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• Arsène BRIQUET, Wingles,62895,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1988)
• Cornelis Johannes Martinus Verhagen, Goirle († 1938)
• Catherine Pothoven, Peoria, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2007)
• Anna Samuel BOBBE, Den Haag († 1943)
• Clarence Eugene Stewart, Kansas, United States († 1988)
• Antje Boelen, Emmen
• Anneke Tak, Oud Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2016)
• Cornelis de Bont, Eindhoven († 1986)
• Bernard Jasper, Edgerton, Pipestone, Minnesota, United States († 1996)
• Broertje de Vos, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1926)

• Anna van Dijken (55), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aloisa van der Aa (65), Casteren
• Albert White Fletcher (84)
• Antje Jacobs Bottinga (81), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Koekkoek (0), Hoogeveen,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Koekkoek (0), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Barbara Bernarda Johanna Theresia Thomassen (0), Maastricht
• Arie van Driel (65), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Aartje Kool (70), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Judith Louw (61), Stellenbosch, Breede River DC, Western Cape, South Africa

• 1922 » Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress († 2005)
• 1922 » Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer († 2004)
• 1922 » Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia († 2012)
• 1925 » John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1925 » Lawrence A. Cremin, American historian and author († 1990)
• 1925 » Robert B. Rheault, American colonel († 2013)
• 1926 » Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host († 2011)
• 1928 » Andrew Sarris, American critic and educator († 2012)
• 1929 » Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1929 » William Orchard, Australian water polo player and psychiatrist († 2014)

• 1916 » Charles Taze Russell, American minister (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1874)
• 1918 » Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
• 1920 » Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian businessman (b. 1854)
• 1925 » Max Linder, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1925 » Mikhail Frunze, Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (b. 1885)
• 1926 » Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (b. 1874)
• 1929 » António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (b. 1877)
• 1931 » Octave Uzanne, French journalist and author (b. 1851)

• 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.
• 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.)
• 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.
• August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
• September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

The temperature on October 31, 1926 was between 0.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.