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Today in History for April 26

On this day in 2019

  • ALBUMS
  • Peter Doherty & the Puta Madres was released by Peter Doherty & the Puta Madres. The debut full-length release for Doherty's latest band was recorded live near a fishing village in France over four days and was produced by Jai Stanley.
  • Seeing Other People was released by Foxygen. The fifth full-length release for Jonathan Rado and Sam France was self-produced and mixed by Shawn Everett.

On this day in 2002

  • BIRTHS
  • Boubacar Diakhaby, Soccer Player, born in France.

On this day in 2001

  • BIRTHS
  • Mohamed Cissé, Soccer Player, born in France.

On this day in 1999

  • BIRTHS
  • Sundy Jules, YouTube Star, born in France.

On this day in 1997

  • BIRTHS
  • Guillaume Beghin, Soccer Player, born in France.

On this day in 1996

  • BIRTHS
  • Laurine Lecavelier, French figure skater, Enghien-les-Bains, born in France.
  • Theoson Siebatcheu, French association football player, Washington, D.C., born in France.

On this day in 1995

  • BIRTHS
  • Rémi Walter, Soccer Player, born in France.
  • Rodrigue Neti, French rugby player, Nouméa, born in France.
  • Dylan Saint-Louis, French association football player, France, born in France.
  • Christian M'billi, French boxer, Yaoundé, born in France.
  • Adam Moundir,, Saint-Louis, born in France.

On this day in 1994

  • BIRTHS
  • Chilla, Rapper, born in France.
  • Ibou Cissé, French association football player, Massy, born in France.
  • Melanie Trindade, Reality Star, born in France.
  • Redouane Kerrouche, French association football player, Noisy-le-Sec, born in France.

On this day in 1993

  • BIRTHS
  • Ruben Aguilar, French association football player, Grenoble, born in France.
  • Franck Héry, Soccer Player, born in France.

On this day in 1992

  • BIRTHS
  • Hatik, Rapper, born in France.
  • Wilfried Ebane, French association football player, Libreville, born in France.

On this day in 1991

  • BIRTHS
  • Benjamin Lecomte, Soccer Player, born in France.

On this day in 1990

  • BIRTHS
  • Amine Lecomte, Footballer, Reims, born in France.
  • Hicham Benkaid, Soccer Player, born in France.

On this day in 1988

  • BIRTHS
  • Hamid Oualich, French athlete, Ouarzazate, born in France.
  • Nobel Boungou Colo, French basketball player, Brazzaville, born in France.
  • Bakary Sako, association football player, Ivry-sur-Seine, born in France.
  • Romain Girouille, French archer, Saint-Doulchard, born in France.

On this day in 1987

  • BIRTHS
  • Antonin Manavian, French ice hockey player, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1986

  • EVENTS
  • France performs nuclear test.

On this day in 1985

  • BIRTHS
  • Francesco Battaglia, Soccer Player, born in Italy.

On this day in 1984

  • BIRTHS
  • Perrig Quéméneur, French road bicycle racer, Landerneau, born in France.

On this day in 1983

  • BIRTHS
  • Marco Ramos, Portuguese professional footballer, Levallois-Perret, born in France.
  • Bruno GROUGI, Soccer Player, born in France .
  • Valentine Vanesse, Blogger, born in France.

On this day in 1982

  • BIRTHS
  • Rémi Di Girolamo, French rower, Argenteuil, born in France.
  • Donatien Mortelette, French rower, Armentières, born in France.
  • Lloyd Mondory, Road bicycle racer, Cognac, born in France.

On this day in 1981

  • BIRTHS
  • Kévin Bouly, French weightlifter, Langres, born in France.
  • Mathieu DELPIERRE, Soccer Player, born in France .
  • SPORTS
  • Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer, born in Nancy, France.

On this day in 1980

  • BIRTHS
  • Laurent Ournac, French actor, Versailles, born in France.

On this day in 1979

  • BIRTHS
  • Ariane Brodier, TV Show Host, born in France.

On this day in 1978

  • EVENTS
  • France sends troops to Chad.
  • BIRTHS
  • Anna Mouglalis, French actress, Fréjus, born in France.

On this day in 1977

  • BIRTHS
  • Casey Legler, Olympic swimmer, Fréjus, born in France.
  • Dumè, French singer and comedian, Marseille, born in France.

On this day in 1976

  • BIRTHS
  • Cécile Cukierman, French politician, Bagneux, born in France.
  • Stéphane Odet, French football, Marseille, born in France.

On this day in 1975

  • BIRTHS
  • Rachid Djebaili, Algerian footballer, Besançon, born in France.
  • Sandrine Delerce, French handball player, Besançon, born in France.
  • Hervé Milazzo, Footballer, Mulhouse, born in France.

On this day in 1973

  • BIRTHS
  • Francesca Bradamante,, Palermo, born in Italy.

On this day in 1972

  • BIRTHS
  • Stéphane Cali, French sprinter, Paris, born in France.
  • Sylvain Tesson, French writer, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1970

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean-Christophe Jeauffre, French film director, France, born in France.

On this day in 1969

  • BIRTHS
  • Daniel Courcol, tennis player, Boulogne-sur-Mer, born in France.

On this day in 1968

  • BIRTHS
  • Charles Paliard, French ice dancer, Bayonne, born in France.
  • Emmanuelle Mignon, French politician, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1964

  • BIRTHS
  • Didier Robert, French politician, Saint-Pierre, born in France.
  • Arnaud De Puyfontaine, French journalist and businessman, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1961

  • BIRTHS
  • Philippe Chevallier, road bicycle racer, Annemasse, born in France.

On this day in 1960

  • BIRTHS
  • Mohamed Ezzher, athletics competitor, Khouribga, born in France.

On this day in 1957

  • BIRTHS
  • Diane Hébert, Canadian heart-lung transplant recipient, Fort Frances, born in Canada.
  • François Ravard, French film and record producer, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1956

  • BIRTHS
  • Mansour Bahrami, Iranian tennis player, Arak, born in France.
  • Patrick Chêne, French journalist, Lyon, born in France.

On this day in 1953

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean-Marc Janaillac,, Saint-Sulpice-de-Roumagnac, born in France.
  • Doug France, American football player, Dayton, born in United States.

On this day in 1949

  • BIRTHS
  • Carlos Bianchi, Argentine footballer and manager, Buenos Aires, born in France.
  • Simon Claude Mimouni, French historian scholar, Bône Department, born in France.
  • Renee Poznanski, French writer, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1948

  • BIRTHS
  • François Laroque, French Shakespearean scholar, Neuilly-sur-Seine, born in France.
  • Georges Goven, French tennis player, Lyon, born in France.

On this day in 1947

  • BIRTHS
  • Francesc Gaset Fris, Andorran sport shooter, Andorra, born in Andorra.

On this day in 1945

  • EVENTS
  • Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason.
  • BIRTHS
  • Ernest Chénière, French politician, Rivière-Salée, born in France.

On this day in 1944

  • BIRTHS
  • Jose Dolhem, Race Car Driver, born in Paris, France.
  • José Dolhem, racecar driver, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1943

  • BIRTHS
  • Nicole Loraux, French historian, Paris, born in France.
  • Yann Le Bohec, French historian and epigrapher, Carthage, born in France.

On this day in 1942

  • SPORTS
  • Claudine Auger, French actress (Thunderball) and Miss France (1958), born in Paris, France.

On this day in 1940

  • BIRTHS
  • Patrick Bricard, French actor, Caen, born in France.

On this day in 1938

  • BIRTHS
  • Leonid Plyushch, Soviet mathematician and dissident, Naryn, born in France.

On this day in 1937

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean Mailland, French poet, Aix-les-Bains, born in France.
  • Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French motorcycle racer and racing driver, Paris, born in France.
  • Ivan Renar, French politician, Mulhouse, born in France.

On this day in 1936

  • BIRTHS
  • Bernard Deconinck, cyclist, Lille, born in France.

On this day in 1935

  • BIRTHS
  • Michel Scob, cyclist, Inchy, born in France.

On this day in 1932

  • BIRTHS
  • Francis Lai, French composer, film score composer, Nice, born in France.

On this day in 1930

  • BIRTHS
  • Bernard Gérard, French composer and conductor, Mouvaux, born in France.

On this day in 1927

  • BIRTHS
  • Michel Kervaire, mathematician (1927-2007), Czestochowa, born in France.

On this day in 1924

  • BIRTHS
  • Guy Môquet, French resistance member,18th arrondissement of Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1922

  • BIRTHS
  • Roger Grava, Footballer, Claut, born in France.

On this day in 1921

  • BIRTHS
  • Francois Picard, Race Car Driver, born in Villefranche-sur-Saone, France.
  • François Picard, French racing driver, Villefranche-sur-Saône, born in France.
  • Pierre Pierlot, French musician, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1919

  • BIRTHS
  • Georges De Caunes, French broadcaster, Toulouse, born in France.

On this day in 1916

  • BIRTHS
  • Frances Robinson, American actress, Staten Island, born in United States.

On this day in 1915

  • EVENTS
  • Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia.
  • BIRTHS
  • Jean Laviron, French film director and screenwriter, Paris, born in France.
  • Joseph Zobel, Martiniquais writer, Rivière-Salée, born in France.

On this day in 1914

  • BIRTHS
  • Lilian Rolfe, Allied secret agent in World War II, Paris, born in France.
  • René Debenne, French bicycle racer, Colombes, born in France.

On this day in 1911

  • BIRTHS
  • Andrée Tainsy, Belgian actress, Etterbeek, born in France.

On this day in 1909

  • BIRTHS
  • Gerty Archimède, French politician, Morne-à-l'Eau, born in France.
  • Jean Trogneux, french businessman, Amiens, born in France.
  • René Lécuron,, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1905

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean Vigo, French actor and director (Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante), born in Paris, France (d. 1934).
  • Marie Bizet, French actress,6th arrondissement of Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1904

  • BIRTHS
  • Edgar Petersen, German bomber pilot and Knight's Cross recipient, Strasbourg, born in France.

On this day in 1903

  • BIRTHS
  • Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, French Resistance member, UN delegate, Paris, born in France.
  • Paul Wartel, Footballer, Puteaux, born in France.
  • René Charlet, French bobsledder, Orry-la-Ville, born in France.

On this day in 1900

  • BIRTHS
  • Marcel Capron, wrestler, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1898

  • BIRTHS
  • Little Sister Magdeleine Of Jesus, Foundress of the Little Sisters of Jesus, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1897

  • BIRTHS
  • Alphonse Higelin, Olympic gymnast, Mulhouse, born in France.

On this day in 1896

  • BIRTHS
  • Robert Pizani, French film and theater actor,3rd arrondissement of Paris, born in France.
  • Sébastienne Guyot, French engineer and athletics competitor, Pont-l'Abbé, born in France.

On this day in 1895

  • BIRTHS
  • Carl De La Sablière, sailor, Quimper, born in France.
  • Henry De Montherlant, French writer, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1892

  • BIRTHS
  • Adrienne Monnier, French writer and business woman, Paris, born in France.
  • Étienne Souriau, French philosopher, Lille, born in France.

On this day in 1882

  • BIRTHS
  • Édouard Cortès, French painter, Lagny-sur-Marne, born in France.

On this day in 1874

  • BIRTHS
  • Inessa Armand, French communist politician, Paris, born in France.
  • Jean Hennessy, French politician, Cherves-Richemont, born in France.

On this day in 1871

  • BIRTHS
  • Lev Conus, Russian musician, Moscow, born in France.

On this day in 1870

  • BIRTHS
  • Charles Guernier, French politician, Saint-Malo, born in France.

On this day in 1867

  • BIRTHS
  • Lucien Saint, French politician, Évreux, born in France.

On this day in 1866

  • BIRTHS
  • Henry Krauss, French actor,9th arrondissement of Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1863

  • BIRTHS
  • Émile Scaremberg, French singer, Besançon, born in France.
  • George Auriol, French musician, writer and artist, Beauvais, born in France.

On this day in 1857

  • BIRTHS
  • Émile Molinier, French art historian, Nantes, born in France.

On this day in 1856

  • BIRTHS
  • Ferdinand-Jean Darier, Dermatologist, pathologist, Budapest, born in France.

On this day in 1855

  • EVENTS
  • Composer Gioachino Rossini leaves Italy for the final time, returning to Paris, France.

On this day in 1846

  • BIRTHS
  • Auguste Edgard Dietrich, French linguist and translator, Nancy, born in France.

On this day in 1822

  • BIRTHS
  • Princess Maria Carolina Of Bourbon-Two Sicilies,, Vienna, born in France.

On this day in 1821

  • BIRTHS
  • Aimée Julie Cheron, French miniature painter, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1819

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean-Joseph Perraud, French sculptor, Monay, born in France.

On this day in 1818

  • BIRTHS
  • Gaston-Robert, Marquis De Banneville, French diplomat, Brest, born in France.

On this day in 1810

  • BIRTHS
  • Prosper Hochet, French politician, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1807

  • BIRTHS
  • Charles Auguste Frossard, French general, Versailles, born in France.

On this day in 1805

  • BIRTHS
  • Antony Rénal,, Lyon, born in France.

On this day in 1803

  • EVENTS
  • Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France.

On this day in 1802

  • BIRTHS
  • Hyacinthe Marie De Lalande De Calan, French colonial administrator and governor of French India, Quimper, born in France.

On this day in 1798

  • BIRTHS
  • Eugene Delacroix, Painter, born in France.
  • Eugène Delacroix, French painter and etcher (Journal), born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, Île-de-France, France (d. 1863).

On this day in 1795

  • BIRTHS
  • Frances Manwaring Caulkins, American historian, Minden, born in United States.
  • Auguste Mathieu Panseron, French composer, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1793

  • BIRTHS
  • Nicolas Anne Théodule Changarnier, French general, Autun, born in France.

On this day in 1785

  • BIRTHS
  • John James Audubon, American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter, Les Cayes, born in France.

On this day in 1782

  • BIRTHS
  • Maria Amalia Of Naples And Sicily, Noblewoman, Caserta, born in France.

On this day in 1780

  • BIRTHS
  • Philibert Joseph Roux, French surgeon, Auxerre, born in France.
  • Édouard De Villiers Du Terrage, French egyptologist, Versailles, born in France.

On this day in 1774

  • BIRTHS
  • Anne Jean Marie René Savary, French general, Marcq, born in France.

On this day in 1764

  • BIRTHS
  • Joseph-Jacques Ramée, French architect, Fortress of Charlemont, born in France.

On this day in 1763

  • BIRTHS
  • Antoine Ignace Melling, French painter, Karlsruhe, born in France.

On this day in 1762

  • BIRTHS
  • Pierre-Jean Garat, French singer, Bordeaux, born in France.

On this day in 1753

  • BIRTHS
  • Pierre César Charles De Sercey, French admiral, most notable for commanding French naval forces in the Indian Ocean from 1796 to 1800, Pont-Audemer, born in France.

On this day in 1740

  • BIRTHS
  • Jean-Jacques Paulet, French mycologist, Anduze, born in France.

On this day in 1729

  • BIRTHS
  • Antoine Rater, architect from France, Lyon, born in France.

On this day in 1726

  • BIRTHS
  • Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, born in Stretta di Morosaglia, France (d. 1807).

On this day in 1711

  • BIRTHS
  • Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French writer (Beauty and the Beast), born in Rouen, France (d. 1780).

On this day in 1662

  • BIRTHS
  • Marie Louise D'Orleans, Queen consort of Spain as the first wife of King Charles II of Spain, born in Palais-Royal, Paris, Kingdom of France (d. 1689).

On this day in 1661

  • BIRTHS
  • René-Joseph De Tournemine, French theologian, Rennes, born in France.

On this day in 1648

  • BIRTHS
  • Nicolas De Lamoignon, French official, Montargis, born in France.

On this day in 1640

  • BIRTHS
  • Frederick, Count Of Nassau-Weilburg, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1655-1675), Metz, born in France.

On this day in 1575

  • BIRTHS
  • Marie De' Medici, Queen of France, second wife of King Henry IV of France, Florence, born in France.

On this day in 1573

  • BIRTHS
  • Marie de'Medici, Queen of France, born in Palazzo Pitti, Florence (d. 1642).

On this day in 1567

  • BIRTHS
  • Nicolas Formé, French composer, Paris, born in France.

On this day in 1336

  • EVENTS
  • Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux.

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