About the day » Saturday May 15, 1926Calender converter

• Aart Kruis, Rotterdam († 1973)
• Celia Richardson, Aurelia, Cherokee County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Christina Maria van Egmond, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Angeline van Oort, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2020)
• Bernhard Ernst Overmann, Rheine/Bentlage († 1946)
• Aaltje Zaal, Boskoop († 1996)
• Allen Peter Westerbeke, Holland, WI (US) († 1996)
• Bouwe van der Meulen, Leeuwarden († 1985)
• Bergsma, Hoornsterzwaag († 1926)
• Alma Pernille Johanna Lund, Fuglaamoen, Trysil, Norge († 1959)

• Aleida Ottink (82), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hendrikus Voesten (6), Grubbenvorst, Li.NL.
• Nouwen (0), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Lagerweij (63), Ede, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hendrikus Voesten (0), Grubbenvorst
• Aart Lagerweij (63), Ede, Gelderland, NL
• Abraham Grandia (67)
• Catharina Sohia Gisberta Clara Wessels (81)
• Alberdina Venema (29), Rotterdam
• Bergsma (0), Hoornsterzwaag

• 1923 » John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor († 2003)
• 1923 » Richard Avedon, American sailor and photographer († 2004)
• 1924 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist († 1971)
• 1925 » Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1925 » Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia († 2014)
• 1925 » Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist († 2014)
• 1925 » Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman († 2008)
• 1926 » Anthony Shaffer, English author, playwright, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1926 » Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator († 2006)
• 1926 » Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter († 2016)

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

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 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.

The temperature on May 15, 1926 was between 5.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.