About the day » Monday February 1, 1926Calender converter

• Adriana Sack, Veen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1926)
• Antje (Annie) Bakker, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Johannes ter Velde († 2013)
• Antoine Jean Ghislaine (Jean) Vanvinckenroye, Kerniel, België († 2011)
• Antonius Adrianus Pelkmans, Oosterhout
• Alberdina de Jonge, Avereest (Overijssel) († 1926)
• Augustus Otto Hewett, Lockwoods Folly Twp., Brunswick County, North Carolina († 1962)
• Catharina Maria Mobron, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1945)
• Arie VAN DEN BROEK, Doetinchem, 1313, Gelderland, Nederland († 1986)
• Augusta Marie (Guus) van Emmerloot, Arnhem, GLD, Nederland († 2020)

• Alexander Kentie (81), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anne van der Heide (28), Groningen
• de Graauw (0), Zevenbergen
• Antina op de Dijk (60), Muntendam, Gemeente Menterwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Barbara Maria Huyzentruyt, Izegem
• Antonia Theodora Gerdina Meijer (51), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Alegonda Creemers (26), Maastricht (Limburg)
• Antonia Theodora Gerdina Meijer (51), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina van de Kuinder (0), Hilversum
• Anna Maria den Hollander (56), Leiden

• 1921 » Teresa Mattei, Italian feminist partisan and politician († 2013)
• 1922 » Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress († 2004)
• 1923 » Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness († 2008)
• 1924 » Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli footballer, coach, and manager († 2012)
• 1924 » Richard Hooker, American novelist († 1997)
• 1927 » Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic († 2014)
• 1928 » Sam Edwards, Welsh physicist and academic († 2015)
• 1928 » Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American academic and politician († 2008)
• 1930 » Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Indian-Bangladeshi general and politician, 10th President of Bangladesh († 2019)
• 1930 » Shahabuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi judge and politician, 12th President of Bangladesh

• 1903 » Sir George Stokes, Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858)
• 1908 » Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1922 » William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
• 1928 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
• 1940 » Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)

• 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.
• 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 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on February 1, 1926 was between 3.8 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.