On this day | April 26th

On this day: April 26th

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1336 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.

1478 The Pazzi family Pazzi conspiracy on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano de' Medici during Solemn Mass in Florence Cathedral.

1564 Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).

1607 The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.

1721 1721 Tabriz earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.

1777 Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British Armed Forces

1794 Battle of Beaumont (1794) during the Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition of the War of the First Coalition.

1802 Napoleon signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious French emigration (1789–1815) to return to France.

1803 Thousands of L'Aigle (meteorite) from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.

1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines Battle of Derne Derna, Libya under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.

1865 Union (American Civil War) cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.

1900 1900 Hull–Ottawa fire destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.

1903 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded

1915 World War I: Kingdom of Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London (1915) pledging to join the Allies of World War I.

1916 Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge

1920 Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Olympics with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.

1923 George VI Wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.

1925 Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the 1925 German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.

1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is Bombing of Guernica by German Luftwaffe.

1942 Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.

1943 The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.

1944 Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

1944 Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in Axis occupation of Greece.

1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen (1945): Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

1945 World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

1954 The Geneva Conference (1954), an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

1954 The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.

1956 , the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal, for Houston, Texas.

1958 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's ''Royal Blue (train)'' from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use Railway electrification system.

1960 Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of First Republic of Korea.

1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

1962 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.

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.

1964 Tanganyika (1961–1964) and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

1966 The magnitude 5.1 1966 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale of VII (''Very strong''). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

1966 A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

1970 The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.

1981 Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the UCSF Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

1986 The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

1989 Daulatpur–Saturia tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

1989 ''People's Daily'' publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

1991 Tornado outbreak of April 26, 1991 break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only Fujita scale tornado.

1993 The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.

1994 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airfield in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

1994 South Africa begins its 1994 South African general election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

2002 Robert Steinhäuser Erfurt massacre at Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide.

2005 Cedar Revolution: 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).

2015 Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.

AD 121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (d. 180)

AD 757 Hisham I of Córdoba (d. 796)

764 Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (d. 786)

1284 Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (d. 1324)

1319 John II of France (d. 1364)

1538 Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (d. 1600)

1575 Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)

1647 William Ashhurst, English banker, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician (d. 1720)

1648 Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)

1697 Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (d. 1754)

1710 Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796)

1718 Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802)

1774 Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)

1782 Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (d. 1866)

1785 John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851)

1787 Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862)

1798 Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (d. 1863)

1801 Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1889)

1804 Charles Goodyear (politician), American banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 1876)

1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (d. 1903)

1834 Charles Farrar Browne, American author (d. 1867)

1856 Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)

1862 Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (d. 1938)

1865 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (d. 1931)

1876 Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959)

1877 James Dooley (Australian politician), Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1950)

1878 Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)

1879 Eric Campbell (actor), British actor (d. 1917)

1879 Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1959)

1886 Ma Rainey, American singer-songwriter (d. 1939)

1886 Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (d. 1913)

1889 Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951)

1894 Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician (d. 1987)

1896 Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)

1896 Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)

1897 Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967)

1897 Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)

1898 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1984)

1898 John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (d. 1972)

1899 Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1958)

1900 Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (d. 1969)

1900 Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)

1900 Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)

1904 Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)

1904 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)

1905 Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter (d. 1934)

1907 Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)

1909 Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)

1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)

1911 Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (d. 1986)

1912 A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (d. 2000)

1914 Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)

1914 James Rouse, American real estate developer (d. 1996)

1916 Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator (d. 2000)

1916 Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (d. 2013)

1916 Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 1999)

1917 Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (d. 1992)

1917 I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) (d. 2019)

1917 Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)

1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (d. 2004)

1921 Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)

1922 J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (d. 2014)

1922 Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (d. 1993)

1922 Margaret Scott (dancer), South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2019)

1924 Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (d. 1998)

1925 Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (d. 2019)

1925 Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)

1925 Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2015)

1925 Frank Hahn, British economist (d. 2013)

1926 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (d. 2003)

1927 Jack Douglas (actor), English actor (d. 2008)

1927 Anne McLaren, British scientist (d. 2007)

1927 Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)

1927 Granny Hamner, American baseball player (d. 1993)

1929 Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)

1930 Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster

1931 Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1931 Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (d. 2008)

1931 John Cain (junior), Australian politician, 41st Premier of Victoria (d. 2019)

1932 Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 2010)

1932 Shirley Cawley, English long jumper

1932 Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)

1932 Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (d. 2018)

1932 Michael Smith (chemist), English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 2000)

1933 Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer

1933 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (d. 2005)

1933 Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 2024)

1937 Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)

1938 Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2024)

1938 Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter

1940 Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer

1940 Cliff Watson, English rugby league player (d. 2018)

1941 Claudine Auger, French model and actress (d. 2019)

1942 Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2014)

1942 Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Representative of the Government in the Senate

1942 Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States

1942 Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor (d. 2022)

1942 Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic (d. 2024)

1943 Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2023)

1943 Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals

1944 Richard Bradshaw (conductor), English conductor (d. 2007)

1945 Howard Davies (director), English director and producer (d. 2016)

1945 Dick Johnson (racing driver), Australian racing driver

1945 Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician

1946 Ralph Coates, English international footballer (d. 2010)

1946 Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author

1946 Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer

1949 Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager

1949 Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)

1950 Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (d. 2023)

1951 John Battle (politician), English politician

1954 Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player

1954 Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer

1955 Kurt Bodewig, German politician

1956 Koo Stark, American actress and photographer

1958 John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racing driver (d. 2021)

1958 Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer

1958 Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958), Greek footballer, coach, and manager

1959 John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1959 Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican politician

1960 H. G. Carrillo, American writer and academic (d. 2020)

1960 Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach

1960 Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer), English drummer

1961 Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

1961 Chris Mars, American artist

1962 Colin Anderson (footballer), English footballer

1962 Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian

1963 Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer

1963 Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player

1963 Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler

1963 Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player

1965 Susannah Harker, English actress

1965 Kevin James, American actor and comedian

1967 Kane (wrestler), American professional wrestler, actor, businessman and politician

1967 Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress and singer-songwriter

1967 Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician

1970 Dean Austin, English footballer and manager

1970 Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th List of First Ladies of the United States

1970 Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic

1970 Tionne Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

1971 Naoki Tanaka (comedian), Japanese comedian and actor

1971 Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

1972 Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver

1972 Kiko (footballer, born 1972), Spanish footballer

1972 Natrone Means, American football player and coach

1972 Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager

1973 Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster

1973 Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer

1973 Chris Perry (English footballer), English footballer

1973 Óscar García (footballer, born 1973), Spanish footballer and coach

1975 Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (d. 2021)

1975 Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist

1976 Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player

1977 Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut

1977 Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player

1977 Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author

1977 Tom Welling, American actor

1978 Stana Katic, Canadian actress

1978 Peter Madsen (footballer), Danish footballer

1980 Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress

1980 Marlon King, English footballer

1980 Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist

1980 Channing Tatum, American actor and producer

1981 Caro Emerald, Dutch pop and jazz singer

1981 Ms. Dynamite, English rapper and producer

1981 Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000)

1982 Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter

1983 José María López, Argentinian racing driver

1983 Jessica Lynch, American soldier

1985 John Isner, American tennis player

1986 Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer

1986 Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner

1987 Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer

1989 Melvin Ingram, American football player

1989 Kang Daesung, South Korean singer

1990 Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer

1990 Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player

1990 Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012)

1990 Joey Wendle, American baseball player

1991 Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer

1991 Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player

1992 Aaron Judge, American baseball player

1992 Delon Wright, American basketball player

1994 Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver

1994 Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer

1996 Jordan Pefok, American footballer

2001 Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer

499 Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (b. 467)

645 Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (b. 560)

680 Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (b. 602)

AD 757 Pope Stephen II (b. 715)

893 Chen Jingxuan, general of the Tang dynasty

962 Adalbero I of Metz, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz

1192 Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)

1366 Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury

1392 Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (b. 1338)

1444 Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)

1478 Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1453)

1489 Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1465)

1558 Jean Fernel, French physician (b. 1497)

1686 Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)

1716 John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord Chancellor (b. 1651)

1784 Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)

1789 Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)

1809 Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)

1865 John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)

1881 Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)

1895 Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)

1910 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1832)

1915 John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)

1915 Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist (b. 1858)

1916 Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1890)

1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)

1932 Bill Lockwood (cricketer), English cricketer (b. 1868)

1934 Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)

1940 Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1874)

1944 Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)

1945 Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)

1945 Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)

1946 James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)

1950 George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)

1951 Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)

1956 Edward Arnold (actor), American actor (b. 1890)

1957 Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)

1964 E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882)

1968 John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891)

1969 Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883)

1970 Erik Bergman (Lutheran minister), Swedish minister and author (b. 1886)

1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (b. 1911)

1973 Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902)

1976 Sidney Franklin (bullfighter), American bullfighter (b. 1903)

1976 Sid James, South African-English actor (b. 1913)

1976 Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)

1980 Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (b. 1893)

1981 Jim Davis (actor), American actor (b. 1909)

1984 Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904)

1986 Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)

1986 Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)

1986 Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)

1987 Shankar Jaikishan, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922)

1987 John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1923)

1989 Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (b. 1911)

1991 Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904)

1991 Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)

1991 A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (b. 1901)

1991 Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)

1994 Mas Oyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin (b. 1923)

1996 Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)

1999 Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1957)

1999 Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (b. 1961)

2003 Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician), Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)

2003 Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)

2003 Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)

2004 Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)

2005 Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)

2005 Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1925)

2005 Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)

2005 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)

2007 Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system (b. 1921)

2008 Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (b. 1938)

2009 Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920)

2010 Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930)

2010 Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942)

2011 Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)

2012 Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938)

2013 Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930)

2013 George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)

2013 Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (b. 1948)

2014 Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936)

2014 Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927)

2014 DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (b. 1979)

2015 Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919)

2015 Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)

2016 Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)

2017 Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (b. 1944)

2022 Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (b. 1947)

2023 Jerry Apodaca, American politician, 24th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1934)

2023 Tangaraju Suppiah, Singaporean drug trafficker (b. 1977)

Chernobyl disaster related observances:

- Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus)

- Public holidays in Russia # List of other public holidays, commemorative and professional days (Russia)

Christian Calendar of saints:

- Aldobrandesca (or Alda)

- Franca Visalta

- Lucidius of Verona

- Our Lady of Good Counsel

- Pope Anacletus and Pope Marcellinus

- Rafael Arnaiz Barón

- Richarius

- Paschasius Radbertus

- Peter of Rates

- Robert Hunt (chaplain) (Episcopal Church (USA))

- Stephen of Perm, see also Old Permic alphabet

- Trudpert

- April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Confederate Memorial Day (Florida, United States)

Union Day (Tanzania)

World Intellectual Property Day

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