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• Allegonda Wilhelmina van den Biggelaar, Vessem († 2000)
• Anna Louisa Starink, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Anna Johanna den Ambtman, Utrecht († 1950)
• Aalt Doppenberg, Vierhouten (Ermelo) († 1989)
• Annie Zonneveld, Castricum († 1997)
• * Hendrica Henrietta van luijk, Rotterdam († 2010)
• Alberta Wilhelmine Fernande LOGEART, Saint-Pierre-à-Arnes,08310,Ardennes,Champagne-Ardenne,FRANCE († 2011)
• van Ekeren, Lent, Gelderland, Nederland († 2009)
• Albartus van den Hatert, Ochten (Gelderland) Nederland († 1974)
• Aartje Cornelia van GINK, Dordrecht († 1997)

• Aaltje Teunissen Schuit (74), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Koekebacker (79), Portugaal
• Albert van der Schuur (0), Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Johannes Benjamins (0), Hollandscheveld
• Alke Goeree (11), DR, Netherlands
• Amelie (ST. Andries-Vlissegem) Maene (59)
• Emma Florentina Maria Baert, Koewacht
• Albert van der Schuur (0), Zuidwending (Veendam)
• Anna Das (84), Hilversum, Nederland
• Henricus van Kappel (92), Raamsdonkveer

• 1912 » János Kádár, Hungarian mechanic and politician, 46th Prime Minister of Hungary († 1989)
• 1913 » Josef Manger, German weightlifter († 1991)
• 1913 » Karin Ekelund, Swedish actress († 1976)
• 1913 » Peter Cushing, English actor († 1994)
• 1913 » Pierre Daninos, French author († 2005)
• 1914 » Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer († 2009)
• 1915 » Antonia Forest, English author († 2003)
• 1915 » Vernon Alley, American bassist († 2004)
• 1916 » Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist and author († 1972)
• 1919 » Rubén González, Cuban pianist († 2003)

• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1939 » Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)

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

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

• 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 6.4 million citizens.
• January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
• April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
• September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
• September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
• September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
• December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

The temperature on May 26, 1916 was between 10.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.