26 April in Hindu history
26 April 185826 April 1920
Kunwar Singh dies at Jagdishpur
The eighty-year-old zamindar of Jagdishpur who led the rising in Bihar wins his last fight and dies at home days later. Wounded in the arm while crossing the Ganga, he is said to have cut it off and offered it to the river.
Ramanujan dies at Kumbakonam
Srinivasa Ramanujan dies at thirty-two, a year after returning from Cambridge, where he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His notebooks are still yielding results.