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Born :07/08/1826Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :06/01/1826Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
Born :01/12/1826Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Born :05/03/1826Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
Born :12/18/1826Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
Born :11/24/1826Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio)
Born :05/21/1826Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
Born :05/29/1826Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
Born :05/05/1826Eug‚nie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperoress of France
Born :07/24/1826Francisco S L¢pez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
Born :08/27/1826Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Born :09/09/1826Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
Born :05/04/1826Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
Born :12/08/1826Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
Born :09/17/1826G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
Born :12/03/1826George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
Born :02/15/1826George J Stoney, Irish physicist
Born :11/30/1826George Washington Deitzler, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Born :07/04/1826Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Born :02/04/1826Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Born :01/06/1826Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Born :08/27/1826Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
Born :10/31/1826Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
Born :07/21/1826James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :12/22/1826James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
Born :11/03/1826Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Born :02/09/1826John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Born :12/05/1826John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904
Born :03/04/1826John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Born :11/17/1826John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Born :01/26/1826Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)
Born :10/13/1826Lafayette Curry Baker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :12/26/1826Martinus N˜hoff, founder N˜hoff's book/publisher (Van Dale)
Born :10/08/1826Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
Born :12/18/1826Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
Born :01/15/1826Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
Born :03/17/1826Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V”lkerkunder)
Born :04/02/1826Philip Dale Roddey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Born :01/25/1826Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch 1st Chamber member
Born :01/27/1826Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Born :11/02/1826Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
Born :07/08/1826Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :07/04/1826Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
Born :04/09/1826Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Born :09/09/1826Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
Born :05/07/1826Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
Born :02/03/1826Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
Born :10/07/1826William Brimage Bate, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
Born :08/02/1826William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
Born :11/02/1826William Haines Lytle, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Born :12/01/1826William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
Born :04/04/1826Z‚nobe Th‚ophile Gramme, inventor (electric motor)
Born :01/22/1826[Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Died :06/05/1826Carl M "von" Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies
Died :07/22/1826Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
Died :10/03/1826Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies
Died :03/10/1826Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
Died :07/04/1826John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
Died :12/07/1826John Flaxman, English sculptor (tomb at St Paul's Cathedral), dies
Died :07/25/1826Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 34
Died :02/25/1826Piotr A von de Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
Died :07/04/1826Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
Died :12/15/1826William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC
Died :03/01/1826YY Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies
Special :03/04/18261st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
Special :04/12/18261st performance of Webers opera Oberon (London)
Special :03/21/1826Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat maj (Op 130) premiers in Vienna
Special :08/19/1826Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
Special :03/14/1826General Congress of South American States assembles at Panam 
Special :10/07/1826Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
Special :02/28/1826M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
Special :04/23/1826Missolonghi captured by Turks
Special :06/10/1826Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
Special :09/03/1826USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
Special :07/26/1826Vilnus Lithuianian riots cause death of many Jews

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