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• Don Vinton Wells, Piqua, Miami, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Cornelia Johanna Petronella de Swart, Tilburg († 1945)
• Dorothy May “Dot” Stanley, Neelys Landing, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Elisabeth van der Spoel, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Antoon Ligtlee († 2002)
• Dirk van Mourik, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Benjamin Ike Phelps († 1995)
• Donald Gibson Nulton, Beaumont, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania († 2011)
• Elisabeth Anna Maria Geerts, Galder, Nederland († 1949)
• Cornelia Maria Theresia Schaareman, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Ariën Willemsen (79), Angerlo
• Aaltje Stek (86), Beerta, Oldambt, Groningen, Nederland
• Agatha Vermeulen (92), Haarlemmermeer
• Anna Christina van Leeuwen (56), Kethel
• Aleida Spanhak (78), Zwolle
• Anna (Anny) van Moorsel (12), Breda
• Albertje Hartman (70), Kerkrade
• Aart Jansen (79), Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Gerrit van Es (71), Apeldoorn
• Aaltje Stek (86), Oudedijk, gem. Beerta

• 1925 » Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer and referee
• 1926 » Doris Belack, American actress († 2011)
• 1926 » Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer († 2015)
• 1927 » Tom Kennedy, American game show host and actor
• 1928 » Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel († 2014)
• 1928 » Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2017)
• 1931 » Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager († 2004)
• 1931 » Josephine Tewson, English actress
• 1931 » Robert Novak, American journalist and author († 2009)
• 1932 » Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 2003)

• 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:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Margaretha
15. Aaltje
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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
• August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

The temperature on February 26, 1929 was between -7.2 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -5.2 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.