About the day » Friday February 26, 1926Calender converter

• Bernard Rudolf Speller, Barger-compascuum († 2005)
• Cornelia De Groot († 2006)
• Anna Beeldens, Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1979)
• Antonius Petronella Petrus Wirken, Ginneken en Bavel († 2007)
• Catharina Paulina Maria van der Poel, Tilburg († 1994)
• Cornelis Maria Broeders, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Albertje van Goor, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1940)
• Cornelius Maria Broeders, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Cornelia Adriana Wijten, Halsteren († 1974)
• Aaltje de Jager († 2014)

• Adriaan Jasperse (74)
• Aafke Willems van der Wal (77), Leeuwarden
• Andries Tönis (52), Rotterdam
• Anna Hendrika Spigt (56), Haarlemmermeer
• Abraham Salomon Noach (73), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Mourik (65), Zoelen
• Abraham Hamburger (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Ulenreef (72), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonia Niessink (17), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Kriek (65)

• 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
• 1928 » Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel († 2014)
• 1928 » Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2017)

• 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. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

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

• 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
• March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
• May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
• September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.

The temperature on February 26, 1926 was between 0.6 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.