Who are famous people born on April 26?

Famous people born on April 26 include David Hume (1711), John James Audubon (1785), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889).

What star sign is someone born on April 26?

Someone born on April 26 is a Taurus.

What is the birthstone for April 26?

The birthstone for April is diamond.

How common is a birthday on April 26?

In the US, April 26 is the No. 236 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,174 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).

Famous birthdays on April 26

Famous people born on April 26, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.

♉ Star sign
Taurus
💎 Birthstone
Diamond
👶 How common
No. 236 of 366

Born on April 26

David Hume
born 1711 · Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
John James Audubon
born 1785 · French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
Eugène Delacroix
born 1798 · French painter (1798–1863)
Frederick Law Olmsted
born 1822 · American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
born 1889 · Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
I. M. Pei
born 1917 · Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)
Fanny Blankers-Koen
born 1918 · Dutch track and field athlete (1918–2004)
Melania Trump
born 1970 · First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Jet Li
born 1963 · Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor
Samantha Cristoforetti
born 1977 · Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer (1977)
Daniil Kvyat
born 1994 · Russian racing car driver
Jonathan dos Santos
born 1990 · Mexican association football player
Claudine Auger
born 1941 · French actress (1941-2019)
Kamila Valieva
born 2006 · Russian figure skater (born 2006)
Dmitry Kiselyov
born 1954 · Russian television presenter
Kirill Kaprizov
born 1997 · Russian ice hockey player
Fifi Abdou
born 1953 · Egyptian actress
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Manfred Korfmann
born 1942 · Turkish-German archaeologist (1942–2005)
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Hala Fouad
born 1958 · Egyptian actress (1958–1993)
Manuel Blum
born 1938 · Venezuelan computer scientist
Giorgio Moroder
born 1940 · Italian record producer and composer (born 1940)
Peter Zumthor
born 1943 · Swiss architect
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Mamadu Ture Kuruma
born 1947 · Guinea-Bissauan military vice chief of staff and coup leader
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Issei Sagawa
born 1949 · Japanese author, murderer (1949-2022)
Carlos Bianchi
born 1949 · former Argentine footballer and manager
Ali Muhammad Mujawar
born 1953 · Yemeni politician (born 1953)
Giancarlo Esposito
born 1958 · American actor (born 1958)
Oleksandr Zavarov
born 1961 · Ukrainian footballer
Joan Chen
born 1961 · Chinese-American actress and director (born 1961)
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Byun Byung-joo
born 1961 · South Korean footballer
Héctor Enrique
born 1962 · Argentine footballer (born 1962)
Nasko Sirakov
born 1962 · Bulgarian footballer
Lee Woon-jae
born 1973 · South Korean footballer
Raphaël Wicky
born 1977 · Swiss footballer
Stana Katic
born 1978 · Canadian actress
Ferydoon Zandi
born 1979 · Iranian footballer
Jordana Brewster
born 1980 · American actress
Lior Refaelov
born 1986 · Israeli-Belgian association footballer
Bakary Sako
born 1988 · Malian-French footballer (born 1988)
Amir Reza Abedzadeh
born 1993 · Iranian footballer

April 26 in history

2025A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
2002Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.
1993The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1986The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1966A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1962The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
1954The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1944Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1937Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.
1920Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
1900Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.
1802Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1607The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1326The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil.

Holidays and observances

Chernobyl disaster related observances: Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus)
Chernobyl disaster related observances: Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia)
Christian feast day: Aldobrandesca (or Alda)
Christian feast day: Lucidius of Verona
Christian feast day: Our Lady of Good Counsel
Christian feast day: Pope Anacletus and Marcellinus
Christian feast day: Rafael Arnáiz Barón
Christian feast day: Riquier
Christian feast day: Paschasius Radbertus
Christian feast day: Robert Hunt (Episcopal Church (USA))

April 26 in every year

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Questions about April 26 birthdays

Who are famous people born on April 26?: Famous people born on April 26 include David Hume (1711), John James Audubon (1785), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889).
What star sign is someone born on April 26?: Someone born on April 26 is a Taurus.
What is the birthstone for April 26?: The birthstone for April is diamond.
How common is a birthday on April 26?: In the US, April 26 is the No. 236 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,174 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).