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• Ans 't Hart († 2012)
• Antonius Henricus Baks, Barchem († 1998)
• Anne Marius (Marius) Post Uiterweer, Leiden († 2005)
• Eliecer Mejía Alvarez, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia († 2017)
• Anne Marius Post Uiterweer, Leiden († 2005)
• Evert Kasteel, Arnhem († 1997)
• Douglas Cyril Blanks, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia († 2015)
• Cornelia Helena Maria Mijnders, Melissant († 1989)
• Bastiaan Kouwenberg, Rotterdam († 1997)
• Cyril Engram Durrence, Tattnall County, Georgia († 2004)

• Annigje Morren (Moren) (85), Woerden
• Antje Jans Wiedema (86), Leeuwarden
• Anna Venhuizen (87), Warffum
• Anna Marjanna VAN DEURZEN (92), 3930 Hamont,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgie
• Agnes Maria Lange (64), Linden
• Antje Lykles Grouwstra (65), Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafke Jeppes Teensma (92), schiermonnikoog
• Arie Willem de Bruin (40), Rotterdam
• Antje Grouwstra (65), Idzega (FRL)
• Agnes Juliana Platvoet (13), Enschede

• 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.
• January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
• November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.

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.