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• Albertus Johannes Paulus Calame, Rotterdam († 1906)
• Agatha Petronella Tesselaar, Mijdrecht († 1998)
• Abeltje van der Laan, Meeden, Groningen, The Netherlands († 1972)
• Aloysius Johannes Maria VINGERHOED, Amsterdam († 1962)
• Aart DE WAAL, Amersfoort († 1958)
• Aaron Franklin Speegle, Cullman County, Alabama († 1987)
• Alida Johanna Engelina Geitz, Ter Apelkanaal († 1987)
• Hunze, Hoogeveen
• Albertus Hendrikus van Dissel, Kediri.NOI († 1969)
• Aaltje Jeuring, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1907)

• Angeline Vandenperre (92), Geel-Larum, Antwerpen, BelgiÁe
• Alexander Serge Prins Radziwill (54), Wenen
• Alida Maria Gesina Geistdorfer (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje WITVLIET (71)
• Adriaantje Witvliet (71), Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Joseph Wolfs (73), Kerkrade (L
• Aaltje Knapper (67), Leeuwaarderadeel
• Andreas Sophius Nieuwburg (65), Enschede
• Anna Maria Berkien (8), Doornik
• Adriana Overeinder (75), Rockanje, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1902 » Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit († 1991)
• 1903 » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1903 » Orde Wingate, English general († 1944)
• 1906 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress († 1987)
• 1908 » Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver († 1949)
• 1908 » Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist († 1971)
• 1908 » Tex Avery, American animator, producer, and voice actor († 1980)
• 1909 » Fanny Cradock, English chef, author, and critic († 1994)
• 1909 » Talal of Jordan († 1972)
• 1910 » Vic Woodley, English footballer († 1978)

• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1936 » February 26 Incident:

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Dirk
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Jantje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
• April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
• April 22 » The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
• December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

The temperature on February 26, 1906 was between 0.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.