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• Ellis McKinley Benton Jr († 1992)
• * Dirk Hakkenberg, Bodegraven († 1994)
• Betsy Berndine Oude Engberink, Borne († 2001)
• Cornelia Lodewegen, Illinois (USA) († 2019)
• Dina Karsten, Meppel, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1929)
• andries hugo VINK, greup († 1972)
• Aaltje Zandhuis, Oudeschoot, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 2017)
• Christiaan Bosman, Wageningen († 1945)
• Esther Cohen, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1943)
• Derk Engelbertus Horstman, Twekkelo († 2002)

• Allen Gregory Curtsinger (75)
• Amy L. Kniphuisen (56)
• Albert Hendriksz Keijzer (90), Zaandijk
• Albertus Henricus van de LIEFVOORT (55), Arnhem
• Catharina Kok (73), Harmelen, Woerden
• Antonia Christina Zegwaard (69), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Zeeman (83), Monster
• Arnoldina VAN GESTEL (78), Deurne,North-Brabant,Netherlands
• Antonia Elisabeth Kregting (74), Duiven
• Antonetta van Wijland (82), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1925 » David Jenkins, English bishop and theologian († 2016)
• 1925 » Joan Leslie, American actress († 2015)
• 1925 » Paul Newman, American actor, activist, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own († 2008)
• 1926 » Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and scholar († 2013)
• 1926 » Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., American architect and businessman, co-founded the Sea Pines Company († 2014)
• 1927 » Bob Nieman, American baseball player and scout († 1985)
• 1927 » Hubert Schieth, German footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1927 » José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras († 2005)
• 1928 » Roger Vadim, French actor and director († 2000)
• 1929 » Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator

• 1926 » John Flannagan, American priest and academic (b. 1860)
• 1932 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861)
• 1942 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
• 1943 » Harry H. Laughlin, American sociologist and eugenicist (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1884)
• 1946 » Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (b. 1868)
• 1947 » Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (b. 1898)
• 1948 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist (born 1876)
• 1948 » Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1882)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Margaretha
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
• May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
• June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

The temperature on January 26, 1929 was between -5.7 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.