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• Anthonia GOOS, Velsen († 1944)
• Antoon van der Kaaij, Naaldwijk († 2004)
• Berend Eikenaar, Zalk en Veecaten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1996)
• Anna Hulshoff, Opeinde († 2016)
• Adrianus Paulus Marie Seelen, Gilze en Rijen († 1995)
• Annie Kortekaas († 2009)
• Alida Groen, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Anna Maria Cornelia de Vries, Moergestel († 2018)
• Bernard OLIVIER, Compiègne († 1975)
• Anna Maria Apolonia Strijk, Alkemade († 2018)

• Adrianus van Bergen (79), Dussen
• Anna Maria Edelkamp (59), Rheezerveen
• Anna Maria Lange (82), Barger-Oosterveld, Nederland
• Adrianus Broeders (5), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Marie Cnopius (73), Arnhem,Gemeente Arnhem,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Anna Margaretha Beems, Amsterdam
• Adrianus Bertus Verhoef (86), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ani-Pi Horomona (42), Tuahiwi, Waimakariri, Canterbury, New Zealand
• Adelaïde Jeanne Jacobine van de Watering (78), Den Haag
• Aaltje Schut (86), Enschede

• 1924 » Curtis Turner, American race car driver († 1970)
• 1924 » Peter Safar, Austrian physician and academic († 2003)
• 1924 » Raymond Barre, French economist and politician, Prime Minister of France († 2007)
• 1925 » Evelyn Berezin, American computer scientist and engineer († 2018)
• 1925 » Ned Miller, American country music singer and songwriter († 2016)
• 1925 » Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1926 » Jane Withers, American actress
• 1927 » Alvin Sargent, two-time Academy-Award-winning American screenwriter († 2019)
• 1927 » Thomas Hemsley, English baritone († 2013)
• 1928 » Hardy Krüger, German actor

• 1898 » Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist and academic (b. 1842)
• 1906 » Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar, academic, and philanthropist (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
• 1933 » Adelbert Ames, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1835)
• 1937 » Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Lionel Logue, Australian actor and therapist (b. 1880)

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 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
• August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
• October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

The temperature on April 12, 1926 was between 1.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.