About the day » Monday April 26, 1897Calender converter

• Aaltje Geertruida MIDDELKOOP, Noordeloos († 1926)
• Alberdina Weteringe, Ambt Ommen,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Visser
• Alida Geertruida Haller, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1898)
• Adriana ROVERS, Lierop, 3922, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1963)
• Aaltjen Tempelman, Harfsen († 1956)
• Adriana Johanna van Nunen, Culemborg
• Aleida Maria Velthuijsen, Doesburg († 1957)
• Adriana Verschoor, Hellevoetsluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatta Johanna van Hoewijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1915)

• Aaltje Kroezen (0), Zwolle {OV}
• Anna Toonen (2), Wijchen
• Anania ARINK (3), Nieuwer Amstel
• Aagje LANGEWIS (84), Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Arijansd de Boer (79), Landsmeer, Gemeente Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, NEDERLAND
• aafje de boer (79), Landsmeer
• Aaltje Dul (74), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Daniël van Riemsdijk (59), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Anders Eriksen Kringen (77)
• Alberta Boerboom (80), Westervoort

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Hendrika
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Petronella
13. Jacoba
14. Grietje
15. Geertruida
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
• August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
• December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

The temperature on April 26, 1897 was about 12.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.