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• Diderika Jacobina van der Laaken, Leiden († 2013)
• Anthonius Josephus Hyacinthus van Berge Henegouwen, Weurt, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Aartje Doppenberg, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 2002)
• Cornelis Veerdig, 's Gravenhage († 1972)
• Adriaantje Johanna Beekman, Bruinisse († 1918)
• Aaltje Brönstrup, Lutten († 1918)
• Arie Griffioen, Loosdrecht († 1980)
• Cornelia van Sprang, Hengelo († 2002)
• Anna Maria Droomers († 2011)
• Albert Steinvoort, Rheden († 1918)

• Arie Belder (34), 's-Gravenhage
• Antonius Joannes Kok (0), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolphine Elisa Bernard (73), Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anne Henstra (65), Naarden
• Arris van Ginkel (59), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aurelia van der Weg (28), St. Nicolaasga, Friesland, Nederland
• Bene Alberts Vaartjes (76)
• Angelina Peeters (62), Balen, Antwerpen, België
• Agatha (Aagje) Groothuizen (51), Waarland
• Arie Scholte (84), weesp

• 1914 » Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and academic († 1995)
• 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)
• 1920 » Sergio Livingstone, Chilean footballer and journalist († 2012)

• 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. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Albert
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• March 27 » The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
• July 6 » The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
• September 15 » World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
• November 7 » The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
• November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
• November 11 » World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.

The temperature on March 26, 1918 was between -3.2 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.