About the day » Monday March 26, 1917Calender converter

• Alberta Reinera Arnds, Zevenaar, Gelderland (NL.) († 2002)
• Albert de Vries, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 2001)
• Adrianus Nicolaas Jozef van der Kleij, Den Haag († 1988)
• van Runt, wijk aan zee (noord holland)
• Anna Wiecherdina Koning, Kopstukken (gem. Stadskanaal) († 2011)
• Adriaan Petrus Charles Dominicus Luisterburg, Druten,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1978)
• , ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Annie Hermine van Veen, Uithuizermeeden, Hefswal († 2010)
• Agnes Violet Kannegieter, Toronto, South Dakota († 2016)
• Aaltje SPINDER, Groningen († 2002)

• Adriana Hultermans (30), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Paulissen (17), Venray
• Annie Angus MacIver (80), Cabot, Washington, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Schonewille (3), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Schmidt (83), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Koetsier (67), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• van Veen
• Jantje Van Der Weide (67), Schuinesloot
• Albert Ernest Vijgen (0), Groot-Gelmen, België
• Alphonse Johan Groosmans (10), IJzendijke

• 1914 » Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and academic († 1995)
• 1914 » William Westmoreland, American general († 2005)
• 1915 » Hwang Sun-won, North Korean author and poet († 2000)
• 1915 » Lennart Strandberg, Swedish sprinter († 1989)
• 1916 » Bill Edrich, English cricketer and footballer († 1986)
• 1916 » Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1916 » Sterling Hayden, American actor and author († 1986)
• 1917 » Rufus Thomas, American R&B singer-songwriter († 2001)
• 1919 » Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player († 1965)
• 1919 » Strother Martin, American actor († 1980)

• 1902 » Cecil Rhodes, English-South African colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (b. 1853)
• 1905 » Maurice Barrymore, American actor (b. 1849)
• 1910 » Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
• 1920 » William Chester Minor, American surgeon and lexicographer (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and screenwriter (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Constantin Fehrenbach, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Henry M. Leland, American machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln (b. 1843)
• 1934 » John Biller, American jumper and discus thrower (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Spyridon Louis, Greek runner (b. 1873)
• 1940 » Wilhelm Anderson, German-Estonian astrophysicist (b. 1880)

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

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

• 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 6.5 million citizens.
• March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
• April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
• May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
• November 7 » World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
• December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

The temperature on March 26, 1917 was between 1.0 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.