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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of April 1336 | EVENT | Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux |
| 26th of April 1478 | EVENT | The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. |
| 26th of April 1607 | EVENT | English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. |
| 26th of April 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. |
| 26th of April 1805 | EVENT | First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. |
| 26th of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. |
| 26th of April 1865 | EVENT | Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia. |
| 26th of April 1923 | EVENT | The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. |
| 26th of April 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. |
| 26th of April 1928 | EVENT | Los Angeles City Hall dedicated. |
| 26th of April 1933 | EVENT | The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. |
| 26th of April 1937 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. |
| 26th of April 1942 | EVENT | The Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead. |
| 26th of April 1944 | EVENT | Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. |
| 26th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Bautzen : last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. |
| 26th of April 1954 | EVENT | The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. |
| 26th of April 1956 | EVENT | First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. |
| 26th of April 1958 | EVENT | 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. |
| 26th of April 1960 | EVENT | Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. |
| 26th of April 1962 | EVENT | NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. |
| 26th of April 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. |
| 26th of April 1964 | EVENT | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. |
| 26th of April 1965 | EVENT | A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. |
| 26th of April 1966 | EVENT | An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. |
| 26th of April 1966 | EVENT | A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. |
| 26th of April 1970 | EVENT | The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. |
| 26th of April 1981 | EVENT | Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. |
| 26th of April 1982 | EVENT | 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. |
| 26th of April 1986 | EVENT | A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. |
| 26th of April 1989 | EVENT | 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. |
| 26th of April 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). |
| 26th of April 1994 | EVENT | China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. |
| 26th of April 2002 | EVENT | Robert Steinhauser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
| 26th of April 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 ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ). |
| 26th of April 0121 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180) |
| 26th of April 0570 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. (d. 632) |
| 26th of April 1538 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600) |
| 26th of April 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642) |
| 26th of April 1648 | BIRTHDAY | King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706) |
| 26th of April 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689) |
| 26th of April 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Reid, British philosopher (d. 1796) |
| 26th of April 1711 | BIRTHDAY | David Hume,Scottish philosopher (d. 1776). The date is Old Style. He was born on 7th of May under Gregorian Calender. |
| 26th of April 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Esek Hopkins, Commander of the US Navy during the Revolutionary War (d. 1802) |
| 26th of April 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853) |
| 26th of April 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d. 1866) |
| 26th of April 1785 | BIRTHDAY | John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851) |
| 26th of April 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862) |
| 26th of April 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863) |
| 26th of April 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889) |
| 26th of April 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876) |
| 26th of April 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887) |
| 26th of April 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903) |
| 26th of April 1826 | BIRTHDAY | George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863) |
| 26th of April 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872) |
| 26th of April 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930) |
| 26th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Rafael Guizar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (d. 1938) |
| 26th of April 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) |
| 26th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913) |
| 26th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939) |
| 26th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981) |
| 26th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951) |
| 26th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987) |
| 26th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941) |
| 26th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987) |
| 26th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967) |
| 26th of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | John Grierson, British filmmaker (d. 1972) |
| 26th of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984) |
| 26th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) |
| 26th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985) |
| 26th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Paul-Emile Leger, Canadian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991) |
| 26th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997) |
| 26th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002) |
| 26th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000) |
| 26th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986) |
| 26th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Chester, British comedian (d. 1997) |
| 26th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996) |
| 26th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999) |
| 26th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 26th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | George Tuska, American comic book illustrator (d. 2009) |
| 26th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992) |
| 26th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect |
| 26th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) |
| 26th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 26th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Sauve, Canadian politician (d. 1993) |
| 26th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | H. Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (d. 1998) |
| 26th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | J?rgen Ingmann, Danish musician |
| 26th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster |
| 26th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003) |
| 26th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Douglas, British actor (d. 2008) |
| 26th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002) |
| 26th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Moens, Belgian athlete |
| 26th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar (d. 2010) |
| 26th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Lai, French film music composer |
| 26th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Smith, British-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000) |
| 26th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Burnett, American comedian |
| 26th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005) |
| 26th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Wolf Kahler, German actor |
| 26th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Eddy, American musician |
| 26th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer |
| 26th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Watson, British rugby league footballer |
| 26th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Mitchell, American composer |
| 26th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer |
| 26th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Claudine Auger, French actress |
| 26th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Rydell, American singer |
| 26th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat |
| 26th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist |
| 26th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Wright, American singer |
| 26th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect |
| 26th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Amien Rais, Indonesian politician |
| 26th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Simard, Canadian politician |
| 26th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Clarke, British actor |
| 26th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer |
| 26th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995) |
| 26th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Sena, American film director |
| 26th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Spice Williams-Crosby, American actress and stunt performer |
| 26th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Hinkes, British mountaineer |
| 26th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Bodewig, German politician |
| 26th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Scott, American baseball player |
| 26th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Koo Stark, American actress |
| 26th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute |
| 26th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor |
| 26th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer |
| 26th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Giancarlo Esposito, American actor |
| 26th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Corabi, American musician |
| 26th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter |
| 26th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran) |
| 26th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player |
| 26th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress |
| 26th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show) |
| 26th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements) |
| 26th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Anderson, British footballer |
| 26th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer |
| 26th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian |
| 26th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player |
| 26th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Li Lianjie/Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor |
| 26th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin James, American comedian |
| 26th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho |
| 26th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress |
| 26th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Lewis, American murderer (d. 2010) |
| 26th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Melania Trump, Slovenian model |
| 26th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC) |
| 26th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shondrella Avery, American actress |
| 26th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts) |
| 26th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kiko Narvaez, Spanish footballer |
| 26th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer |
| 26th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver |
| 26th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Perry, British footballer |
| 26th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress |
| 26th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Adil Ray, British radio presenter (BBC Asian Network) |
| 26th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot) |
| 26th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nerina Pallot, British singer |
| 26th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player |
| 26th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer |
| 26th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Earles, American actor |
| 26th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player |
| 26th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player |
| 26th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Welling, American actor |
| 26th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Crede, American baseball player |
| 26th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Avant, American singer |
| 26th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Madsen, Danish footballer |
| 26th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Labine, Canadian actor |
| 26th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stana Katic, Canadian actress |
| 26th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 26th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom) |
| 26th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jordana Brewster, American actress |
| 26th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon King, Jamaican footballer |
| 26th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marnette Patterson, American actress |
| 26th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Mucha, Polish actress |
| 26th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Channing Tatum, American actor |
| 26th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer |
| 26th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ms. Dynamite, British musician |
| 26th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Lee, British singer (S Club) |
| 26th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brock Gillespie, American basketball player |
| 26th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet |
| 26th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cooper Wallace, American football player |
| 26th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Lopez, Argentine racing driver |
| 26th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W. |
| 26th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | John Isner, American tennis player |
| 26th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer (See Ya) |
| 26th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jarmila Gajdosova, Slovakian/Australian tennis player |
| 26th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Lee Rose, American/New Zealand actress |
| 26th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kimber James, American pornographic actress |
| 26th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Daesung, Korean singer (Big Bang) |
| 26th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Hope, English actress and singer |
| 26th of April 1192 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (Born 1127) |
| 26th of April 1444 | DEATH | Robert Campin, Flemish painter (Born 1378) |
| 26th of April 1476 | DEATH | Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (Born 1453) |
| 26th of April 1478 | DEATH | Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (Born 1453) |
| 26th of April 1489 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (Born 1465) |
| 26th of April 1716 | DEATH | John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (Born 1651) |
| 26th of April 1784 | DEATH | Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (Born 1718) |
| 26th of April 1789 | DEATH | Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (Born 1721) |
| 26th of April 1852 | DEATH | Charles Athanase Walckenaer, French naturalist (Born 25 December 1771) |
| 26th of April 1865 | DEATH | John Wilkes Booth, American assassin (Born 1838) |
| 26th of April 1881 | DEATH | Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (Born 1815) |
| 26th of April 1892 | DEATH | Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (Born 1791) |
| 26th of April 1910 | DEATH | Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (Born 1832) |
| 26th of April 1915 | DEATH | John Bunny, silent film comedian (Born 1863) |
| 26th of April 1920 | DEATH | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (Born 1887) |
| 26th of April 1932 | DEATH | William Lockwood, British cricketer (Born 1868) |
| 26th of April 1936 | DEATH | Tammany Young, American actor (Born 1886) |
| 26th of April 1938 | DEATH | Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (Born 1859) |
| 26th of April 1940 | DEATH | Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1874) |
| 26th of April 1944 | DEATH | Violette Morris, French athlete (Born 1893) |
| 26th of April 1945 | DEATH | Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (Born 1871) |
| 26th of April 1945 | DEATH | Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (Born 1909) |
| 26th of April 1946 | DEATH | Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (Born 1882) |
| 26th of April 1950 | DEATH | G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (Born 1881) |
| 26th of April 1951 | DEATH | Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (Born 1868) |
| 26th of April 1956 | DEATH | Edward Arnold, American actor (Born 1890) |
| 26th of April 1957 | DEATH | Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (Born 1868) |
| 26th of April 1964 | DEATH | E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (Born 1882) |
| 26th of April 1968 | DEATH | John Heartfield, German artist (Born 1891) |
| 26th of April 1969 | DEATH | Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (Born 1883) |
| 26th of April 1970 | DEATH | Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (Born 1911) |
| 26th of April 1970 | DEATH | Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (Born 1886) |
| 26th of April 1972 | DEATH | Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (Born 1892) |
| 26th of April 1973 | DEATH | Irene Ryan, American actress (Born 1902) |
| 26th of April 1976 | DEATH | Sid James, South African : born British comedian (Born 1913) |
| 26th of April 1980 | DEATH | Cicely Courtneidge, British actress and comedian (Born 1893) |
| 26th of April 1981 | DEATH | Jim Davis, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 26th of April 1984 | DEATH | Count Basie, American musician and composer (Born 1904) |
| 26th of April 1986 | DEATH | Broderick Crawford, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 26th of April 1986 | DEATH | Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (Born 1899) |
| 26th of April 1986 | DEATH | Bessie Love, American actress (Born 1898) |
| 26th of April 1987 | DEATH | John Ernest Silkin, British politician (Born 1923) |
| 26th of April 1987 | DEATH | Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (Born 1922) |
| 26th of April 1989 | DEATH | Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (Born 1911) |
| 26th of April 1991 | DEATH | Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (Born 1904) |
| 26th of April 1991 | DEATH | Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor, father of Francis Ford Coppola(Born 1910) |
| 26th of April 1991 | DEATH | Emily McLaughlin, American actress (Born 1928) |
| 26th of April 1991 | DEATH | Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (Born 1931) |
| 26th of April 1994 | DEATH | Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (Born 1927) |
| 26th of April 1996 | DEATH | Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (Born 1918) |
| 26th of April 1999 | DEATH | Jill Dando, British television presenter (Born 1961) |
| 26th of April 1999 | DEATH | Adrian Borland, British musician (The Sound) (Born 1957) |
| 26th of April 2002 | DEATH | Robert Steinhauser German spree killer (Born 1983) |
| 26th of April 2003 | DEATH | Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (Born 1930) |
| 26th of April 2003 | DEATH | Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (Born 1904) |
| 26th of April 2003 | DEATH | Peter Stone, American writer (Born 1930) |
| 26th of April 2004 | DEATH | Hubert Selby Jr., American author (Born 1928) |
| 26th of April 2005 | DEATH | Mason Adams, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 26th of April 2005 | DEATH | Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (Born 1926) |
| 26th of April 2005 | DEATH | Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (Born 1917) |
| 26th of April 2007 | DEATH | Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (Born 1921) |
| 26th of April 2009 | DEATH | Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (Born 1920) |
| 26th of April 2010 | DEATH | Urs Felber, Swiss industrialist (Born 1942) |