About the day » Saturday April 26, 1873Calender converter

• Aagje Henneman, Uitgeest,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Alida Petronella Alberdina Geervliet, Rotterdam († 1932)
• Adriana de Knecht, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Henneman, Uitgeest, Nedeland († 1950)
• Adolphine Goes van Dirxland, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL († 1910)
• Anna Jacoba van Vliet, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1902)
• Andries Knol, Terschelling
• Kleinlooh, Elst († 1873)
• Anna Angela Janssen-Olliges, Neulorup, Cloppenburg, Niedersachsen, Deutschland († 1957)
• Abraham Klaas van der Linde, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)

• Aleijda Catrina Bessem, Zutphen, Gld, The Netherlands
• Anne Therese Van Moortel (77), Bekegem
• Aletta PLOMP (0), Rietveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Gurney WAKEFIELD (79), Suffolk, England
• Anna Elisabeth BLEYS (59), Arendonk,, Antwerpen, België
• Aagtje Sander (1), Godlinze,Gemeente Delfzijl,Groningen,Nederland
• Adriana Maria de Bodt (0), Roosendaal
• Arie Ariensz Gouda (41)
• Arij Kloppert (54), Geervliet, ZL, Nederland
• Anna Maria Antonia Verbert (24), Boom (B.)

• 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)
• 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)

• 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. Albert
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
• September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.

The temperature on April 26, 1873 was about 8.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.