About the day » Sunday August 26, 1906Calender converter

• Adriana Hagenaars, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Aaltje Klazes Kalsbeek, Swichum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2007)
• Simon Johannes Nicolaas Zijlmans, Raamsdonkveer
• Afien Steinfelder, Hoornderveen
• Adriaan Laurens Schrier, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Zwart, Valthermond (Gem. Odoorn) († 1971)
• Adrianus Rijsdijk, IJsselmonde († 1908)
• Aagjen Mulder, Musselkanaal († 2002)
• Adriana van Kampen, Goudswaard († 1935)
• Oliver, Marlie Hill, Saint Catherine, Jamaica

• Aaltje Broesder (59), Nieuw Scheemda (gem. Oldambt)
• Anna Maria Meuleman (40), Nijmegen
• Adriaan Schellen (84), Esch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allegonda Johanna Petronella Teulings (77), Boxtel, NL
• Bastiaan Schepper (2), Rotterdam
• Augustinus Joannes Wils (49), Brugge
• Adriana de Waard (74), Colijnsplaat
• Adrianus Cornelis Leppens (0), Ginneken en Bavel
• Bartholomeus Antonius Antonis Delmee (52), 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Visser (85), Sliedrecht

• 1903 » Caroline Pafford Miller, American author († 1992)
• 1904 » Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic († 1986)
• 1904 » Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer († 1991)
• 1906 » Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine († 1993)
• 1906 » Bunny Austin, English tennis player († 2000)
• 1908 » Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer († 1999)
• 1908 » Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar († 1967)
• 1909 » Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Gene Moore, American baseball player († 1978)
• 1909 » Jim Davis, American actor († 1981)

• 1865 » Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
• 1878 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)
• 1910 » William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1921 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1921 » Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1945 » Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
• October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

The temperature on August 26, 1906 was between 12.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.