Famous Personalities Born In April - 26
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
1319 On April - 26 birth of jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)
1538 On this day in history birth of giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
1564 On April - 26 birth of william Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet)
1567 On April - 26 birth of nicolas Forme, composer
1573 On this day in history birth of marie de'Medici, Queen of France
1603 On April - 26 birth of francesco Nigetti, composer
1637 Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized was born on April - 26.
1648 On this day in history birth of pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)
1662 Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689) was born on this day in history.
1710 Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796) was born on this day in history.
1711 On April - 26 birth of david Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 On April - 26 birth of esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1726 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter was born on this day in history.
1774 Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853) was born on April - 26.
1776 On April - 26 birth of joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1782 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria was born on April - 26.
1785 On April - 26 birth of john James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1787 On this day in history birth of ludwig Uhland, writer
1796 On this day in history birth of auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
1798 Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal) was born on April - 26.
1798 James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867) was born on this day in history.
1801 On April - 26 birth of ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
1804 Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876) was born on this day in history.
1806 On this day in history birth of ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
1808 Martha Finley, children's book author was born on this day in history.
1812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant was born on April - 26.
1820 Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) was born on this day in history.
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park) was born on April - 26.
1822 Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist was born on April - 26.
1826 George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863) was born on this day in history.
1826 On April - 26 birth of ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
1827 On this day in history birth of charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 On this day in history birth of artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
1834 Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer was born on this day in history.