About the day » Monday May 26, 1862Calender converter

• Adriaana Jantje Douwma, Dokkum
• Anna Antoinetta Maria Laboyrie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Aagtje Pieterdr Bregman, Zijpe († 1884)
• Adriana Hoedjes, Breda (NL) († 1938)
• Anna Catharina Bennewitz, Dieren († 1920)
• adriana hoedjes, breda († 1938)
• Adriaantje Soeteman, Ijsselmonde
• Andrew Ephraim Toolson, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1945)
• Albertus Jacobus Goudt, Loenen
• Adriaantje Lems, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1895)

• Anna Catharina De Graaf (53), Poppel,Antwerp,Belgium
• Albertus Willem Smalt (60), Renswoude,Gemeente Renswoude,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Benjamin Meinardi (42)
• ADRIANA VAN DER GIESSEN (0), KRIMPEN AAN DEN IJSSEL
• Adolf Geerdink (77), Hoonte, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina de Graaf (53), Poppel (België)
• Adriana de Veer (0), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bregtje Buma (1), Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana de Weert (9), Steenbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Bloem (78), Ressen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• February 16 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
• April 7 » American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
• April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
• June 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.

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%.