About the day » Tuesday April 26, 1791Calender converter

• Berendina ten Arve, Ruurlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalt Eibrink, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Vlink
• Aalt Harmse Eibrink, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1876)
• Aalt Eijbrink, Oldebroek († 1876)
• Anna Maria Colsters, Middelbeers
• Anna Paulina Van Aken, Boom († 1836)
• Adrianus van de Leest, Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bauke Baukes Zwanenburg, Holwerd, Westdongeradeel, FRI, Nederland († 1814)
• Aalt Harms Eibrink, Oldebroek, Gld. Nederland († 1876)

• Antonia Verbeke (77), Eernegem,8480,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Hermannus Swering (74), Losser
• Jan Haak (0), Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Chretien Medaerts (67), Gelinden, België
• Fran√ßois Joseph HIRTH (56), Burnhaupt-le-Bas (68520, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Anthonij Wijk, van (36), Vlaardingen
• Janna Stevens Haerbrink (65), Deventer
• Jannetje Ruigrok (35), Noordwijk
• Adriana Bonte, Zaamslag
• Hendrik Momberg

• 1774 » Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist († 1853)
• 1782 » Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily († 1866)
• 1785 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter († 1851)
• 1787 » Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian († 1862)
• 1798 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer († 1863)
• 1801 » Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State († 1889)
• 1804 » Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician († 1876)
• 1822 » Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park († 1903)
• 1834 » Charles Farrar Browne, American author († 1867)
• 1856 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)

• 1686 » Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)
• 1716 » John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (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 laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
• July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
• August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
• August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
• September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

The temperature on April 26, 1791 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.