About the day » Friday April 26, 1918Calender converter

• Barbara van Kemenade, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2009)
• Catharina Sijm, Westwoud, Drechterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• CHRISTINA DE SUTTER, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1988)
• Antonius Franciscus Bernardus Oosterik, Saasveld,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1984)
• Albertha Sjoukje Bloembergen, Rottevalle († 1970)
• Berend Egberts, Anerveen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1979)
• Aaltje Messink, amsterdam, Nederland († 2006)
• Alice Renee Crabbe, Sortosville-en-Beaumont, Friesland, Nederland († 2009)
• Albertus de GREEF, Loosdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)
• (Stillborn) DRAISMA, Hengelo Overijssel Netherlands († 1918)

• Carolus JACOBS (74), Veldhoven, 4305, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barber Harmina Deelman (42), 's-Gravenhage
• Bernardina Christina Teunissen (58), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barber Harmina Deelman (42), Den Haag, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aleida Freriks (74), Voorst
• Abraham Tonninge (66), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anton Carl August Berding (72), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolus Jacobs (74), Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Lijntje de Kogel (58), Groot-Ammers
• Aukje van Buiten (52), Smilde

• 1914 » Bernard Malamud, Jewish American novelist and short story writer († 1986)
• 1914 » James Rouse, American real estate developer († 1996)
• 1916 » Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator († 2000)
• 1916 » Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot († 2013)
• 1916 » Morris West, Australian author and playwright († 1999)
• 1917 » I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower († 2019)
• 1917 » Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach († 1992)
• 1917 » Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach († 2013)
• 1918 » Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper († 2004)
• 1921 » Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer († 2008)

• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)

• 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.
• January 26 » Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
• February 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
• June 22 » The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• August 27 » Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
• November 7 » Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• 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 April 26, 1918 was between 5.8 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.