About the day » Friday February 26, 1926Calender converter

• Cornelia De Groot († 2006)
• Beryl Jane BOON, Longford, Tasmania, Australia († 2008)
• Claude John HOFF, Oak Park, Illinois († 1998)
• Bernard Rudolf Speller, Barger-Compascuum, Emmen († 2005)
• Barbara June Howell, Verenigde Statn († 1997)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Maria Jongmans, Zierikzee († 1981)
• Betje Ensel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Arie de Vlaming, Hoenkoop († 2000)
• Anna Beeldens, Terneuzen, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1979)
• Anthonie Gerrit "Ton" Honig, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1937)

• Aaltje Assen (81), Doornspijk, Nederland
• Antonius Albertus van Hinsbergen (63), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Salomon Noach (73), Zutphen
• Aaltje Assen (81), Heusbeek gem. Doornspijk, NL
• Alberta Johanna Martinus Mensink (52), Winterswijk
• Adolf Lodewijk Diederik Maria Joseph Graaf van Limburg-Stirum (60), Elsene (Ixelles), Brussel
• Antonius Albertus van Hinsbergen (63), Nijmegen
• Aagje Beentjes (10), Haarlem
• Antonius Albertus van Hinsbergen (63), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Eijnden (25), Lierop,Noord-Brabant,Nederland

• 1922 » Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer and businessman († 2007)
• 1922 » Margaret Leighton, English actress († 1976)
• 1924 » Marc Bucci, American composer, lyricist, and dramatist († 2002)
• 1924 » Noboru Takeshita, Japanese soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Japan († 2000)
• 1925 » Everton Weekes, Barbadian cricketer and referee
• 1926 » Doris Belack, American actress († 2011)
• 1926 » Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer († 2015)
• 1927 » Tom Kennedy, American game show host and actor
• 1928 » Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel († 2014)
• 1928 » Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2017)

• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1936 » February 26 Incident:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)

• 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 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• 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.)
• June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
• 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.

The temperature on February 26, 1926 was between 0.6 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.