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• Cornelia Johanna Kuijlaars, Utrecht († 2011)
• Bellona Willemien Theresia Maas, Wamel († 2000)
• Adriana de Vet, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• Charles Otis Chuck Foster, Missouri City, Fort Bend, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• ADRIANUS GERARDUS DEKKER, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Alan Pearson Todd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania († 2007)
• Charlotte Rose McNeil, Lassen County, California, United States of America († 2018)
• cornelis arie steenken, schoten (haarlem) († 2004)
• Bellona Willemien Theresia Maas, Wamel, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2000)
• Dirk Bakker, Putten († 2014)

• Age Wassenaar (76), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Scheel (0), Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth de Bijl (76), Big Stone City, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Broedersz, Wervershoof,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoine Johannes Kamphuis (47), Raalte
• Antje Jansen (52), Groningen
• Antonina Heijliger (63), Nieuw-en Sint Joosland (Middelburg), Zeeland, Nederland
• Aalte de Joode (2), (GL) Herwijnen
• Lammers, Hilversum
• Alma Irene MEYER (34)

• 1924 » Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author († 2005)
• 1924 » Gazanfer Bilge, Turkish wrestler († 2008)
• 1925 » Alain Decaux, French historian and author († 2016)
• 1925 » Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer († 2016)
• 1925 » Quett Masire, Botswana politician, the former Vice-President of Botswana († 2017)
• 1925 » Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh († 1975)
• 1926 » Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author († 2015)
• 1927 » Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1928 » Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor († 2020)
• 1928 » Vera Rubin, American astronomer and academic († 2016)

• 1916 » William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1919 » Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1920 » Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)
• 1924 » Frank Frost Abbott, American author and scholar (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (b. 1864)
• 1930 » Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1932 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
• 1936 » Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist (b. 1882)
• 1941 » George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)

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 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
• April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 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.
• 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 July 23, 1926 was between 14.9 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.