About the day » Thursday April 26, 1900Calender converter

• Adeline Grace Phillips, Peterborough, 1654329, Ontario, Canada († 1973)
• aantje VALK, hendrik ido ambcht († 1972)
• Anna Cornelia de Geest, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1994)
• Abraham de Smidt, Axel (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1900)
• Alida Clara Felix, Leiden
• Adriana Petronella Johanna Kivits, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Amo van Ham, Usquert († 1960)
• Bakker, Weststellingwerf
• Ame Van Ham, Usquert,, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gesina Schoemaker, Maten, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1916)

• Adelaida Maria Francisca Dossche (73), Hoofdplaat, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Helena Maria Anna van der Kruijk (32), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoine Hubert Daenen (62), Liège,, Luik, België
• Adriana van Bavel (75), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berber Catharina Eldering (0), Leeuwarden
• Arie Verboom (50), Numansdorp, Cromstrijen, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Catharina Maria Oudendijk (3), Haarlem
• Anna Catharina Mutsaerts (48), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Antje Schipper (6), Scheemda
• Antoon Lochtens (58), Wanroij

• 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)
• 1900 » Hack Wilson, American baseball player († 1948)

• 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. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Hendrikus

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
• July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
• October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
• October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

The temperature on April 26, 1900 was about 4.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.