| 48001 | April 26 | Birth | 1697 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (d. 1754) |
| 48002 | April 26 | Birth | 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796) |
| 48003 | April 26 | Birth | 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802) |
| 48004 | April 26 | Birth | 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853) |
| 48005 | April 26 | Birth | 1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1866) |
| 48006 | April 26 | Birth | 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851) |
| 48007 | April 26 | Birth | 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862) |
| 48008 | April 26 | Birth | 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (d. 1863) |
| 48009 | April 26 | Birth | 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1889) |
| 48010 | April 26 | Birth | 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 1876) |
| 48011 | April 26 | Birth | 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (d. 1903) |
| 48012 | April 26 | Birth | 1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863) |
| 48013 | April 26 | Birth | 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1872) |
| 48014 | April 26 | Birth | 1834 – Charles Farrar Browne, American author (d. 1867) |
| 48015 | April 26 | Birth | 1856 – Joseph Ward, New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930) |
| 48016 | April 26 | Birth | 1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (d. 1938) |
| 48017 | April 26 | Birth | 1876 – Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959) |
| 48018 | April 26 | Birth | 1878 – Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917) |
| 48019 | April 26 | Birth | 1878 – Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938) |
| 48020 | April 26 | Birth | 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) |
| 48021 | April 26 | Birth | 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939) |
| 48022 | April 26 | Birth | 1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (d. 1913) |
| 48023 | April 26 | Birth | 1889 – Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981) |
| 48024 | April 26 | Birth | 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951) |
| 48025 | April 26 | Birth | 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician (d. 1987) |
| 48026 | April 26 | Birth | 1896 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967) |
| 48027 | April 26 | Birth | 1896 – Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941) |
| 48028 | April 26 | Birth | 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967) |
| 48029 | April 26 | Birth | 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987) |
| 48030 | April 26 | Birth | 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |