About the day » Friday September 26, 1924Calender converter

• Anna van Werven, Zwolle, Overijssel, NL († 1927)
• Albertus Gerdina Maria de Nijs, Loon op Zand († 2006)
• Catharina Sanders († 2006)
• Andries van der Graaf, Helmond (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1987)
• Adriana Maria Duijn, Limmen († 1996)
• Andries Moeijes, Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Adrianus KRANENDONK, 's-Gravendeel († 1997)
• Antonius Sebastianus Pelkmans, Rijen († 1988)
• Reitsma, Utrecht († 1924)
• Antoinette Dymphna Hermanus (Nettie) Teklenburg, Tilburg († 2012)

• Reitsma (0), Utrecht
• Calep C. Sims (82), Roscoe, St.Clair County, Missouri
• Dorothea Agerbeek (73)
• Evert Jan Roelofs (40), Raalte
• Cornelia den Braber (37), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius de Wijs (23), Made en Drimmelen NL
• Elisabeth Sophia Plieger, Amsterdam
• Cornelia van Zon (79), Berkel-Enschot
• Engelbertus (Engel) van Stijn (75), Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elizabeth Mc Gregor (74), Opotiki, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

• 1922 » Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia († 2014)
• 1922 » Takis Miliadis, Greek actor († 1985)
• 1923 » Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2011)
• 1923 » Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, English cricketer, lawyer, and judge († 2015)
• 1923 » James Hennessy, English businessman and diplomat
• 1924 » Jean Hoerni, Swiss physicist, inventor and businessman († 1997)
• 1925 » Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and race car driver († 1982)
• 1925 » Norm Dussault, American-Canadian ice hockey player († 2012)
• 1926 » Julie London, American singer and actress († 2000)
• 1926 » Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist and academic († 2011)

• 1902 » Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)
• 1904 » John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese author and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Charles Wade, Australian politician, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (b. 1861)
• 1937 » Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926)
• 1945 » Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1946 » William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (b. 1869)

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.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

The temperature on September 26, 1924 was between 8.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.