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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_4241” align=“alignright” width=“151”]
John Adams (1735-1826)[/caption]
In the year 1826, The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication (Jan 15), internal combustion engine is patented (Apr 1), former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson (born 1743, 3usp) and John Adams (born 1735, 2usp) both die, on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence (Jul 4), American settlers in Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico (Dec 21) - and all these fine people were born:
1826-0101 Pentti Hirvonen* folklorist - Rääkkylä, GD of Finland (1878/52) 1826-0115 Marie Pasteur* chemist/co-worker of her spouse - Clermont-Ferrand, France (1910/84) 1826-1118 Joseph Trutch* British-Canadian engineer/surveyor/first Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia - Ashcott, England (1904/78) 1826-0126 Louis Favre* engineer - Chêne, Switzerland (1879/53) 1826-0126 Garrett D Van Reipen* businessman/Mayor of Hudson City - Bergen (Jersey City), NJ USA (1902/76) 1826-0216 Hans J. Thomsen* chemist - Copenhagen, Denmark (1909/82) 1826-0218 Lea Ahlborn* (b Lundgren) Swedish artist/medallist - Stockholm, Sweden-Norway (1897/71) 1826-0226 George Bangs* publisher/postmaster - Milan, OH USA (1877/51) 1826-0309 Jacob Haish* carpenter/architect/barbed wire manufacturer - Germany (1926/99) 1826-0324 Matilda Joslyn Gage* freethinker/author/ the eponym for the Matilda Effect - Cicero, NY USA (1898/71) 1826-0406 Gustave Moreau* painter - Paris, France (1898/72) 1826-0417 Robert Mellin* priest/translator - Ristijärvi, GD of Finland (1880/53) 1826-0503 Charles XV of Sweden* King of Sweden and Norway - Stockholm, Sweden (1872/46) 1826-0504 Frederic Edwin Church* landscape painter - Hartford, CT USA (1900/73) 1826-0505 Empress Eugenie* of France - Granada, Spain (1920/94) 1826-0526 Richard Carrington* amateur astronomer - Chelsea, London, England (1875/49) 1826-0615 Albert Werner Nykopp* banker/senator - Juva, GD of Finland (1882/55) 1826-0624 George Goyder* surveyor in the Colony of South Australia - Liverpool, England (1898/72) 1826-0624 Theodore Fitz Randolph* businessman/ politician/inventor - Mansfield, PA USA (1883/57) 1826-0626 Adolf Bastian* polymath (ethnography/anthropology/ psychology) - Bremen, German Confederation (1905/78) 1826-0704 Stephen Foster* songwriter - Lawrenceville, PA USA (1864/37) 1826-0713 Stanislao Cannizzaro* chemist - Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1910/83) 1826-0720 1826-0731 Juhani Aataminpoika* horse thief/serial killer - Vesivehmaa, GD of Finland (1854/28) 1826-0731 William S. Clark* chemist/agricultural educator/pioneering in Hokkaido, Japan - Ashfield, MA USA (1886/59) 1826-0807 August Ahlqvist* author/literary critic - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1889/63) 1826-0904 Petter Wilhelm Aurén* surveyor/writer - Nilsiä, GD of Finland (1896/69) 1826-0917 Bernhard Riemann* mathematician - Breselenz, Kingdom of Hanover (1866/39) 1826-1008 Emily Blackwell* physician/to U.S. at age 5 - Bristol, England (1910/83) 1826-1113 Vivika Ekman* pianist/music teacher - Dragsfjärd, GD of Finland (1911/85) 1826-1124 Carlo Collodi* (b Lorenzini) writer/humorist/journalist - Florence, GD of Tuscany (1890/63) 1826-1208 Friedrich Siemens* entrepreneur/ inventor/brother of Werner von Siemens - Menzendorf, German Confederation (1904/77) 1826-1216 Giovanni Donati* astronomer - Pisa, Italy (1873/46) Updated 7.8.2022-1 Search for another year here