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• Billie Jeanette "Jean" Todd ****, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Corneille Franciscus Janssen, Amsterdam († 1993)
• Alide Langkamp, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2007)
• Cornelia Dierickx († 2005)
• Adeline Stap, Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington, 98264, VS († 2014)
• Catharina Jacomina (Ka) de Visser († 2014)
• Clementina CLOOSTERMANS, Haasdonk († 2007)
• Edward Walter Clibbon, West Ham, London. England († 1999)
• Aleene West, Horry County, SC († 1997)
• Cornelis Theresia Meester, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)

• Anna Maria de Backer (32), Tilburg
• Andrew Jackson Drennan (88), Champaign County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• arie nijs den OUDEN (64), ridderkerk
• Alwine OVERHOFF (70), Stockum (D) 70y
• Albert Gerrits Bien (72), Kampen
• Antonius Friebel (70), Nijmegen, Gld, NL
• Aaltje Kouwen (61), Noord Eschmarke, Lonneker
• Anna Maria Hermans (37), Heerlen
• Adriana Wilhelmina Frederika NIEUWPOORT (81), Utrecht
• Jacomina Solleveld (49), Hoek van Holland

• 1923 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer († 2003)
• 1924 » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director († 2005)
• 1924 » Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 » Robert Mulligan, American director and producer († 2008)
• 1926 » Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and academic († 2006)
• 1926 » Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1927 » Allan Kaprow, American painter and author († 2006)
• 1927 » Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator († 2017)
• 1927 » Martial Solal, Algerian-French pianist and composer
• 1928 » Marian Seldes, American actress († 2014)

• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)

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.
• 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 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
• September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
• October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
• November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on August 23, 1926 was between 11.5 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.