About the day » Friday April 26, 1895Calender converter

• Alicia Delaunois, Pâturages, Colfontaine, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adolfo Back, São Martinho, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1972)
• Anna Jacoba Prior, IJsselmonde († 1896)
• Adriana Cornelia van Dam, Vreeswijk
• Adriana Kraak, Zuid Beijerland († 1944)
• Anneke Ruurds de Bruin, Zwaagwesteinde († 1959)
• Anna Catharina Maria van Veen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1896)
• Alfons Stevens, Temse († 1896)
• Albert Edwin Bennett, Wayne County, Georgia († 1978)
• Anna Maria Philomena van de Laar, Ohé en Laak

• Albert Friedrich Jeffers (20)
• Alfred Georg Johan Herman Graaf van Bredow (58), Klessen, Brandenburg
• Anna Catharina Schillemans (77), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan van Dooremaal (94), Oosterhout
• Aaltien Hendriks Linde (78), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Goes (87), Everdingen, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Maria PEEMAN (73), Amsterdam
• Albert Brink (50)
• Woudenberg (0), Nijkerk
• Agnes Neale (88)

• 1894 » Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician († 1987)
• 1896 » Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot († 1941)
• 1896 » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director († 1967)
• 1897 » Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1897 » Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder († 1967)
• 1898 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer († 1972)
• 1898 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1899 » Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader († 1958)
• 1900 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist († 1985)
• 1900 » Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher († 1969)

• 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)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
• April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
• June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
• August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.

The temperature on April 26, 1895 was about 14.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.