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Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
Carlo Collodi
Italian writer (1826–1890)
Carl XV of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
Eugénie de Montijo
Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1870 (1826–1920)
Gustave Moreau
19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
Wilhelm Liebknecht
German journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
Walter Bagehot
British journalist, businessman, and essayist (1826-1877)
George Brinton McClellan
American soldier and politician (1826–1885)
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist (1826-1910)
Julia Grant
First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877
Alexander Afanasyev
Russian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)
Frederic Edwin Church
American landscape painter (1826–1900)
Giuseppe Zanardelli
Prime Minister of Italy (1826-1903)
Stephen Foster
American songwriter (1826-1864)
Adolf Bastian
German anthropologist (1826–1905)
Matilda Joslyn Gage
American abolitionist, writer
George Johnstone Stoney
Anglo-Irish physicist (1826-1911)
Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Baden
sixth Grand Duke of Baden from 1856 to 1907
Dinah Craik
British novelist and poet (1826–1887)
Armand David
French Catholic priest, zoologist, and botanist (1826–1900)
William Henry Waddington
19th century French statesman, Prime Minister and an Ambassador of France (1826–1894)
Ludwig Minkus
Austrian composer and violinist (1826–1917)
Giovanni Battista Donati
Italian astronomer (1826-1873)
Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro
Prince of Montenegro (1826–1860); ruled 1851–1860
Richard Christopher Carrington
British astronomer (1826-1875)
Zénobe Gramme
Belgian electrical engineer and inventor
August Ahlqvist
Finnish poet, scholar, author and literary critic (1826-1889)
Carl Gegenbaur
German scientist (1826–1903)
Karl von Piloty
German painter (1826-1886)
George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
German noble (1826–1914)
Joseph Victor von Scheffel
German poet and novelist (1826-1886)
İbrahim Şinasi
Ottoman journalist (1826-1871)
Henri Mouhot
French explorer (1826–1861)
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society (1826–1902)
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann
German physicist (1826–1899)
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia
Russian Grand duchess (1826-1845)
Princess Alexandra of Bavaria
Bavarian princess (1826–1875)
Sereno Watson
American botanist (1826-1892)
Theodoros Deligiannis
Greek politician (1820–1905)
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen
Danish chemist and scientist (1826-1909)
Romuald Traugutt
Polish general and war hero (1826-1864)
Johann Köler
Estonian artist (1826-1899)
Oscar Ferdinand Peschel
German geographer (1826–1875)
Henry Clifton Sorby
British scientist, founder of microscopical petrology and metallography (1826–1908)
Friedrich Chrysander
German musicologist and Handel scholar (1826–1901)
Emily Blackwell
English-born American physician
Marietta Alboni
Italian operatic contralto (1826-1894)
Hormuzd Rassam
Iraqi archaeologist (1826–1910)
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
German duke (1826–1908)
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg
German princess (1826-1896)
Gustave Moynier
Swiss jurist, co-founder and president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Silvestro Lega
Italian painter (1826-1895)
Franz Grashof
German engineer (1826–1893)
Varina Davis
Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States (1826–1906)
Lea Ahlborn
Swedish artist (1826–1897)
Kostandin Kristoforidhi
Albanian translator and scholar (1827–1895)
Adile Sultan
Ottoman princess (1826–1899)
John Buford
Union Army General (1826-1863)
Svetozar Miletić
Serbian politician (1826-1901)