About the day » Wednesday April 26, 1876Calender converter

• albert GODART, Dour (Belgium) Hainaut († 1912)
• Anna Maria Petronella Schoenmakers, Delft († 1889)
• Adrianus Keeris, Zeelst, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• Adriana Theodora Moerlands, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1876)
• Adrianus Josephus van der Avoird, Oosterhout († 1959)
• Anna Maria Jansen, Amsterdam
• Alida Rippe, Hellevoetsluis
• Broeke, ten, de Heurne gem. Aalten Gld. Nederland († 1876)
• Anna Maria Giesendorf, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1932)
• Aart Antonius Stadhouder, 's Gravenhage († 1940)

• Antonij van der Meij (82), Olst (Olst-Wijhe), Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Depaver (75), Westkapelle, WVL.BE
• Albertus Lokken (4)
• Aagje van der Vring (68), Culemborg
• Albert Elisen (73), Dieren
• Antje Kikkert (72), Oosterbeek (Gelderland)
• Antje Kikkert (72), Oosterbeek, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Broeke, ten (0), de Heurne gem. Aalten Gld. Nederland
• Alphonsus Antonius Maria Suijs (0), Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Depover (75), Westkapelle

• 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.
• January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
• February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
• November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
• November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

The temperature on April 26, 1876 was about 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.