1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
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January 12 - William Chapman Rawlston , banker and financier
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January 26 - Louis Favre , engineer Gotthard tunnel (d. 1879)
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February 16 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, poet (d. 1886)
- February 16 - Julia Grant, First Lady, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (d. 1902)
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March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, journalist and politician (d. 1900)
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May 3 - King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway
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May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church, painter
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July 4 - Stephen Foster songwriter and poet, (d. 1864)
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November 13 - Charles Frederick Worth couturier (d. 1895)
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November 24 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, the creator of Pinocchio
Deaths