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• * Levenloos geboren kind Siep, Renkum, Gelderland, NL († 1861)
• Abraham Frans Gips, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Abeldina Akkerman, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Afke Jacobs Veldman, Terhorne, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1869)
• Abraham Silber, Kepno, Wlkp., Poland († 1940)
• Amadeus Leo Verbrugge, Kruishoutem, Belgium
• Anna Valkeners, Hasselt, 3500, België
• Akke van Dijk, Hijum, Friesland, Nederland († 1922)
• Aaltje Westerhuis, Westerlee, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands († 1929)
• Akke Sjirksd Cnossen († 1923)

• Albert Geerts Alberts (67), Steenwijk
• Adriana Kuijpers (70)
• Berber Feikes Otter (7), Lemsterland
• Berend Roelfs Weering, Roderwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• ?? de Joode (0), (GL) Herwijnen
• Albertus Stevens (73), Ommerschans
• Anne de Jong (2), Barradeel
• * Levenloos geboren kind Siep (0), Renkum, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Maria Catharina Barbara Castro (1), Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België
• Antonius Blankespoor (14), Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1834 » Charles Farrar Browne, American author († 1867)
• 1856 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)
• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)

• 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 laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• April 17 » The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
• June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
• July 25 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
• November 7 » The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
• November 21 » American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.
• December 4 » The 109 Electors of the several states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President.

The temperature on April 26, 1861 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 9.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.