Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
- 1974 - Adil Ray, British radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
- 1973 - Chris Perry, British footballer
- 1972 - Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
- 1972 - Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
- 1972 - Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
- 1971 - Shondrella Avery, American actress
- 1971 - Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
- 1970 - Melania Trump, Slovenian model
- 1970 - Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
- 1969 - Teresa Lewis, American murderer
- 1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
- 1967 - Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
- 1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
- 1965 - Kevin James, American comedian
- 1963 - Li Lianjie/Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
- 1963 - Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
- 1962 - Colin Anderson, British footballer
- 1962 - Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
- 1962 - Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
- 1961 - Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
- 1961 - Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
- 1961 - Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
- 1960 - Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran)
- 1960 - Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
- 1959 - John Corabi, American musician
- 1959 - Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
- 1958 - John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
- 1958 - Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
- 1958 - Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
- 1956 - Koo Stark, American actress
- 1955 - Kurt Bodewig, German politician
- 1955 - Mike Scott, American baseball player
- 1954 - Alan Hinkes, British mountaineer
- 1952 - Spice Williams-Crosby, American actress and stunt performer
- 1949 - Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
- 1949 - Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
- 1949 - Dominic Sena, American film director
- 1947 - Warren Clarke, British actor
- 1945 - Sylvain Simard, Canadian politician
- 1944 - Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
- 1943 - Gary Wright, American singer
- 1943 - Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
- 1942 - Claudine Auger, French actress
- 1942 - Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
- 1942 - Bobby Rydell, American singer
- 1942 - Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist
- 1941 - Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
- 1941 - John Mitchell, American composer
- 1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
- 1940 - Cliff Watson, British rugby league footballer
- 1938 - Wolf Kahler, German actor
- 1938 - Duane Eddy, American musician
- 1933 - Carol Burnett, American comedian
- 1933 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1933 - Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
- 1932 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
- 1932 - Michael Smith, British-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
- 1932 - Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar (d. 2010)
- 1930 - Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
- 1929 - Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
- 1927 - Jack Douglas, British actor (d. 2008)
- 1926 - David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
- 1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
- 1924 - H. Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
- 1918 - Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1917 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
- 1916 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
- 1916 - Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1916 - George Tuska, American comic book illustrator (d. 2009)
- 1914 - Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
- 1914 - James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
- 1912 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1910 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
- 1904 - Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
- 1900 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
- 1900 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
- 1898 - John Grierson, British filmmaker (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
- 1897 - Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
- 1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
- 1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
- 1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
- 1888 - Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
- 1886 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
- 1886 - ?abdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
- 1879 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
- 1878 - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (d. 1938)
- 1856 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
- 1826 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
- 1826 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
- 1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
- 1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
- 1804 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
- 1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
- 1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
- 1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
- 1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
- 1782 - Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d. 1866)
- 1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
- 1718 - Esek Hopkins, Commander of the US Navy during the Revolutionary War (d. 1802)
- 1710 - Thomas Reid, British philosopher (d. 1796)
- 1662 - Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
- 1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
- 1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
- 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (baptism) (d. 1616)
- 1538 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
- 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. (d. 632)
- 121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)