Born on April 26
April 26 birthdays & history
If you were born on April 26, you share a birthday with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Eugène Delacroix and Melania Trump. April 26 babies are Taurus, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 26 is the 117th day of the year in leap years (116th in other years).
Famous people born on April 26
- 1889Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic
- 1798Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer
- 1970Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
- 1963Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
- 1917I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower
- 1898Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1879Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1785John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter
- 1980Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
What happened on April 26
- 1802Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
- 1803Thousands of meteor fragments fell over L'Aigle, France, becoming a milestone in the understanding of meteorites.
- 1903Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
- 1920Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
- 1923The Duke of York (the future King George VI) weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- 1954The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1954The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- 1956SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
- 1958Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S..
- 1962The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
- 1964Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president.
- 1970The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
Also observed on April 26
- Confederate Memorial Day (Florida, United States)
- Union Day (Tanzania)
- World Intellectual Property Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is April 26?
People born on April 26 are Taurus. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.
Which famous people were born on April 26?
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Melania Trump (1970), Jet Li (1963), I. M. Pei (1917), Vicente Aleixandre (1898) were all born on April 26.
What happened on April 26 in history?
Among other things: in 1962, The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1; in 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president; in 1970, The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
Can I get a newspaper front page from April 26?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 26 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 26”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.