About the day » Thursday April 26, 1928Calender converter

• Catharina Cornelia Maria ((To) Ko√´ter, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland († 2015)
• Huiszoon, Vlissingen († 1928)
• Albert de VRIES, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1928)
• Adrianus Joannes Dankers, Breda († 2016)
• JAGER, Ter Apelkanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Willebrordus Gijsman, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Franciscus Nijmeijer, Almelo († 1992)
• Barend Huibert Staal, Putten († 1981)
• Allerdina Jantina Henderika Bazuin, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2024)
• Bernardus Josephus Maria van Mierlo, Tilburg Noord-Brabant, NL († 1931)

• Andrew Clicquennoi (59), USA
• Andreas Onclin (52), leeuwarden
• albert De Leeuw (77), Ruinerwold, Nederland
• Aaltje Roelofs Middelhof (76), Lonneker, Enschede, Nederland
• Adriaan Frederik van Keulen (41), Melbourne (Australië)
• Aaltje Middelhof (76), Noord Eschmarke (Lonneker)
• Sibbert Oenes de Vries (85), Terneuzen
• Anna Krueger (53), Ellsworth County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Aagje van der Tak (80), Papendrecht, Zuid Holland
• Anna Cornelia Hoogenboom (0)

• 1925 » Frank Hahn, British economist († 2013)
• 1925 » Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist († 2013)
• 1925 » Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur († 2015)
• 1925 » Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author († 2019)
• 1926 » Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator († 2003)
• 1927 » Granny Hamner, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1927 » Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1927 » Jack Douglas, English actor († 2008)
• 1929 » Richard Mitchell, American author and educator († 2002)
• 1930 » Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster

• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)

• 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 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
• June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
• October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
• December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

The temperature on April 26, 1928 was between 9.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.