About the day » Tuesday April 26, 1870Calender converter

• de Groot, Beerta, Groningen, Nederland († 1870)
• Antonia Bernardina Morren, Twello, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Been, Rotterdam († 1934)
• Amalia Dentice († 1962)
• Agatha Johannes HUITEMA, Wonseradeel(Friesland)
• Aloys David Clauw, Klerken († 1870)
• Marinus Ravestein, Kockengen († 1894)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Bijl, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Philomena Schuermans, Tilburg († 1958)
• Alowies Leonard Van Camp, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium

• Adriaan van Elzakker, Bergen op Zoom
• Anna Sara Salm (28), Delden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Conrad (59), Pfalzdorf, Goch, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Antonet van de Ven (66), Oss
• Angelica Vermeylen, Schelle
• Aalbert van Twillert (14), Bunschoten
• Anna Sara Salm (27), Delden,Gemeente Hof Van Twente,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Adriaan van Etten
• de Groot (0), Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Aalbert van Twillert (14)

• 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)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)

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

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
• January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
• January 26 » Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
• February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

The temperature on April 26, 1870 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.