About the day » Monday May 26, 1862Calender converter

• Anna Maria Waanders, Leur,Wijchen
• Alfons Augustien van Puyenbroeck, Temse
• Anna Catharina Bennewitz, Dieren († 1920)
• Albertus Jacobus Goudt, Loenen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltje Kranenburg, Scharmer († 1942)
• Andrew Ephraim Toolson, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1945)
• Trijntje Bol, Wijk aan Zee en Duin († 1877)
• Antonia Kolmans, Drunen († 1878)
• Adriaana Jantje Douwma, dokkum
• Anna Maria Broeseliske, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1953)

• Albertus Wetzelaer (25), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Bartholomeus van Vaelenberg (85), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bartholomeus van Vaelenbergh (Palenberg) (85), Wassenaar
• Antje Van Baaren (1), Ingen (Lienden)
• Adriaan Bloem (78), Ressen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana de Weert (9), Steenbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Benjamin Meinardi (42)
• Bernardus Johannes van Heek (18), Gouda
• Antje Antonia Voet (1), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina de Graaf (53), Poppel (België)

• 1863 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-New Zealand boxer († 1917)
• 1865 » Robert W. Chambers, American author and illustrator († 1933)
• 1867 » Mary of Teck, English-born queen consort of the United Kingdom († 1953)
• 1873 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1876 » Percy Perrin, English cricketer († 1945)
• 1880 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator († 1967)
• 1881 » Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 († 1955)
• 1883 » Mamie Smith, American singer, actress, dancer, and pianist († 1946)
• 1886 » Al Jolson, American singer and actor († 1950)
• 1887 » Ba U, 2nd President of Burma († 1963)

• 1818 » Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785)
• 1818 » Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1761)
• 1824 » Capel Lofft, English lawyer (b. 1751)
• 1840 » Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (b. 1764)
• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808)
• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Trijntje
14. Neeltje
15. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
• February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• July 12 » The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
• September 8 » Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
• September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
• December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

The temperature on May 26, 1862 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.