About the day » Thursday May 26, 1921Calender converter

• Andre Gubbels, Bergen (L) († 1944)
• Albert B. HENDRICKS, Waupun (Do) († 1990)
• Aaldert Jan Rotmensen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1937)
• André Lambert Henri Marie GUBBELS, Bergen, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Antoinette Louise van Roon, 's Gravenhage († 2000)
• Arina Geertruida Dijkshoorn, Naaldwijk (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Albert Poort († 1987)
• Arie Schreuders, 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2002)
• Anthonie Nelis van Amerongen, Utrecht († 2007)
• Anna Mae Huisman († 1977)

• Aaltje Sprong (87), Streefkerk
• Adriana van Diemen (79), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van de Polder (51), Brielle
• Abe Ates Kooistra (71)
• Adriana van Wanrooij (57), Goor, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abraham Kisch (0), Groningen
• (1) Cornelis Johannes de Goeij (49), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Antonia Johanna Friebel (60), Venray
• Anette Henriette Wagelmans (65), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Alphonse Joseph NAGANT de DEUXCHAISNES (78), Leuven, Provincie Vlaams-Brabant, Flanders, Belgie

• 1916 » Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist and author († 1972)
• 1919 » Rubén González, Cuban pianist († 2003)
• 1920 » Jack Cheetham, South African cricketer († 1980)
• 1920 » Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress († 2002)
• 1921 » Inge Borkh, German soprano († 2018)
• 1922 » Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In († 2009)
• 1923 » James Arness, American actor († 2011)
• 1923 » Roy Dotrice, English actor († 2017)
• 1925 » Alec McCowen, English actor († 2017)
• 1925 » Carmen Montejo, Cuban-Mexican actress († 2013)

• 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. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Arie

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

• 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 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 6.9 million citizens.
• February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
• March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
• May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
• May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
• October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.

The temperature on May 26, 1921 was between 13.8 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.