About the day » Thursday January 21, 1926Calender converter

• Alceu Menezes, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brasil († 1926)
• Cornelia Jacomina Meijer, 's Gravenhage († 1973)
• Christa BISCHOFF, Vaals († 2003)
• "Ghislaine" Marie Jeanne Germaine de Laage de Meux, Paris († 2003)
• Armando Hélio de Abreu, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2012)
• Anne BRUNIA, Emmen Drenthe Netherlands († 1979)
• Arie van der Ende, Monster († 1992)
• Betty Swart († 2016)
• Aaltje Zomers, Klijndijk, Odoorn († 2003)
• Bart Al, ,, den Haag, Nederland († 2006)

• Adriana van Luijk (35), Rotterdam
• Albert Mulder (50), Westwoud
• van de Pol (0), Kesteren
• Anna Maria De Peuter (92), Lier, België
• Abraham Harder (4), Hilversum
• Arij Qualm (77), Nieuwenhoorn
• Albert Jelles Mulder (50), Westwoud
• Anna Mathilda Antonia Maria Nefkens (29), Blerick
• Anna Adriana Cornelia Huijbregts (1), Alphen en Riel
• Antonia Franssen (1), Dodewaard

• 1925 » Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer († 2014)
• 1925 » Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager († 2007)
• 1925 » Charles Aidman, American actor († 1993)
• 1925 » Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author († 2010)
• 1926 » Clive Donner, British director († 2010)
• 1926 » Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer († 1980)
• 1926 » Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon († 2010)
• 1926 » Roger Taillibert, French architect († 2019)
• 1926 » Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder († 2000)
• 1927 » Rudolf Kraus, German footballer († 2003)

• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)
• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1898)

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

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

• 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 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
• January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
• January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
• May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

The temperature on January 21, 1926 was between -2.1 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.