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• Alfred Wildeboer-Schut, Rotterdam († 1929)
• Antoon Christiaan Smit, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Else BASTIAANS, Batavia († 1982)
• Cor CHERET († 1977)
• Ellen Helene Vaijnes van Brakell Bruijs, de, Banjoewangi
• Bastiaan Kouwenberg, Rotterdam († 1997)
• Anne Marius (Marius) Post Uiterweer, Leiden († 2005)
• Franciscus de MOL, Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1928)
• Ernest Lee Jobe, Batesville, Independence, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 1986)
• Frits Pieters († 2001)

• Agnes Maria Lange (64), Linden
• Antonius Lebuinus Roesink (78), Diepenveen (Rande)
• Moeitje Maria Simmer (84)
• Addison Platt (64)
• * Maria Veenhof (64), Doorn
• Anna Marjanna VAN DEURZEN (92), 3930 Hamont,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgie
• Addie B Turner (64), Garrard, Kentucky, United States
• Antje Grouwstra (65), Idzega (FRL)
• Antje Lettinga (68), Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Adam Harms Ammersken (86), Veelerveen

• 1925 » Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster († 2014)
• 1926 » Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach († 2010)
• 1927 » Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist († 1994)
• 1928 » Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer and manager († 2006)
• 1928 » Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia († 2014)
• 1928 » Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer and politician († 2017)
• 1929 » Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer
• 1929 » Elizabeth Allen, American actress and singer († 2006)
• 1929 » Robert Faurisson, English-French author and academic († 2018)
• 1930 » Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist († 1944)

• 1900 » Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)
• 1907 » René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1908 » Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1910 » W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)
• 1912 » Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
• 1925 » Juan Vucetich, Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)
• 1939 » Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
• 1949 » Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1861)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
16. Helena

• 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 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 7.6 million citizens.
• March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
• June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
• December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

The temperature on January 25, 1928 was between 2.9 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.