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• Alphons de RIJK, Amsterdam (N-H) († 2005)
• Albertus de Vries, De Rijp († 1960)
• Bernard Albertus Hanskamp, Wish († 1926)
• Adrianus Petrus van der Zanden, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1930)
• Antoinetta Elisabeth Cornelissen, Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Antje Homma, Haskerland
• Sleddens, Vessem
• Adrianus Lepelaars, Eersel († 2011)
• Antje Dorothea Salfischberger, Den Helder, den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1992)
• Antje Dorothea Salfischberger, Den Helder († 2009)

• Cornelis van Opstal (88), Oosterhout
• Albert Truin (70)
• Adriana Louiza Arends (52), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Levie HOED (64), Medemblik, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Antonius Marinus de Kruijf (6), Son en Breugel
• Adriana Lommers (52), Tilburg, NL
• Dirk Vogel (78), Westbroek,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Christina Wilhelmina (Maria) Vink (87), Delft
• Antoni MULDER (73), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Grietje Faken (38), Zuidwolde

• 1924 » Joyce Randolph, American actress
• 1924 » Julie Wilson, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1925 » Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer († 2003)
• 1925 » Virginia Zeani, Romanian soprano and educator
• 1926 » Bob Rosburg, American golfer († 2009)
• 1926 » Leonard Rossiter, English actor († 1984)
• 1927 » Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer
• 1927 » Howard Zieff, American director and photographer († 2009)
• 1928 » Eudóxia Maria Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist († 2015)
• 1928 » Whitey Ford, American baseball player and coach

• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877)
• 1952 » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)

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 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
• March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• 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 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

The temperature on October 21, 1926 was between -2.9 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.