About the day » Saturday December 26, 1891Calender converter

• Alfred Jean Abbeel, Roobaais, Frankrijk († 1892)
• Agatha Petrus Flapper, Amsterdam
• Adriana Blom, IJsselstein
• Anna Biemans, Made en Drimmelen, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1982)
• Aldert Leegwater, Oudendijk
• Adriaan Willem Ferdinandusse, Wemeldinge, Nederland († 1893)
• Ostermann, Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1891)
• Albertus Kooyker, Wijhe
• van den Bosch, Opheusden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1891)
• Aartje van Pijkeren, Oldebroek (Wezep)

• Woods (0), Sturgeon, Boone, Missouri, United States
• Aaltje Schimmel (70), Velp gem. Rheden Gld. NL
• van den Bosch (0), Opheusden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Geerts Tuinier (80), Sondel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje~Geerts Tuinier (80), Aldemardum
• Aart Streefland (75), Lekkerkerk
• de Reek (61), Best
• Aart Uittenbogaard (71), Hagestein, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Aart Uittenbogaard (71), Hagestein, Utrecht, Nederland
• * Cornelia van Wordrager (66), Ammerzoden

• 1883 » Maurice Utrillo, French painter († 1955)
• 1885 » Bazoline Estelle Usher, African-American educator († 1992)
• 1887 » Arthur Percival, English general († 1966)
• 1888 » Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian († 1982)
• 1890 » Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1973)
• 1890 » Percy Hodge, English runner († 1967)
• 1891 » Henry Miller, American author and painter († 1980)
• 1892 » Don Barclay, American actor and illustrator († 1975)
• 1893 » Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China († 1976)
• 1894 » Jean Toomer, American author and poet († 1967)

• 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
• March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.

The temperature on December 26, 1891 was about 4.9 °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 97%.