About the day » Monday April 26, 1875Calender converter

• Braat, Haarlem († 1875)
• Adrianus Willem Johannes Kouwenberg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Abraham Vischschoonmaker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriana Johanna Moerman, Maasland († 1948)
• Amandine Dubois, Dour,, Hainaut, Belgique († 1954)
• Anna Maria Adriana JANSSEN, Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Akke Annes Silvius, Molkwerum († 1926)
• Rijpstra, Brielle († 1875)
• Adele Boyen, Goetsenhoven
• Anna Datus IMMINK, Beusichem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1939)

• Anna Angela - Anna Engel - Angela Hagen (85), Versen, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adrianus Franciscus Verswyvel (30), Geel, België
• Arie Duijvesteijn (24), Voorburg
• Antje Jansd van der Linde (66), Nieuwehorne, schoterland.fr.nld
• Anna Maria Konings (75), Megen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius van Hulst (0), Duizel en Steensel
• Antonius van Engelen (0), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Duivesteijn (24), voorburg
• Anna Maria Boon (79), Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adriana de Ruiter, Benschop

• 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)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 25 » Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
• March 15 » Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
• June 19 » The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• September 27 » The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
• October 22 » First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• December 4 » Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.

The temperature on April 26, 1875 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.