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• Adrianus (Dick) Wassenaar, De Steeg, Rheden GD († 2005)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Havermans, Bergen op Zoom († 2007)
• Catharina Elisabeth Jacoba de Rijck, Sint Anthonis, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• anna maria crombeen, hontenisse († 1926)
• Anna Margaretha (Hermannus Hendriekus Greve) Heijne (Heijnen, Heine), Erica, 7887, Nederland († 2002)
• Antonius Aloysius van den Broek, Boekel († 2004)
• Anna Maria Zaal, Amsterdam {NH} († 1959)
• Anna Margaretha Heijnen, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2002)
• Ada Kortman, McBain, Richland, Missaukee, Michigan († 2007)
• Adriaan Jansen, polder Eierland (Texel) († 1998)

• Aloijsius Adrianus van de Pol (55), nijmegen
• Anna Jansiena POSTHUMA (66), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Albertus Adrianus Lestrade (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Afke Dijkstra (65), Apeldoorn
• Adriaantje Geelof (68), Harlingen
• Andries van der Pol (80), Wijk en Aalburg
• Aaltje Egberts SOER (71), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Anna Zimmermann
• Alouisius Adrianus van der Pol (55), Nijmegen
• Anna ZIMMERMAN

• 1923 » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist († 2014)
• 1923 » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
• 1924 » Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator († 1993)
• 1926 » A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2014)
• 1926 » James McCracken, American tenor and actor († 1988)
• 1926 » Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1927 » Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet († 2015)
• 1927 » Randall Garrett, American author and poet († 1987)
• 1928 » Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author († 1982)
• 1928 » Terry Carter, American actor, director, and producer

• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1936 » Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » George Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892)

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.
• 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.
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
• November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
• November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on December 16, 1926 was between 2.0 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.