About the day » Wednesday February 26, 1913Calender converter

• Albert Dost, Kiel, Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland († 1914)
• abraham pieter judels, delft († 1942)
• Alfonsin Castermans, Bilzen († 2001)
• Agatha de Wolf, Beemster
• Agatha de Wolf, Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1980)
• Aaltje Wijbenga, Hallum († 1997)
• Albertus Radstake, Doetinchem († 1966)
• Adriana Groffen, Bergen op Zoom († 1999)
• Abraham Pieter Judels, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana Weeland, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1913)

• Anna van der Aar (79), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Koning (57), Oldemarkt
• Agatha Johanna Suiker (0), Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Antje van Gelderen (86), Ljouwert (Leeuwarden), Fryslân, Nederland
• Nn Pol (0), Hoogeveen
• Antje van Gelderen (86)
• Adriana Cornelia van Ginneken (59), Etten-Leur
• Aafje PLANTING (11), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• arie pieters LOUTER (85), heinenoord
• Anna Maria Verbeten (42), Sambeek

• 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)
• 1911 » Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor († 1996)
• 1912 » Dane Clark, American actor and director († 1998)
• 1913 » George Barker, English author and poet († 1991)
• 1914 » Robert Alda, American actor, singer, and director († 1986)
• 1916 » Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer († 1987)

• 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. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
• February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
• February 13 » The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
• March 22 » Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
• October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
• December 21 » Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

The temperature on February 26, 1913 was between -2.5 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.