About the day » Thursday April 26, 1923Calender converter

• Bernice Antoinette Bippen, St. Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Alecie Henriëtte Guilemine le Cocq d' Armandville, Ulestraten, Limburg, Nederland († 2009)
• André Oscar Stanislas DEGRAEVE, Coudekerque Branche...Hauts de France († 2014)
• Anna Rachel Abas Cauveren, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Anna Maria Josephina Nijsten, Beek, gemeente Beek, Limburg, Nederland († 1984)
• Anna Rachel Abas, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Bertus Adrianus Rietveld († 1998)
• Adriana Baaijens, Kleverskerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 2007)
• Bernardina Maria Boon, Heerlen, Nederland († 1987)
• Bernard Theodor Schulte, Wynot, NE († 1976)

• Adriana Jol (66), scheveningen
• Aaltje van der Molen (16), Uithuizermeeden, Nederland
• Albertus Hendricus Biesmans (0), Vucht (B)
• Adriana Verdwaald (28), Breda (NL)
• Aaltje Van der Fluit (80), Schagen
• Alida van der Torre (75), Rotterdam
• Albartus Gerhardus Breukink (72), Doesburg, Nederland
• Arie van Vliet (0), Overschie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allegonda Henrica van Esch (66), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aaltje van der Molen (16), Uithuizermeeden

• 1921 » Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer († 2008)
• 1922 » J. C. Holt, English historian and academic († 2014)
• 1922 » Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada († 1993)
• 1922 » Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer († 2019)
• 1924 » Browning Ross, American runner and soldier († 1998)
• 1925 » Frank Hahn, British economist († 2013)
• 1925 » Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist († 2013)
• 1925 » Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur († 2015)
• 1925 » Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author († 2019)
• 1926 » Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator († 2003)

• 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)
• 1946 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)

• 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
• January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
• March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
• June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
• September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
• November 11 » Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

The temperature on April 26, 1923 was between 7.9 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.