About the day » Thursday February 26, 1891Calender converter

• "Edith" Marie Henriette Delamarre de Monchaux, Dunkerque, Nord, France († 1978)
• Adriaan Colijn († 1923)
• Adrianus Marinus Overduijn, Maastricht († 1893)
• Aart de Vries, Weesperkarspel
• Anna Zélie Bouvier, Quievrechain, Friesland, Nederland
• Adelie Drye, Stanly, North Carolina, United States († 1892)
• Ada Louisa HODGSON († 1979)
• Anna Elisabeth TUBBEN, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aafje Stijkel, Steenwijkerwold († 1964)
• Anna Catharina Hubertina Hovens, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1968)

• (l.l.) van Oost (0), Zierikzee
• Albertus Karel (0), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
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• Albertus Hendriksz Karel (0), Kampen, ov.nld
• Alberdina Futselaar (80), Hattem
• Aaltje van Dijken (57), Gasselternijveen gem. Gasselte
• Adolf van Dijk (49)
• Albertus van de Geijn (9), Leeuwen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aagje Teunisdr van Egmond│Vermae (67), Rijnsburg
• Aaltie van Dijken (57), Gasselterboerveenschemond, Nederland

• 1882 » Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral († 1968)
• 1885 » Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian farmer and politician, 2nd President of Lithuania († 1969)
• 1887 » Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach († 1950)
• 1887 » Stefan Grabiński, Polish author and educator († 1936)
• 1887 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian († 1966)
• 1893 » Dorothy Whipple, English novelist († 1966)
• 1893 » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (disappeared 1934)
• 1896 » Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician († 1948)
• 1899 » Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician, 54th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1994)
• 1900 » Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet († 1989)

• 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)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

• 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 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
• April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
• July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
• December 22 » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

The temperature on February 26, 1891 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.