Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)

Name: Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)
Start: 1558

On April 26, in the year 1558, Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497). This event is recorded as a Notable Deaths event in the history of April 26, one of 377 recorded events on this date across all of history.

1 notable person is associated with this event, including Jean Fernel. Learn more below.

Jean François Fernel was a French physician who introduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function. He was the first person to describe the spinal canal. The lunar crater Fernelius is named after him.

Key Facts

This event took place on April 26, 1558 (AD era).
It is categorised as a Notable Deaths event in recorded history.
Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
1 notable person is recorded as involved in or associated with this event.
Wikipedia source last updated on 5 March 2026.

On This Date in History 377

Type	Year	Date	Event
Historical Events	2025	Apr 26	A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada
Notable Deaths	2023	Apr 26	Jerry Apodaca, American politician, 24th Governor of New Mexico (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	2023	Apr 26	Tangaraju Suppiah, Singaporean drug trafficker (born 1977)
Notable Deaths	2022	Apr 26	Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (born 1947)
Notable Deaths	2017	Apr 26	Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (born 1944)
Selected Events	2017	Apr 26	The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier
Notable Deaths	2016	Apr 26	Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (born 1937)
Historical Events	2015	Apr 26	Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97
Notable Deaths	2015	Apr 26	Jayne Meadows, American actress (born 1919)
Notable Deaths	2015	Apr 26	Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2014	Apr 26	Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (born 1936)
Notable Deaths	2014	Apr 26	Paul Robeson, Jr
Notable Deaths	2014	Apr 26	DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (born 1979)
Notable Deaths	2013	Apr 26	Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2013	Apr 26	George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)
Notable Deaths	2013	Apr 26	Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (born 1948)
Notable Deaths	2012	Apr 26	Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2011	Apr 26	Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
Notable Deaths	2010	Apr 26	Mariam A
Notable Deaths	2010	Apr 26	Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (born 1942)
Notable Deaths	2009	Apr 26	Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (born 1920)
Notable Deaths	2008	Apr 26	Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2007	Apr 26	Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (born 1921)
Selected Events	2007	Apr 26	Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tall
Historical Events	2005	Apr 26	Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebano
Notable Births	2005	Apr 26	Alex Sarr, French basketball player
Notable Deaths	2005	Apr 26	Mason Adams, American actor (born 1919)
Notable Deaths	2005	Apr 26	Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1925)
Notable Deaths	2005	Apr 26	Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (born 1926)
Notable Deaths	2005	Apr 26	Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2004	Apr 26	Hubert Selby, Jr
Notable Deaths	2003	Apr 26	Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2003	Apr 26	Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984)
Notable Deaths	2003	Apr 26	Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (born 1904)
Historical Events	2002	Apr 26	Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide
Selected Events	2002	Apr 26	An expelled student murdered sixteen people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasiu
Notable Births	2001	Apr 26	Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer
Historical Events	1999	Apr 26	Outbreak of CIH computer virus
Notable Deaths	1999	Apr 26	Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1957)
Notable Deaths	1999	Apr 26	Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (born 1961)
Selected Events	1999	Apr 26	The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars
Notable Births	1997	Apr 26	Kirill Kaprizov, Russian ice hockey player
Notable Births	1997	Apr 26	Amber Midthunder, American actress
Notable Births	1997	Apr 26	Calvin Verdonk, Indonesian footballer
Notable Births	1996	Apr 26	Jordan Pefok, American footballer
Notable Deaths	1996	Apr 26	Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
Historical Events	1994	Apr 26	China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board
Historical Events	1994	Apr 26	South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress
Notable Births	1994	Apr 26	Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver
Notable Births	1994	Apr 26	Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer