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• Dirce Libanor, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2016)
• Fred Folkers († 1997)
• Appolonius Cornelis Kalkman, IJsselmonde († 2006)
• Florence Kathleen Pantle, Atchinson, Kansas († 1993)
• Fien Donders, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Christof Grimmius, Beerta, Reiderland, Groningen, Nederland († 2009)
• Celia Eijgendaal, Den Haag († 2019)
• Bernhard Joseph Hudepohl, Leiden († 2015)
• Christof Grimmius, Beerta, Groningen, Nederland († 2009)
• Adrianna Gertrude Bomgaars, Maurice, Sioux County, Iowa († 2015)

• Anna Cornelia van Amstel (82), Heemstede
• Abraham David van TIJN (61), Amsterdam
• Aart van Dijk (75), Langbroek
• Alida van GALEN (59), Rhoon, Zuid-Holland, PAYS-BAS
• Adrianus YPEREN, VAN (76), Rotterdam
• Prins (0), Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Elisabeth VETH (47), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Engelina Krens (69), den haag
• Alphonsus Lambertus de Wijs (82), Tilburg
• Aaltjen Kok (75), Zwolle

• 1926 » Doris Belack, American actress († 2011)
• 1927 » Tom Kennedy, American game show host and actor
• 1928 » Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel († 2014)
• 1928 » Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2017)
• 1931 » Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager († 2004)
• 1931 » Josephine Tewson, English actress
• 1931 » Robert Novak, American journalist and author († 2009)
• 1932 » Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 2003)
• 1933 » James Goldsmith, French-British businessman and politician († 1997)
• 1934 » Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
• 1936 » February 26 Incident:
• 1943 » Theodor Eicke, German general (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Sándor Szurmay, Minister of Defence of the Hungarian portion of Austria-Hungary (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1868)
• 1950 » Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Sabiha Kasimati, Albanian ichthyologist (b. 1912) executed with 20 others

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

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

• 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 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 7.9 million citizens.
• February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
• March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
• March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
• September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• October 17 » Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.

The temperature on February 26, 1931 was between 3.3 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.