Editing April 26 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[William Ashhurst]], English banker, [[Sheriff of London]], [[Lord Mayor of London]] and politician (d. 1720)
*[[1648]] &ndash; [[Peter II of Portugal]] (d. 1706)<ref>{{cite book|author=S. C.|title=A Trip to Portugal; or, a View of their strength by sea and land ... with the names of their regimental officers, the situation of their frontier towns, and the true prospect of their fortifications. To which is added, a catalogue of their kings ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVxZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA71|year=1704|publisher=[[John Nutt (printer)|John Nutt]]|pages=71–}}</ref>
*[[1697]] &ndash; [[Adam Falckenhagen]], German [[lute]] player and composer (d. 1754)
*[[1710]] &ndash; [[Thomas Reid]], Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796)
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Esek Hopkins]], American commander (d. 1802)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Christian Leopold von Buch]], German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily]], Queen of France (d. 1866)<ref>{{cite web |title=Marie-Amélie de Bourbon {{!}} queen of France {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Amelie-de-Bourbon |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=6 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1785]] &ndash; [[John James Audubon]], French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851)<ref>{{cite book|author=Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|title=Boys' Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sv8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30|date=June 1994|publisher=Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|pages=30}}</ref>
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Uhland]], German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862)
*[[1798]] &ndash; [[Eugène Delacroix]], French painter and lithographer (d. 1863)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gilles Néret|author2=Eugène Delacroix|title=Delacroix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=510NakxgJ5EC&pg=PA90|year=2000|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-5988-9|pages=90}}</ref>
*[[1801]] &ndash; [[Ambrose Dudley Mann]], American politician and diplomat, 1st [[United States Assistant Secretary of State]] (d. 1889)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Charles Goodyear (politician)|Charles Goodyear]], American banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 1876)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], American journalist and designer, co-designed [[Central Park]] (d. 1903)
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Charles Farrar Browne]], American author (d. 1867)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Joseph Ward]], Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. 1930)
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Edmund C. Tarbell]], American painter and educator (d. 1938)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela]], Finnish artist (d. 1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://finland.fi/arts-culture/an-artists-mark-on-the-story-of-finland/|title=An artist's mark on the story of Finland (150th anniversary of Gallen-Kallela's birth)|first=James|last=O’Sullivan|website=thisisFINLAND|date=April 26, 2015|access-date=April 26, 2022}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Ernst Felle]], German rower (d. 1959)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[James Dooley (New South Wales politician)|James Dooley]], Irish-Australian politician, 21st [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1950)
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Rafael Guízar y Valencia]], Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Eric Campbell (actor)|Eric Campbell]], British actor (d. 1917)
*  1879   &ndash; [[Owen Willans Richardson]], English physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1959)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Ma Rainey]], American singer-songwriter (d. 1939)
*  1886   &ndash; [[Ğabdulla Tuqay]], Russian poet and publicist (d. 1913)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Anita Loos]], American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
*  1889   &ndash; [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Hess]], German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941  (d. 1987)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Ruut Tarmo]], Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)
*  1896   &ndash; [[Ernst Udet]], leading German fighter pilot in World War I and Chief of Procurement and Supply in the Luftwaffe  (d. 1941)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Eddie Eagan]], American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Douglas Sirk]], German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish poet and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1984)
*  1898   &ndash; [[John Grierson]], Scottish director and producer (d. 1972)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Oscar Rabin]], Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1958)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Eva Aschoff]], German bookbinder and calligrapher (d. 1969)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff|title=German graphic designers during the Hitler period: Eva Aschoff|last=Cinamon|first=Gerald|website=www.germandesigners.net|access-date=2017-10-25|archive-date=2020-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821093240/http://www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*  1900   &ndash; [[Charles Francis Richter]], American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Hack Wilson]], American baseball player (d. 1948)