About the day » Tuesday February 26, 1924Calender converter

• Betty (Elisabeth) L. Klein, Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Anna Veldman, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2023)
• Adriaan de Kok, Rotterdam († 2009)
• Bernhard Willem Kwekkeboom, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2009)
• Adriana Hendrina Lucassen, Amsterdam († 2023)
• "Barend" Appel, Waddinxveen († 2013)
• Alberdina Berends, Roden († 2001)
• Augustinus Deveilder, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1930)
• Amel Maatjes, Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland († 2010)
• Amalia (Antoinette) Vilder de (Deveilder), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 2019)

• Anna Catharina Engelen (66), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bakx (72), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Groen (0), Westerlee, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Menzes Timmermans (73)
• Antonie Kooijman (95), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Jager (95), Peperga
• Anna Catharina Engelen (66), Delft
• Agatha de Nijs (1), Vleuten-de Meern, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Arie van NIELEN (0), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana VISSER (75), Rhoon

• 1920 » Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer († 2005)
• 1921 » Betty Hutton, American actress and singer († 2007)
• 1922 » Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer and businessman († 2007)
• 1922 » Margaret Leighton, English actress († 1976)
• 1924 » Marc Bucci, American composer, lyricist, and dramatist († 2002)
• 1924 » Noboru Takeshita, Japanese soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Japan († 2000)
• 1925 » Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer and referee
• 1926 » Doris Belack, American actress († 2011)
• 1926 » Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer († 2015)
• 1927 » Tom Kennedy, American game show host and actor

• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1936 » February 26 Incident:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)

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

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

• 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 7.2 million citizens.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).

The temperature on February 26, 1924 was between -3.6 °C and -1.9 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.