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• Charles Edward Glover, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Antje van der Vaart, annapoulowna († 1978)
• Annechien de Groot, Delfzijl († 1995)
• aagje mug FRENKEL, rotterdam († 1942)
• Anna Jacoba Verhaegh, Beringe, Nederland († 2011)
• Andreas DHONDT, Nazareth, Nazareth-De Pinte, Province of East Flanders, Belgium († 1926)
• Ben J. Körver, Hoensbroek († 1965)
• Andries Post († 2013)
• Antje Koops, Exloerkijl, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 2025)
• Alida Jacoba Elisabeth Sminia, Haarlem

• Ann Cary Morris (78), Hereford, Herefordshire, England
• Anna Catharina Cornelia Vermeiren (0), Loenhout (B)
• Alfred Graaf van Boulay de La Meurthe (82)
• Alipio Monteiro de Carvalho (64)
• Arjen IJkema (80), Apeldoorn
• Clayton Sylvester SIMPSON (47), Forest, Hardin, Ohio, United States
• Adrianus Johannes Burgers (73), 's-Gravenhage
• Anne Frederiks PLUGER (71), Osceola Michigan U.S.A
• Johannes Adrianus Heijne (0), Geertruidenberg
• Arjen Minnes Ykema (79), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1922 » Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province († 2014)
• 1922 » Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer († 2004)
• 1924 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader († 1973)
• 1925 » Dickie Moore, American actor († 2015)
• 1925 » Stan Lopata, American baseball player († 2013)
• 1927 » Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
• 1928 » Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician († 2014)
• 1928 » Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist († 2013)
• 1928 » Robert Irwin, American painter and gardener
• 1929 » Harvey Schmidt, American composer and illustrator († 2018)

• 1903 » Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
• 1912 » Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (b. 1829)
• 1918 » George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1923 » Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1927 » Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
• 1942 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
• 1945 » Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (b. 1880)
• 1949 » Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (b. 1870)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
• August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

The temperature on September 12, 1926 was between 12.7 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.