Famous Birthdays In April - 26

1319  On April - 26 birth of jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)  

1538  On April - 26 birth of giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)  

1564  On this day in history birth of william Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet)  

1567  On April - 26 birth of nicolas Forme, composer  

1573  Marie de'Medici, Queen of France was born on this day in history.  

1603  Francesco Nigetti, composer was born on April - 26.  

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  On this day in history birth of maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)  

1710  Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796) was born on this day in history.  

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1711  David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature) was born on April - 26.  

1718  Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy) was born on April - 26.  

1726  On this day in history birth of pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter  

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  On April - 26 birth of maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria  

1785  John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist was born on April - 26.  

1787  Ludwig Uhland, writer was born on April - 26.  

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 April - 26.  

1801  On April - 26 birth of ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)  

1804  On April - 26 birth of charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)  

1806  On this day in history birth of ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer  

1808  On April - 26 birth of martha Finley, children's book author  

1812  Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant was born on this day in history.  

1820  On April - 26 birth of alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)  

1822  On April - 26 birth of frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)  

1822  On April - 26 birth of jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist  

1826  On April - 26 birth of george Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)  

1826  Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872 was born on April - 26.  

1827  Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on April - 26.  

1834  Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist was born on April - 26.  

1834  On this day in history birth of horatio Richmond Palmer, composer  

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0757  On this day in history stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies  

1192  On April - 26 death of emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)  

1196  On April - 26 alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies  

1444  On April - 26 robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65  

1476  Death of Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453) on April - 26.  

1478  On this day in history death of giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24  

1489  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)  

1558  Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies on this day in history.