About the day » Tuesday January 5, 1926Calender converter

• Annechien Makken, Groningen († 2011)
• Opgenoort, Elst († 1926)
• Albert Noorlander, Soest († 1996)
• Abram Poons, 's-Gravenhage († 1942)
• Ans Klaassen, Almelo,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1997)
• Allan Theodore Weigand, Victoria County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Adolph Herman Jacob Mogroby, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Anna Françoise Van Den Bergh, Ougrée,4102,Liège,Wallonie,Belgique († 2006)
• Antonio Gonzalez Batista, Barcelona,08001,Catalunya,ES († 1999)
• Antonetta van der Zouwen, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)

• Baby Boy Williams (0), Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Auke Atzes de Groot (79), Workum
• Adam Olivier de Vos, Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Joachim Tas (81), Rotterdam
• Anna Gertrud Quaedflieg (66), Kerkrade (L
• Albert Wind (15), Enschede
• Adolf Basile DHONDT (0), Ouwegem, Kruisem, Province of East Flanders, Belgium
• Bauke Boersma (59), Groningen (Grunn), Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Joachim Tas (81), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bijloo (92), Schiedam

• 1922 » Anthony Synnot, Australian admiral († 2001)
• 1923 » Sam Phillips, American radio host and producer, founded Sun Records († 2003)
• 1926 » Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist († 2000)
• 1926 » Veikko Karvonen, Finnish runner († 2007)
• 1926 » W. D. Snodgrass, American poet († 2009)
• 1927 » Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American guru and author, founded Iraivan Temple († 2001)
• 1928 » Imtiaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer († 2016)
• 1928 » Walter Mondale, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States
• 1928 » Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan († 1979)
• 1929 » Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager († 2014)

• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (b. 1899)
• 1951 » Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887)

• 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 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• 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.
• August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on January 5, 1926 was between 2.8 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.