About the day » Saturday April 26, 1924Calender converter

• Annie REMMER († 1998)
• Adriana Sillem, The Hague († 1984)
• Ariën Ruitenbeek, Putten († 1944)
• Berta Cornelia Verhoeven, Alphen Riel († 1934)
• Catharina Hubertina Cleutjens († 1977)
• A.M. van Wegen († 1993)
• child Stillborn († 1924)
• Alma Kuno, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Alida Mol († 2019)
• Bouwe Grooten, Emmen († 1991)

• Anna Theresia Theodora van Bijlevelt (68), Nijmegen, Gemeente Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arie de Vroome (74), ‘s-Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Loof (73), Terneuzen, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anna Kluwe (43), Rotterdam
• Adrianus BUS (3), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Jacobsz Haasnoot (73), Scheveningen
• Anna Cornelia Koekhoven (86), Oorderen
• Alphonsus Baert (42), Lansing, MI(US)
• Arie Gijsbert van Lent (34), Driel
• Amelia Becqué (60), Oordegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• 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 7.2 million citizens.
• January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on April 26, 1924 was between 8.9 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.