About the day » Wednesday October 20, 1926Calender converter

• Catharina Elisabeth Schook, Nijmegen († 1944)
• Cornelia M. A. H. Leesberg († 2006)
• Chris STEijlen, Rotterdam († 1989)
• Adrianus Marinus Gerardus Meesters, Roosendaal († 2004)
• Anna Gerarda Meijers, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1998)
• Alphonsus Franciscus Lentfert, De Lutte († 2012)
• Albert Rowaan, Losdrop, Bierum, NETHERLANDS († 2006)
• Cornelis Franciscus (Cor) de Zoete, Wateringen, Nederland († 2016)
• Anna Maria Vijlder († 2009)
• Albert Rowaan, Losdorp († 2006)

• Pippel (0), Deil West Betuwe (GL)
• Adriaan Smit (22)
• Aletta Scheepmaker (38), Leiden
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Welsch (78), Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Welsch (79), in Amsterdam
• Alida van Beelen (30), Noordwijk aan Zee, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Lustig (44), Haarlem
• Arnoldus Cornelius Franciscus Tijsse Klasen (14), Wijchen
• Anske Jouwerts Molewijk, 's-Gravenmoer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Amedia Atwood (36), Casey County KY

• 1922 » John Anderson, American actor († 1992)
• 1923 » Robert Craft, American conductor and musicologist († 2015)
• 1924 » Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic († 2014)
• 1925 » Art Buchwald, American soldier and journalist († 2007)
• 1925 » Roger Hanin, Algerian-French actor, director, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1925 » Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer († 2002)
• 1926 » Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English lieutenant and politician, founded the National Motor Museum († 2015)
• 1927 » Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic († 2007)
• 1927 » Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress († 2013)
• 1928 » Michael O'Donnell, English physician, author, and journalist († 2019)

• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
• 1926 » Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Jack Peddie, Scottish footballer (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1911)
• 1950 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)

• 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.
• 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.)
• 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.
• June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on October 20, 1926 was between -1.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.