About the day » Wednesday May 26, 1926Calender converter

• Aldee Anthime PAQUIN, La Reine, Abitibi, Québec, Canada († 1977)
• de Koning, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1926)
• Albert Menkhorst, Laren, Gelderland, Nederland († 1996)
• Anna Regina Maria Zalmstra, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland († 1995)
• Arie Koren, Oudewater, Nederland († 1999)
• Nn Veldman, Rotterdam
• Adelbert Maria Droog, Roermond († 1999)
• Anna Regina Maria Ages Zalmstra, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1995)
• Oelen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1926)
• Antonie Frederik Kool, Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland

• (Stillborn) MEIJERING (0), Tynaarlo Drenthe Netherlands
• Allert JONKMANS (62), Warffum Groningen Netherlands
• Anthonij Geel van (94), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Barten Slingerland (84), Vlist
• Anna Theodora Josephina Horning (49), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Albertus Jansen (0), Rhenen
• Anna Regina HUYBRECHTS (85), Zichem
• Catherine Steiner (74), Decatur, Adams IN
• Auke de Vries (87), Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Boelhouwer van Beveren (68), Rotterdam

• 1923 » James Arness, American actor († 2011)
• 1923 » Roy Dotrice, English actor († 2017)
• 1925 » Alec McCowen, English actor († 2017)
• 1925 » Carmen Montejo, Cuban-Mexican actress († 2013)
• 1926 » Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader († 1991)
• 1927 » Jacques Bergerac, French actor and businessman († 2014)
• 1928 » Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and assisted suicide activist († 2011)
• 1929 » Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer
• 1929 » Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer († 2008)
• 1929 » J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian and academic († 2014)

• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1939 » Charles Horace Mayo, American physician, co-founded Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (b. 1864)
• 1943 » Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1944 » Christian Wirth, German SS officer (b. 1885)

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 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.)
• May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
• June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
• September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.

The temperature on May 26, 1926 was between 5.7 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.