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• Calvin LeRoy Carter, Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States of America († 1968)
• Adrianus Johan Evert Marie van Ekelenburg, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2005)
• Bram Noorlander († 1978)
• Albrecht Georg Willem Eugene Prins van Schaumburg-Lippe, Hagenburg, Nedersaksen († 1945)
• Alice Irene Garrett, Kansas City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Albert Bonsing, Hoogkerk († 1994)
• Adriana Maria Petronella Antonia de Volder, Goirle († 1979)
• Alexander Goudketting, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Antonetta Maria Wagenaars, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2019)
• boy-3 Denlinger († 1926)

• Abraham 't Hart (87), Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Beerens (29), Tilburg
• Aaltje Wagenaar (43), Broek op L'dijk
• Adrianus Antonius Beerens (29), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Coles (68), Fair Haven (Monmouth County) (New Jersey)
• Adriana Maria Vermeulen (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham 't Hart (87), Hoek van Holland,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Scheffers (1), Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaantje Dekker (69), Rotterdam
• Anna van St. Genois d'Anneaucourt (75), Baden, Niederösterreich

• 1925 » Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster († 2013)
• 1925 » Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician († 2004)
• 1925 » David Jenkins, English bishop and theologian († 2016)
• 1925 » Joan Leslie, American actress († 2015)
• 1925 » Paul Newman, American actor, activist, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own († 2008)
• 1926 » Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and scholar († 2013)
• 1926 » Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American architect and businessman, co-founded the Sea Pines Company († 2014)
• 1927 » Bob Nieman, American baseball player and scout († 1985)
• 1927 » Hubert Schieth, German footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1927 » José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras († 2005)

• 1904 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman (b. 1846)
• 1926 » John Flannagan, American priest and academic (b. 1860)
• 1932 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861)
• 1942 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
• 1943 » Harry H. Laughlin, American sociologist and eugenicist (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1884)
• 1946 » Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (b. 1868)
• 1947 » Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (b. 1898)
• 1948 » Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1882)

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. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

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.
• January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
• May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
• June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
• August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

The temperature on January 26, 1926 was between 2.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.