About the day » Sunday February 26, 1865Calender converter

• Alida Hauer, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1930)
• Anna Maria Strolenberg, Kerkrade (L († 1929)
• Adraval Witcher "Abner" Bankston, Tyler County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1941)
• Adrien Jean Pierre Roestenberg, Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
• Abraham van Geest, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1868)
• Andreas Albertus Mulder, Rotterdam († 1931)
• Anna Maria Roelants, Massenhoven, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Albertus Odding, meppel († 1952)
• Aaltje Koops de Weerd, Smilde († 1913)
• Adriana Cornelia de BEER, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1923)

• Anna Hermina Santman (62), Hardenberg
• Aaltjen (Aaltje) Brus (1), Breedenbroek, Gendringen, Nederland
• Christina de Jong (45), IJsselmonde
• Adrianus Gersen (50), Gouda
• Anna Barbara COREVAAR (47), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Brus (1), Breedenbroek, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aaltje BRUS (1), Breedenbroek, Gendringen, Gelderland, NL
• Celestina Rosalia Delnad (2), Oostburg
• Ary Kooijman (82), Nieuw Lekkerland
• Anna Marcusse (35), Wissenkerke

• 1852 » John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes († 1943)
• 1857 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist († 1926)
• 1861 » Ferdinand I of Bulgaria († 1948)
• 1861 » Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian soldier and politician († 1939)
• 1866 » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company († 1930)
• 1877 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1877 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator († 1968)
• 1879 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer († 1941)
• 1880 » Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer († 1972)
• 1881 » Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet († 1948)

• 1813 » Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (b. 1746)
• 1815 » Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1737)
• 1821 » Joseph de Maistre, French lawyer and diplomat (b. 1753)
• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
• April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
• May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
• December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.

The temperature on February 26, 1865 was about -0.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.