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• Akke Sjirks Cnossen (Knossen), Hommerts, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1923)
• Alle Uilkesz Hoekstra
• Aaldrik van Ham, Scheemda (gem. Oldambt) († 1945)
• Adolf Eduard Henricus, Bajo
• * Levenloos geboren kind Siep, Renkum, Gelderland, NL († 1861)
• Aaltjen Brender, Bathmen († 1946)
• Adriaan de Kluijver, Oud Alblas († 1948)
• Afke Jacobs Veldman, Terhorne, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1869)
• Anna Valkeners, Hasselt, 3500, België
• Akke Pieters van Dijk, Hijum († 1922)

• Anna Cornelia de Zoete (47), Loon op Zand(NB)
• Albert Geerts (65), Steenwijk, Nederland
• Adrianus de Laat (3), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Arie Cornelisz De KONING (62), Strijen
• Arie Cornelisz de Koning (62), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Levenloos geboren kind Siep (0), Renkum, Gelderland, NL
• Antje Freerks Boonstra (62)
• Berend Roelfs Weering (71), Roderwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anne de Jong (2), Barradeel
• Antje Wiebes Veenstra (2), Noordhorn, gem. Zuidhorn, Groningen, 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.
• January 9 » American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina.
• February 13 » Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
• May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• August 5 » The United States Army abolishes flogging.
• October 17 » Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
• November 20 » American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

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%.