* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.

* Haliotis roei Gray, 1826 – the Roe's abalone

* Haliotis squamosa Gray, 1826 – the squamose abalone

* 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist ( d. 1903 )

It has been edited by G. Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi ( Hanover and Berlin, 1826 – 1892 ).

* 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman ( b. 1826 )

Andreas Aagesen ( 5 August 1826 – 26 October 1879 ) was a Danish jurist.

* 1826 – The 10, 500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

* Achille Zo ( 1826 – 1901 ), painter

#*** Alexandrine Gertrude Zénaïde Bonaparte ( 1826 – 1828 )

** João VI ( 1816 – 1826 )

** Maria II ( 1826 – 1853 )

* Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.

* 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.

* 1760 – Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and music educator ( d. 1826 )

* 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.

Category: UK MPs 1820 – 1826

* January 13 – Stephen Foster, American composer ( b. 1826 )

Henry John Stephen Smith ( 2 November 1826 Dublin, Ireland – 9 February 1883 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith – Minkowski – Siegel mass formula in number theory.

Originally known as Ferndale, the town was located on tracts of land originally settled by Giles Windsor ( 1767 ), Stephen Snyder ( 1786 ) and Jacob Yundt ( 1826 ).

Stephen Collins Foster ( July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864 ), known as the " father of American music ," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century.

* Stephen Foster ( 1826 – 1864 ), known as the " Father of American music "

" Beautiful Dreamer " is a parlor song by Stephen Foster ( 1826 – 1864 ).

His interest in Texas extended back almost ten years, as in 1826 he noted in his journal that Stephen F. Austin had received a land grant and that Mexico was quickly being settled.

In 1826, he moved to Stephen F. Austin's colony in Mexican Texas.

* Stephen Foster ( 1826 – 1864 ), songwriter

* Henry John Stephen Smith ( 1826 – 1883 ), Irish mathematician

Stephen Garvin VC ( 1826 – 23 November 1874 ), born in Cashel, County Tipperary, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

* Stephen Garvin ( 1826 – 1874 ), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross

Stephen Mack ( June 15, 1766-November 11, 1826 ) was a merchant and politician.

Susanna " is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster ( 1826 – 1864 ), first published in 1848.

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races ( popularly known as Camptown Races ) is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster ( 1826 – 1864 ).

* January 13-Stephen Foster, songwriter ( b. 1826 ) ( domestic accident )

Foster was born in 1826 to a farming family in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.