About the day » Monday July 26, 1886Calender converter

• Albert KOOPS, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1962)
• Aldegonda de Vaan, Vlijmen († 1886)
• Adriana Bijl, Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1886)
• Alida Jantina Klemens, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Maria Schapendonk-, Strijp, Nederland († 1973)
• Anna Christina Bergmans, Tilburg, Tilburg, Noord Babant, Nederland († 1963)
• Albertus Evers, Kootwijkernroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Adolf, André Van Hecke, Bellem († 1955)
• Aalbertus Evers, Kootwijkerbroek (Barneveld), Gelderland, Nederland († 1977)
• Adelijda Bernardina Renarda Bakker, Vianen, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1935)

• Van Rheede (0), Elden (Elst)
• Ana Constança Gonçalves dos Santos (33), Casa Branca, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adriana van Zundert (68), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Asenath Cole (74), New York State, Verenigde Staten
• Aagje Post (1), Zaandam
• Albert Smit (56), Hoevelaken, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolina Josepha van Dijk (63), Dussen
• Alton Alford (37), Armidale, Armidale Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia
• Anna Kenau Wilhelmina Gevers Deijnoot (38), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Boele Everts de Haan (41), Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1879 » Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th Japanese Minister of War († 1962)
• 1880 » Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic († 1951)
• 1882 » Albert Dunstan, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Victoria († 1950)
• 1885 » André Maurois, French soldier and author († 1967)
• 1885 » Roy Castleton, American Major League Baseball player (d.1967)
• 1886 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor († 1965)
• 1888 » Reginald Hands, South African cricketer and rugby player († 1918)
• 1890 » Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 1942)
• 1892 » Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager († 1966)
• 1893 » George Grosz, German painter and illustrator († 1959)

• 1863 » Sam Houston, American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas (b. 1793)
• 1867 » Otto, king of Greece (b. 1815)
• 1899 » Ulises Heureaux, 22nd, 26th, and 27th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1845)
• 1915 » James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Edward Poynter, English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1921 » Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b. 1848)
• 1925 » Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
• 1925 » William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1926 » Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)

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

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

• 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on July 26, 1886 was about 21.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.