April 26 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 26, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#234 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 26 birthdays
Frederick Law Olmsted · American landscape designer1822
Owen Richardson · British physicist1879
Ludwig Wittgenstein · Austrian philosopher and logician1889
Vicente Aleixandre · Spanish poet1898
Charles Richter · American seismologist1900
Bernard Malamud · American author1914
I. M. Pei · Chinese-American architect1917
Arno Allan Penzias · German-born American physicist1933
Carol Burnett · American actress, comedian and singer1933
Giancarlo Esposito · American actor1958
Joan Chen · Chinese-American actress and director1961
Jet Li · Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor1963
Kevin James · American comedian and actor1965
Kane · American professional wrestler, actor, and politician1967
Melania Trump · First Lady of the United States1970
Joey Jordison · American musician1975
Tom Welling · American actor, director, and model1977
Channing Tatum · American actor, dancer and model1980
Jordana Brewster · American actress1980
John Isner · American tennis player1985
On this day in history
1958Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
1999The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
2015Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
2017The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier.
1981Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1989An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests.
1991Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1994South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
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