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April 26th, 2007 (April 26 2007) | Event | Queen s Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong s Central district | |
April 26th, 2007 (April 26 2007) | Death | Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (born in 1921) | Jack Valenti Quotes |
April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Event | 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. | |
April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Death | Mason Adams, American actor (born in 1919) | |
April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Death | Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (born in 1926) | |
April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Death | Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (born in 1917) | |
April 26th, 2004 (April 26 2004) | Death | Hubert Selby Jr., American author (born in 1928) | |
April 26th, 2003 (April 26 2003) | Death | Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (born in 1930) | |
April 26th, 2003 (April 26 2003) | Death | Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (born in 1904) | |
April 26th, 2003 (April 26 2003) | Death | Peter Stone, American writer (born in 1930) | |
April 26th, 2002 (April 26 2002) | Event | Robert Steinhauser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. | |
April 26th, 2002 (April 26 2002) | Death | Robert Steinhauser German spree killer (b.1983) | |
April 26th, 1999 (April 26 1999) | Death | Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (born in 1957) | |
April 26th, 1999 (April 26 1999) | Death | Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961) | |
April 26th, 1996 (April 26 1996) | Death | Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (born in 1918) | Stirling Silliphant Quotes |
April 26th, 1994 (April 26 1994) | Event | A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264. | |
April 26th, 1994 (April 26 1994) | Event | Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle. | |
April 26th, 1994 (April 26 1994) | Death | Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (born in 1927) | |
April 26th, 1991 (April 26 1991) | Event | 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). | |
April 26th, 1991 (April 26 1991) | Death | Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (born in 1904) | |
April 26th, 1991 (April 26 1991) | Death | Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (born in 1910) | |
April 26th, 1991 (April 26 1991) | Death | Emily McLaughlin, American actress (born in 1928) | |
April 26th, 1991 (April 26 1991) | Death | Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (born in 1931) | |
April 26th, 1989 (April 26 1989) | Death | Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (born in 1911) | |
April 26th, 1987 (April 26 1987) | Birth | Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15 | |
April 26th, 1987 (April 26 1987) | Death | John Ernest Silkin, British politician (born in 1923) | |
April 26th, 1987 (April 26 1987) | Death | Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (born in 1922) | |
April 26th, 1986 (April 26 1986) | Event | In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world s worst nuclear disaster. | |
April 26th, 1986 (April 26 1986) | Death | Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (born in 1911) | |
April 26th, 1986 (April 26 1986) | Death | Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (born in 1899) | |
April 26th, 1986 (April 26 1986) | Death | Bessie Love, American actress (born in 1898) | |
April 26th, 1985 (April 26 1985) | Birth | John Isner, American Tennis player | |
April 26th, 1985 (April 26 1985) | Birth | Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya | |
April 26th, 1984 (April 26 1984) | Birth | Lee Humphrey, American basketball player | |
April 26th, 1984 (April 26 1984) | Birth | Mija Martina, Bosnian singer | |
April 26th, 1984 (April 26 1984) | Death | Count Basie, American musician and composer (born in 1904) | |
April 26th, 1983 (April 26 1983) | Birth | Jose Maria Lopez, Argentine racing driver | |
April 26th, 1983 (April 26 1983) | Birth | Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W. | |
April 26th, 1982 (April 26 1982) | Event | 57 people are killed by former Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. | |
April 26th, 1982 (April 26 1982) | Birth | Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet | |
April 26th, 1982 (April 26 1982) | Birth | Brock Gillespie, American basketball player | Eric Gill Quotes |
April 26th, 1982 (April 26 1982) | Birth | Jon Lee, British singer (S Club) | |
April 26th, 1982 (April 26 1982) | Birth | Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end | |
April 26th, 1981 (April 26 1981) | Birth | Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer | |
April 26th, 1981 (April 26 1981) | Birth | Ms. Dynamite, English musician | |
April 26th, 1981 (April 26 1981) | Death | Jim Davis, American actor (born in 1909) | |
April 26th, 1980 (April 26 1980) | Birth | Jordana Brewster, American actress | |
April 26th, 1980 (April 26 1980) | Birth | Anna Mucha, Polish actress | |
April 26th, 1980 (April 26 1980) | Birth | Channing Tatum, American actor | |
April 26th, 1980 (April 26 1980) | Death | Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (born in 1893) | |
April 26th, 1979 (April 26 1979) | Birth | Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom) | |
April 26th, 1979 (April 26 1979) | Birth | Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter | |
April 26th, 1978 (April 26 1978) | Birth | Avant, American singer | |
April 26th, 1978 (April 26 1978) | Birth | Joe Crede, American baseball player | |
April 26th, 1978 (April 26 1978) | Birth | Peter Madsen, Danish footballer | |
April 26th, 1977 (April 26 1977) | Birth | Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player | |
April 26th, 1977 (April 26 1977) | Birth | Tom Welling, American actor | |
April 26th, 1977 (April 26 1977) | Birth | Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player | |
April 26th, 1977 (April 26 1977) | Birth | Jason Earles, American actor | |
April 26th, 1976 (April 26 1976) | Birth | Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player | |
April 26th, 1976 (April 26 1976) | Death | Sid James, South African-born British comedian (born in 1913) | |
April 26th, 1975 (April 26 1975) | Birth | Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot) | |
April 26th, 1975 (April 26 1975) | Birth | Nerina Pallot, British singer | |
April 26th, 1974 (April 26 1974) | Birth | Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress | |
April 26th, 1974 (April 26 1974) | Birth | Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network) | |
April 26th, 1973 (April 26 1973) | Birth | Chris Perry, English footballer | |
April 26th, 1973 (April 26 1973) | Death | Irene Ryan, American actress (born in 1902) | |
April 26th, 1972 (April 26 1972) | Birth | Kiko Narvaez, Spanish footballer | |
April 26th, 1972 (April 26 1972) | Birth | Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver | |
April 26th, 1972 (April 26 1972) | Death | Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (born in 1892) | |
April 26th, 1971 (April 26 1971) | Birth | Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts) | |
April 26th, 1970 (April 26 1970) | Birth | Melania Trump, Slovenian model | |
April 26th, 1970 (April 26 1970) | Birth | Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC) | |
April 26th, 1970 (April 26 1970) | Death | Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (born in 1886) | |
April 26th, 1970 (April 26 1970) | Death | Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (born in 1911) | |
April 26th, 1969 (April 26 1969) | Death | Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (born in 1883) | Morihei Ueshiba Quotes |
April 26th, 1967 (April 26 1967) | Birth | Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress | |
April 26th, 1967 (April 26 1967) | Birth | Glen Jacobs, American professional wrestler | |
April 26th, 1966 (April 26 1966) | Event | An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. | |
April 26th, 1966 (April 26 1966) | Birth | Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho | |
April 26th, 1965 (April 26 1965) | Birth | Kevin James, American comedian | Kevin James Quotes |
April 26th, 1964 (April 26 1964) | Event | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. | |
April 26th, 1964 (April 26 1964) | Death | E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (born in 1882) | |
April 26th, 1963 (April 26 1963) | Event | 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. | |
April 26th, 1963 (April 26 1963) | Birth | Jet Li, Chinese martial artist | Martial Quotes |
April 26th, 1963 (April 26 1963) | Birth | Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player | |
April 26th, 1962 (April 26 1962) | Event | NASA s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. | |
April 26th, 1962 (April 26 1962) | Birth | Colin Anderson, English footballer | |
April 26th, 1962 (April 26 1962) | Birth | Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer | |
April 26th, 1962 (April 26 1962) | Birth | Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian | |
April 26th, 1961 (April 26 1961) | Birth | Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress | |
April 26th, 1961 (April 26 1961) | Birth | Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show) | |
April 26th, 1961 (April 26 1961) | Birth | Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements) | Chris Rock Quotes |
April 26th, 1960 (April 26 1960) | Birth | Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran) | |
April 26th, 1960 (April 26 1960) | Birth | Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player | |
April 26th, 1959 (April 26 1959) | Birth | Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter | |
April 26th, 1958 (April 26 1958) | Birth | Giancarlo Esposito, American actor | |
April 26th, 1958 (April 26 1958) | Birth | Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor | |
April 26th, 1958 (April 26 1958) | Birth | John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute. | |
April 26th, 1957 (April 26 1957) | Death | Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (born in 1868) | |
April 26th, 1956 (April 26 1956) | Event | First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas | |
April 26th, 1956 (April 26 1956) | Birth | Koo Stark, American actress | |
April 26th, 1956 (April 26 1956) | Death | Edward Arnold, American actor (born in 1890) | |
April 26th, 1955 (April 26 1955) | Birth | Mike Scott, American baseball player | |
April 26th, 1954 (April 26 1954) | Event | The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. | |
April 26th, 1951 (April 26 1951) | Death | Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (born in 1868) | |
April 26th, 1950 (April 26 1950) | Death | G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (born in 1881) | |
April 26th, 1949 (April 26 1949) | Birth | Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer | |
April 26th, 1949 (April 26 1949) | Birth | Jerry Blackwell, wrestler (died in 1995) | |
April 26th, 1949 (April 26 1949) | Birth | Dominic Sena, American film director | |
April 26th, 1947 (April 26 1947) | Birth | Warren Clarke, English actor | |
April 26th, 1946 (April 26 1946) | Event | 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. | |
April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Event | World War II: Battle of Bautzenlast successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. | |
April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Birth | Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician | |
April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Death | Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (born in 1871) | |
April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Death | Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (born in 1909) | |
April 26th, 1944 (April 26 1944) | Birth | Amien Rais, Indonesian politician | |
April 26th, 1944 (April 26 1944) | Death | Violette Morris, French athlete (born in 1893) | |
April 26th, 1943 (April 26 1943) | Birth | Gary Wright, American singer | |
April 26th, 1943 (April 26 1943) | Birth | Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect | |
April 26th, 1942 (April 26 1942) | Birth | Claudine Auger, French actress | |
April 26th, 1942 (April 26 1942) | Birth | Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat | |
April 26th, 1942 (April 26 1942) | Birth | Bobby Rydell, American singer | |
April 26th, 1941 (April 26 1941) | Birth | Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer | |
April 26th, 1941 (April 26 1941) | Birth | John Mitchell, American composer | John Mitchell Quotes |
April 26th, 1940 (April 26 1940) | Birth | Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer | |
April 26th, 1940 (April 26 1940) | Birth | Cliff Watson, English rugby league footballer | |
April 26th, 1940 (April 26 1940) | Death | Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1874) | |
April 26th, 1938 (April 26 1938) | Birth | Duane Eddy, American musician | |
April 26th, 1938 (April 26 1938) | Birth | Maurice Williams, American singer (The Zodiacs) | |
April 26th, 1938 (April 26 1938) | Death | Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (born in 1859) | Philo Quotes |
April 26th, 1937 (April 26 1937) | Event | Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. | |
April 26th, 1936 (April 26 1936) | Death | Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886) | |
April 26th, 1933 (April 26 1933) | Event | The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. | |
April 26th, 1933 (April 26 1933) | Birth | Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Puerto Rican activist (died in 2005) | |
April 26th, 1933 (April 26 1933) | Birth | Carol Burnett, American comedian | Carol Burnett Quotes |
April 26th, 1933 (April 26 1933) | Birth | Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate | |
April 26th, 1932 (April 26 1932) | Birth | Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 2000) | |
April 26th, 1932 (April 26 1932) | Birth | Francis Lai, French film music composer | |
April 26th, 1932 (April 26 1932) | Death | William Lockwood, English cricketer (born in 1868) | |
April 26th, 1929 (April 26 1929) | Birth | Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (died in 2002) | |
April 26th, 1927 (April 26 1927) | Birth | Jack Douglas, English actor | |
April 26th, 1926 (April 26 1926) | Birth | David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster | |
April 26th, 1926 (April 26 1926) | Birth | Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (died in 2003) | |
April 26th, 1925 (April 26 1925) | Event | 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. | |
April 26th, 1925 (April 26 1925) | Birth | Jorgen Ingmann, Danish musician | |
April 26th, 1922 (April 26 1922) | Birth | Jeanne Sauve, French Canadian politician (died in 1993) | |
April 26th, 1920 (April 26 1920) | Death | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (born in 1887) | |
April 26th, 1918 (April 26 1918) | Birth | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (died in 2004) | |
April 26th, 1918 (April 26 1918) | Birth | Stafford Repp, American actor (died in 1974) | |
April 26th, 1917 (April 26 1917) | Birth | I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect | |
April 26th, 1917 (April 26 1917) | Birth | Sal Maglie, baseball player (died in 1992) | |
April 26th, 1916 (April 26 1916) | Birth | Morris West, Australian writer (died in 1999) | Morris West Quotes |
April 26th, 1916 (April 26 1916) | Birth | Vic Perrin, American actor (died in 1989) | |
April 26th, 1914 (April 26 1914) | Birth | Bernard Malamud, American author (died in 1986) | |
April 26th, 1914 (April 26 1914) | Birth | James W. Rouse, American investor (died in 1996) | |
April 26th, 1912 (April 26 1912) | Birth | A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (died in 2000) | |
April 26th, 1911 (April 26 1911) | Birth | Marianne Hoppe, German actress (died in 2002) | |
April 26th, 1910 (April 26 1910) | Birth | Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (died in 1997) | |
April 26th, 1910 (April 26 1910) | Death | Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (born in 1832) | |
April 26th, 1904 (April 26 1904) | Birth | Paul-Emile Leger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (died in 1991) | |
April 26th, 1900 (April 26 1900) | Birth | Charles Richter, American geophysicist (died in 1985) | |
April 26th, 1900 (April 26 1900) | Birth | Hack Wilson, American baseball player (died in 1948) | |
April 26th, 1898 (April 26 1898) | Birth | Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (died in 1984) | |
April 26th, 1898 (April 26 1898) | Birth | John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (died in 1972) | John Scott Quotes |
April 26th, 1897 (April 26 1897) | Birth | Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (died in 1967) | |
April 26th, 1897 (April 26 1897) | Birth | Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (died in 1987) | |
April 26th, 1896 (April 26 1896) | Birth | Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (died in 1941) | |
April 26th, 1894 (April 26 1894) | Birth | Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (died in 1987) | Rudolf Hess Quotes |
April 26th, 1893 (April 26 1893) | Birth | Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (died in 1946) | |
April 26th, 1892 (April 26 1892) | Death | Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (born in 1791) | |
April 26th, 1889 (April 26 1889) | Birth | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (died in 1951) | Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes |
April 26th, 1888 (April 26 1888) | Birth | Anita Loos, American writer (died in 1981) | |
April 26th, 1886 (April 26 1886) | Birth | Ma Rainey, American singer (died in 1939) | |
April 26th, 1886 (April 26 1886) | Birth | Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (died in 1913) | |
April 26th, 1881 (April 26 1881) | Death | Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (born in 1815) | |
April 26th, 1879 (April 26 1879) | Birth | Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1959) | |
April 26th, 1878 (April 26 1878) | Birth | Saint Rafael Guizar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop | |
April 26th, 1865 (April 26 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. | William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes |
April 26th, 1865 (April 26 1865) | Event | Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln s assassin, in Virginia. | |
April 26th, 1865 (April 26 1865) | Death | John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (born in 1838) | |
April 26th, 1856 (April 26 1856) | Birth | Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died in 1930) | |
April 26th, 1826 (April 26 1826) | Birth | George Hull Ward, American general (died in 1863) | |
April 26th, 1826 (April 26 1826) | Birth | Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (died in 1872 | Ambrose Quotes |
April 26th, 1822 (April 26 1822) | Birth | Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (died in 1903) | |
April 26th, 1812 (April 26 1812) | Birth | Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (died in 1887) | |
April 26th, 1805 (April 26 1805) | Event | United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O Bannon. | |
April 26th, 1804 (April 26 1804) | Birth | Charles Goodyear, American politician (died in 1876) | |
April 26th, 1802 (April 26 1802) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious emigres 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
April 26th, 1801 (April 26 1801) | Birth | Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (died in 1889) | Ambrose Quotes |
April 26th, 1798 (April 26 1798) | Birth | James Beckwourth, American explorer (died in 1867) | |
April 26th, 1798 (April 26 1798) | Birth | Eugene Delacroix, French painter (died in 1863) | Eugene Delacroix Quotes |
April 26th, 1789 (April 26 1789) | Death | Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (born in 1721) | |
April 26th, 1787 (April 26 1787) | Birth | Ludwig Uhland, German poet (died in 1862) | |
April 26th, 1785 (April 26 1785) | Birth | John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (died in 1851) | |
April 26th, 1784 (April 26 1784) | Death | Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (born in 1718) | |
April 26th, 1782 (April 26 1782) | Birth | Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, queen of France (died in 1866) | |
April 26th, 1774 (April 26 1774) | Birth | Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (died in 1853) | |
April 26th, 1718 (April 26 1718) | Birth | Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (died in 1802) | |
April 26th, 1716 (April 26 1716) | Death | John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (born in 1651) | |
April 26th, 1711 (April 26 1711) | Birth | David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (died in 1776) | David Hume Quotes |
April 26th, 1710 (April 26 1710) | Birth | Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (died in 1796) | Philo Quotes |
April 26th, 1662 (April 26 1662) | Birth | Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (died in 1689) | |
April 26th, 1648 (April 26 1648) | Birth | King Peter II of Portugal (died in 1706) | |
April 26th, 1607 (April 26 1607) | Event | English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. | Henry James Quotes |
April 26th, 1573 (April 26 1573) | Birth | Marie de Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (died in 1642) | |
April 26th, 1564 (April 26 1564) | Birth | William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (died in 1616) | William Shakespeare Quotes |
April 26th, 1538 (April 26 1538) | Birth | Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (died in 1600) | |
April 26th, 1489 (April 26 1489) | Death | Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (born in 1465) | |
April 26th, 1478 (April 26 1478) | Event | The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. | |
April 26th, 1478 (April 26 1478) | Death | Giuliano di Piero de Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (born in 1453) | |
April 26th, 1476 (April 26 1476) | Death | Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453) | |
April 26th, 1467 (April 26 1467) | Event | The miraculous image of Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy. | |
April 26th, 1444 (April 26 1444) | Death | Robert Campin, Flemish painter (born in 1378) | |
April 26th, 1192 (April 26 1192) | Death | Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (born in 1127) | |
April 26th, 0570 (April 26 0570) | Birth | Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. | |
April 26th, 0121 (April 26 0121) | Birth | Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (died in 180) | Marcus Aurelius Quotes |