About the day » Friday January 26, 1906Calender converter

• Adrianus de Vries, Losser
• Albertus van Basten, Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Leeman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Gerritje van Schajik, Haarlemmermeer († 1999)
• De Maayer, Clinge Zeeland (NL)
• Aaltje Gerrits Bos, Stad Vollenhove, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1993)
• Adriaan Berg, van den, Nieuwerkerk gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL († 1953)
• Albertus Philippus van Amerongen, Utrecht
• Albertus Johannes Fröger, Zutphen
• Afke~Jetzes Reijenga, Idzegea († 1948)

• Antonia Johanna Jolink (0), Sinderen
• Arie Noorlander (63), Hendrik Ido Ambacht
• Ambroise Felix Jean Marie DESILLES (57), Bais, 35680, France
• Andrew GETTY (75), Dunham Québec Canada
• Anna Catharina Mannaerts (52), Merksem
• Antonia Gladdines (84), Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Asa Van Buren Riggins (68), Webster Co., Nebraska
• Aukjen Meintes de Vries (73)
• Alexander Todd ?**** (43), Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland
• Arendje Groen (1), Slagharen

• 1902 » Menno ter Braak, Dutch author († 1940)
• 1904 » Ancel Keys, American physiologist and nutritionist († 2004)
• 1904 » Seán MacBride, Irish lawyer and politician, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1905 » Charles Lane, American actor and singer († 2007)
• 1905 » Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 1987)
• 1907 » Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest and philologist († 2001)
• 1907 » Henry Cotton, English golfer († 1987)
• 1908 » Jill Esmond, English actress († 1990)
• 1908 » Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and sculptor († 2009)
• 1908 » Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist († 1997)

• 1885 » Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833)
• 1885 » Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)
• 1886 » David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, One of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)
• 1891 » Nicolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)
• 1893 » Abner Doubleday, American general (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (b. 1825)
• 1904 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman (b. 1846)
• 1926 » John Flannagan, American priest and academic (b. 1860)
• 1932 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861)

• 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 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
• August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
• 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.)
• September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

The temperature on January 26, 1906 was between 0.3 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.