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• Albert Baerten, Bilzen († 1986)
• Aline Vanhees, Beverlo-Beringen († 1995)
• Adriana Cornelia Talboom, Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Anna T Holleran, North Braddock Ward 3, Allegheny, Pennsylvania († 2003)
• Abraham Emens, Olst,Olst-Wijhe,Overijssel,Nederland († 1991)
• Anke Groenendal, Workun († 1975)
• Aaltje van Ravenhorst, Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Schaaphok, Groningen
• Anna van den Munckhof, Horst, Netherlands († 2004)
• Anko Berend Reininga, Winschoten († 1992)

• Anna Julia Dimphna Nevelsteen (0), Geel 2440, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Smet (0), Bornem
• Anna Maria Elisabeth JANISSEN (89), Swalmen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Julia Dimphna Nevelsteen (0)
• Adrianus (Adriaan) Heirbaut (71), Temse, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgi
• Bertha Muller (22), Rotterdam
• Christina van Rijn (74), Cothen
• Calhoun H Welborn (58), Pelican, De Soto, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Heirbaut (71), Temse, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Hendrikus Adrianus Hubertus Schoenmakers (59), Raamsdonkveer

• 1910 » Vic Woodley, English footballer († 1978)
• 1911 » Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor († 1996)
• 1912 » Dane Clark, American actor and director († 1998)
• 1913 » George Barker, English author and poet († 1991)
• 1914 » Robert Alda, American actor, singer, and director († 1986)
• 1916 » Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer († 1987)
• 1918 » Otis R. Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana († 2013)
• 1918 » Pyotr Masherov, Leader of Soviet Belarus († 1980)
• 1918 » Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic († 1985)
• 1919 » Mason Adams, American actor († 2005)

• 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)
• 1936 » February 26 Incident:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
• January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
• July 16 » At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
• July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
• August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
• August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
• October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

The temperature on February 26, 1915 was between -4.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.