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• Ariea Gijsbertha van der Meij, Leiden († 1984)
• Charles Albert 'Chuckie' BATTING, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Dufrenne, Utrecht († 1984)
• Adriana Huizer, Abbenes († 1981)
• Cornelis van der Meij, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Ariea Gijsberta van der Meij, Leiden († 1984)
• Antje Dunnewind, Ommen († 2018)
• Anna Catharina Gertruida Michels, Venray († 2010)
• Bastiaan-Govert Otto, Fijnaart († 1990)
• Claire Marie Paule GOURDET, Neufchâteau (B) († 2014)

• Alexander William (Alex) Breckenridge (45), Newton, Jasper, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anderson Priestley Lashlee (73), Bethlehem,Benton County,Tennessee
• Bernardus Bergervoet (97), Herwen en Aerdt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anneke van Zuidam (73), (GL) Herwijnen
• Berend Hoogstra (70), Chicago (Cook), Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Alida de Groot (77), Rotterdam
• belia KLEIN HESSELINK (85), overschie
• Lubbe Houtman (82), Groningen
• Bertha Alexander Whittle (61), North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Aleida Koenderink (70), Haaksbergen, 7480, Nederland

• 1922 » Joanne Dru, American actress († 1996)
• 1923 » Norman Mailer, American journalist and author († 2007)
• 1925 » Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist († 2010)
• 1926 » Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter († 1958)
• 1926 » Tom Alston, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1927 » Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios († 2005)
• 1928 » Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer († 2015)
• 1929 » Jean Simmons, English-American actress († 2010)
• 1929 » Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1930 » Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver († 1972)

• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (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 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
• March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.

The temperature on January 31, 1926 was between 3.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.