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• Ane Jacob Dekker, Bolsward
• Anna Cornelia Mertens, Ginneken en Bavel
• Alberta Bosveld, Rheden, Nederland
• Antonia Maria Kaskes, Wormer († 1988)
• Anne Jeroen Boekema, Wijtgaard,, Friesland, Nederland († 1985)
• Anna Appeldoorn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonia Hendrika Jansen, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hormans, Dongen († 2003)
• Pietertje De Groote, Emmen
• Adriana Hormans, Dongen († 2003)

• Adrianus Peek (83), Vianen
• Albert Tjibbes Broersma (83), Odoornerveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Annigje Oldemans (78), Hardinxveld
• Angélique Lapointe (74), Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada
• Caroline Clementine Catherine Heinkens (77), Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Carolina-Caroline STOKVISCH (68), Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Theresia LOBBESTAEL (79), Woumen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• N.N Draad, Geffen
• Carolina-Caroline Isaac Stokvisch (77), Groningen
• Catharina Wilhelmina van der Weide (16), 's-Gravenhage

• 1905 » George Bernard Flahiff, Canadian cardinal († 1989)
• 1906 » Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor († 1967)
• 1909 » Dante Quinterno, Argentinian author and illustrator († 2003)
• 1909 » Ignace Lepp, French psychologist and author († 1966)
• 1910 » John Krol, American cardinal († 1996)
• 1911 » Mahalia Jackson, American singer († 1972)
• 1911 » Sid Gillman, American football player and coach († 2003)
• 1911 » Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet and educator († 1996)
• 1912 » Don Siegel, American director and producer († 1991)
• 1913 » Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1991)

• 1890 » Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1826)
• 1896 » Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French philosopher, academic, and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1902 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)
• 1919 » Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898)
• 1929 » Swan Hennessy, Irish-American composer (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1859)

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

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

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

The temperature on October 26, 1909 was between -0.2 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.