| 48259 | April 26 | Death | 1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (b. 1886) |
| 48260 | April 26 | Death | 1970 – Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888) |
| 48261 | April 26 | Death | 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and playwright (b. 1911) |
| 48262 | April 26 | Death | 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902) |
| 48263 | April 26 | Death | 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903) |
| 48264 | April 26 | Death | 1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor and singer (b. 1913) |
| 48265 | April 26 | Death | 1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897) |
| 48266 | April 26 | Death | 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress and singer (b. 1893) |
| 48267 | April 26 | Death | 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909) |
| 48268 | April 26 | Death | 1981 – Herb Voland, American actor (b. 1918) |
| 48269 | April 26 | Death | 1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904) |
| 48270 | April 26 | Death | 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor and producer (b. 1911) |
| 48241 | April 26 | Death | 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) |
| 48242 | April 26 | Death | 1915 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863) |
| 48243 | April 26 | Death | 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887) |
| 48244 | April 26 | Death | 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868) |
| 48245 | April 26 | Death | 1934 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876) |
| 48246 | April 26 | Death | 1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886) |
| 48247 | April 26 | Death | 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) |
| 48248 | April 26 | Death | 1944 – Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893) |
| 48249 | April 26 | Death | 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909) |
| 48250 | April 26 | Death | 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871) |
| 48251 | April 26 | Death | 1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882) |
| 48252 | April 26 | Death | 1950 – George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881) |
| 48253 | April 26 | Death | 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868) |
| 48254 | April 26 | Death | 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor and singer (b. 1890) |
| 48255 | April 26 | Death | 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868) |
| 48256 | April 26 | Death | 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882) |
| 48257 | April 26 | Death | 1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891) |
| 48258 | April 26 | Death | 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883) |