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• Aaltje Rotmensen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2024)
• Christiaan Torenstra, 's-Gravenzande (huwelijksboekje ouders) († 2000)
• Albert Spermon, 's-Gravenhage († 2018)
• Anna Wilhelmina Krijnen, Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1927)
• Antonie Johannes Adrianus Wouters, Tilburg
• Aaltje Geertruida van de Brug († 2003)
• Christina Johanna Wessels, Dinteloord († 1986)
• Bob Haak, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Cornelia Havenaar, Rotterdam († 1926)
• Adrianus Bernardus van Esch, Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)

• Andrew John Beintema (61), Davenport-Iowa (USA)
• Alphonsus Josephus Van de Walle (81), Frankrijk
• Aleida Hogendam (67), Rotterdam
• de Visser (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana GROENEWEG Adr (79), Middelharnis, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Anna Helena Lippold (3), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aletta Kerkhoff (86), Gameren, Nederland
• Alletta Kerkhof (86), Gameren
• Annechien van het Hof (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Everts Westerdijk (76)

• 1923 » Diana Douglas, British-American actress († 2015)
• 1924 » Charles Lisanby, American production designer and art director († 2013)
• 1924 » Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal († 2015)
• 1924 » J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer († 2001)
• 1925 » Bobby Young, American baseball player († 1985)
• 1925 » Johnny Bucha, American baseball player († 1996)
• 1927 » Joe Perry, American footballer († 2011)
• 1927 » Lou Creekmur, American football player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1928 » Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian, author, and academic († 2004)
• 1929 » Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster († 2007)

• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1925 » Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer and mountain climber (b. 1859)
• 1927 » James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)
• 1929 » R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
• 1931 » László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)

• 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.
• January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
• June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.

The temperature on January 22, 1926 was between -2.2 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.