Births on 26 April
2000s
Alex Sarr
2005
French basketball player (born 2005)
Thiago Almada
2001
Argentine footballer (born 2001)
1900s
Kirill Kaprizov
1997
Russian ice hockey player (born 1997)
Amber Midthunder
1997
Native American actress (born 1997)
Calvin Verdonk
1997
Footballer (born 1997)
Jordan Pefok
1996
American soccer player (born 1996)
Daniil Kvyat
1994
Russian racing driver (born 1994)
Odysseas Vlachodimos
1994
Greek footballer (born 1994)
Aaron Judge
1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Delon Wright
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Peter Handscomb
1991
Australian cricketer
Isaac Liu
1991
New Zealand & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Jonathan dos Santos
1990
Mexican footballer (born 1990)
Mitch Rein
1990
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1990)
Nevin Spence
1990
Rugby player
Joey Wendle
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Melvin Ingram
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Daesung
1989
South Korean singer (born 1989)
Coke (footballer)
1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Lior Refaelov
1986
Israeli footballer (born 1986)
Yuliya Zaripova
1986
Russian middle-distance runner
John Isner
1985
American tennis player (born 1985)
José María López
1983
Argentine race car driver (born 1983)
Jessica Lynch
1983
American Army veteran, teacher and actress (born 1983)
Novlene Williams-Mills
1982
Jamaican sprinter (born 1982)
Caroline van der Leeuw
1981
Dutch pop and jazz singer
Ms. Dynamite
1981
British rapper (born 1981)
Sandra Schmitt
1981
German freestyle skier
Jordana Brewster
1980
American actress (born 1980)
Marlon King
1980
Jamaican-English footballer (born 1980)
Anna Mucha
1980
Polish actress
Channing Tatum
1980
American actor (born 1980)
Stana Katic
1978
Canadian and American actress (born 1978)
Peter Madsen (footballer)
1978
Danish footballer (born 1978)
Samantha Cristoforetti
1977
Italian astronaut (born 1977)
Kosuke Fukudome
1977
Japanese baseball player (born 1977)
Roxana Saberi
1977
American journalist (born 1977)
Tom Welling
1977
American actor, podcaster, director, and model (born 1977)
Václav Varaďa
1976
Czech ice hockey player
Joey Jordison
1975
American musician (1975–2021)
Rahul Verma
1975
Indian humanitarian and spiritual worker
Geoff Blum
1973
American baseball player and analyst (born 1973)
Jules and Gédéon Naudet
1973
French-American sibling filmmaker duo
Chris Perry (English footballer)
1973
English footballer and coach (born 1973)
Óscar García (footballer, born 1973)
1973
Spanish footballer and manager
Jason Bargwanna
1972
Australian motor racing driver
Kiko (footballer, born 1972)
1972
Spanish footballer
Natrone Means
1972
American football player and coach (born 1972)
Avi Nimni
1972
Israeli footballer
Naoki Tanaka (comedian)
1971
Japanese comedian (born 1971)
Jay DeMarcus
1971
American musician (born 1971)
Dean Austin
1970
English footballer (born 1970)
Melania Trump
1970
First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Kristen Ghodsee
1970
American ethnographer and professor
Tionne Watkins
1970
American singer (born 1970)
Kane (wrestler)
1967
American professional wrestler and politician (born 1967)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
1967
British actress (born 1967)
Toomas Tõniste
1967
Estonian sailor and politician
Susannah Harker
1965
English actress (born 1965)
Kevin James
1965
American comedian and actor (born 1965)
Jet Li
1963
Chinese-born martial artist and actor (born 1963)
Colin Scotts
1963
Australian gridiron football player (born 1963)
Cornelia Ullrich
1963
Bill Wennington
1963
Canadian basketball player (born 1963)
Colin Anderson (footballer)
1962
English footballer (born 1962)
Debra Wilson
1962
American actress
Joan Chen
1961
Chinese-born American actress and director
Chris Mars
1961
American painter and musician
H. G. Carrillo
1960
American writer (1960–2020)
Steve Lombardozzi
1960
American baseball player (born 1960)
Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)
1960
English drummer (born 1960)
John Corabi
1959
American singer and guitarist
Pedro Pierluisi
1959
Governor of Puerto Rico from 2021 to 2025
John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
1958
Scottish peer and racing driver (1958–2021)
Giancarlo Esposito
1958
American actor (born 1958)
Georgios Kostikos (footballer, born 1958)
1958
Greek footballer
Koo Stark
1956
American film actress and photographer (born 1956)
Kurt Bodewig
1955
German politician of the SPD
Tatjana Fomina
1954
Estonian chess player
Alan Hinkes
1954
British Himalayan mountaineer
John Battle (politician)
1951
British politician (born 1951)
Junko Ohashi
1950
Japanese singer (1950–2023)
Carlos Bianchi
1949
Argentine football player and manager
Jerry Blackwell
1949
American professional wrestler (1949-1995)
Ralph Coates
1946
English footballer (1946–2010)
Marilyn Nelson
1946
American poet, translator, and children's book author (born 1946)
Alberto Quintano
1946
Chilean footballer (born 1946)
Richard Armitage (government official)
1945
American diplomat and government official (1945–2025)
Howard Davies (director)
1945
British theatre and TV director (1945–2016)
Dick Johnson (racing driver)
1945
Australian racing driver (born 1945)
Sylvain Simard
1945
Canadian politician (born 1945)
Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
1944
Musical artist
Gary Wright
1943
American musician and composer (1943–2023)
Peter Zumthor
1943
Swiss architect (born 1943)
Svyatoslav Belza
1942
Sharon Carstairs
1942
Canadian politician and former Senator
Michael Kergin
1942
Canadian diplomat
Bobby Rydell
1942
American singer and teen idol (1942–2022)
Jadwiga Staniszkis
1942
Polish sociologist (1942–2024)
Claudine Auger
1941
French actress (1941–2019)
Giorgio Moroder
1940
Italian composer and music producer (born 1940)
Cliff Watson
1940
English international rugby league footballer
Tan Cheng Bock
1940
Singaporean politician
Duane Eddy
1938
American guitarist (1938–2024)
Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
1938
American vocal group
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
1937
French racing driver and motorcycle road racer (1937–2015)
Carol Burnett
1933
American comedian and actress (born 1933)
Al McCoy (sportscaster)
1933
American sports announcer (1933–2024)
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
1933
Puerto Rican independence activist and militant
Arno Allan Penzias
1933
American physicist (1933–2024)
Israr Ahmed
1932
Pakistani Islamic scholar (1932–2010)
Shirley Cawley
1932
British athlete (born 1932)
Frank D'Rone
1932
American jazz guitarist (1932–2013)
Francis Lai
1932
French composer (1932–2018)
Michael Smith (chemist)
1932
Canadian biochemist, businessman and Nobel Prize laureate (1932–2000)
Paul Almond
1931
Canadian director (1931–2015)
Bernie Brillstein
1931
American producer and talent agent (1931–2008)
John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria)
1931
Australian politician (1931–2019)
Roger Moens
1930
Belgian middle-distance runner
Richard Mitchell
1929
Jack Douglas (actor)
1927
English actor (1927–2008)
Anne McLaren
1927
British scientist
Harry Gallatin
1927
American basketball player and coach (1927–2015)
Granny Hamner
1927
American baseball player (1927–1993)
David Coleman
1926
British sports commentator (1926–2013)
Michael Mathias Prechtl
1926
German artist
Vladimir Boltyansky
1925
Soviet and Russian mathematician, educator, and author (1925–2019)
Gerard Cafesjian
1925
Michele Ferrero
1925
Italian entrepreneur (1925–2015)
Frank Hahn
1925
British economist (1925–2013)
Browning Ross
1924
American middle and long-distance runner, steeplechaser
James Holt (historian)
1922
English medieval historian
Jeanne Sauvé
1922
Governor General of Canada from 1984 to 1990
Margaret Scott (dancer)
1922
Australian ballerina
Jimmy Giuffre
1921
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger (1921–2008)
Fanny Blankers-Koen
1918
Dutch athlete (1918–2004)
Sal Maglie
1917
American baseball player (1917–1992)
I. M. Pei
1917
Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)
Virgil Trucks
1917
American baseball player (1917–2013)
Eyvind Earle
1916
American artist and author (1916–2000)
Ken Wallis
1916
British aviator, inventor & engineer (1916–2013)
Morris West
1916
Australian novelist and playwright
Bernard Malamud
1914
American writer (1914–1986)
James Rouse
1914
American real estate developer (1914–1996)
A. E. van Vogt
1912
Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)
Paul Verner
1911
German politician (1911–1986)
Tomoyuki Tanaka
1910
Japanese film producer (1910–1997)
Marianne Hoppe
1909
German actress (1909–2002)
Ilias Tsirimokos
1907
Greek politician
Jean Vigo
1905
French film director (1905–1934)
Paul-Émile Léger
1904
Canadian Catholic cardinal (1904–1991)
Xenophon Zolotas
1904
Greek economist (1904–2004)
Eva Aschoff
1900
German visual artist (1900–1969)
Charles Richter
1900
Seismologist and physicist (born 1900)
Hack Wilson
1900
American baseball player (1900–1948)
1800s
Oscar Rabin
1899
British bandleader (1899–1958)
Vicente Aleixandre
1898
Spanish poet (1898–1984)
John Grierson
1898
Scottish documentary filmmaker (1898–1972)
Eddie Eagan
1897
American Olympic athlete (1897–1967)
Douglas Sirk
1897
German film director (1897–1987)
Ruut Tarmo
1896
Estonian actor and stage director
Ernst Udet
1896
Luftwaffe general
Rudolf Hess
1894
German Nazi politician (1894–1987)
Anita Loos
1889
American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress, and television producer
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
Ma Rainey
1886
American blues singer (1886–1939)
Gabdulla Tukay
1886
Tatar poet (1886–1913)
Eric Campbell (actor)
1879
Scottish actor
Owen Richardson
1879
British physicist (1879–1959)
Rafael Guízar y Valencia
1878
Mexican bishop
James Dooley (New South Wales politician)
1877
Australian politician (1877–1950)
Ernst Felle
1876
German rower
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
1865
Finnish painter (1865–1931)
Edmund C. Tarbell
1862
American painter (1862–1938)
Joseph Ward
1856
Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906–1912, 1928–1930)
Charles Farrar Browne
1834
American writer
Frederick Law Olmsted
1822
American landscape architect (1822–1903)
Charles Goodyear (politician)
1804
American attorney and politician
Ambrose Dudley Mann
1801
American diplomat
Before 1800
Eugène Delacroix
1798
French painter (1798–1863)
Ludwig Uhland
1787
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
John James Audubon
1785
French-American ornithologist (1785–1851)
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily
1782
Queen of the French from 1830 to 1848
Christian Leopold von Buch
1774
German geologist (1774–1853)
Esek Hopkins
1718
Continental Navy officer and privateer (1718-1802)
Thomas Reid
1710
Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)
Adam Falckenhagen
1697
German lutenist and composer (1697–1754)
Peter II of Portugal
1648
King of Portugal from 1683 to 1706
William Ashhurst
1647
British banker, merchant and politician
Marie de' Medici
1575
Queen of France from 1600 to 1610
Gian Paolo Lomazzo
1538
Italian artist and writer (1538–1592)
John II of France
1319
King of France from 1350 to 1364
Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick
1284
English heiress
Al-Hadi
764
4th Abbasid caliph (r. 785–786)
AD 757
757
Calendar year
AD 121
121
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