The 116th day of the year, the 117th in a leap year
Born on 26 April
Every 26 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 26 April in any year.
Which weekday 26 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 April falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 26 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,810 babies were born on 26 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 181st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 26 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889–1951 | Austrian philosopher and logician |
| Eugène Delacroix | 1798–1863 | French painter |
| Jet Li | 1963– | Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor |
| Melania Trump | 1970– | First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025) |
| I. M. Pei | 1917–2019 | Chinese-American architect |
| Rudolf Hess | 1894–1987 | German Nazi leader and Reich Minister without Portfolio |
| Vicente Aleixandre | 1898–1984 | Spanish poet |
| Arno Allan Penzias | 1933–2024 | German-born American physicist |
| Owen Richardson | 1879–1959 | British physicist |
| John James Audubon | 1785–1851 | French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter |
| Channing Tatum | 1980– | American actor, dancer and model |
| John II of France | 1319–1364 | monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1350 until his death |
| Marie de' Medici | 1575–1642 | Queen of France; second wife of King Henry IV of France |
| Charles Richter | 1900–1985 | American seismologist |
| Ludwig Uhland | 1787–1862 | German poet and politician |
| Tom Welling | 1977– | American actor, director, and model |
| Jordana Brewster | 1980– | American actress |
| Michael Smith | 1932–2000 | Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry |
Died on 26 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 1832–1910 | Norwegian writer |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | 1887–1920 | Indian mathematician |
| Lucille Ball | 1911–1989 | American actress |
| Yun Hyon-seok | 1984–2003 | South Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist |
| Arnold Sommerfeld | 1868–1951 | German physicist |
| Carl Bosch | 1874–1940 | German chemical engineer |
| Morihei Ueshiba | 1883–1969 | Japanese martial artist, founder of aikido |
| Jonathan Demme | 1944–2017 | American filmmaker |
| John Wilkes Booth | 1838–1865 | American stage actor and assassin |
| Count Basie | 1904–1984 | American jazz musician and composer |
| Broderick Crawford | 1911–1986 | American actor |
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