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• Cornelis Verkaik, Rotterdam († 2012)
• Dick H Verheul, Pella, Marion County, Iowa († 2020)
• Elisa Louisa Wilhelmina (Els) Duijs, Venlo († 2021)
• gerardus johannes petrus van den Berg, leiden († 1989)
• Schutten, Zuna, gemeente Wierden († 1934)
• Helen Louise Thompson, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Sophia Hoogeveen, Noordwijk († 2014)
• Dina Voskamp, 's-Gravenzande († 2015)
• Gijsbert Boerhout, De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland († 1991)
• Gijsbert van Eck, Zaltbommel († 2009)

• Cecil Baring 3rd Baron Revelstoke (69), Marylebone, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
• Christiaan (Cors) Heemskerk (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adelheid Johanna Dalsheim (0), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adrianus Josephus du PONT (65), Geertruidenberg, 3580, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Smits (0), De Kwakel, Uithoorn
• Christina Juliana Bennenk (30), Alkmaar
• Cecil Baring (69)
• Ada Loretta COULTER (72), Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Adriana Hazeu (78), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Heemskerk-RK (78), Haarlem

• 1934 » Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster and actor
• 1934 » Charles Marowitz, American director, playwright, and critic († 2014)
• 1934 » Huey "Piano" Smith, American pianist and songwriter
• 1934 » Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and publisher († 2020)
• 1935 » Corrado Augias, Italian journalist and politician
• 1935 » Henry Jordan, American football player († 1977)
• 1935 » Paula Rego, Portuguese-born British visual artist
• 1936 » Sal Buscema, American illustrator
• 1937 » Francisco Gonzales, former 1960 Summer Olympics yachting team member and murderer
• 1937 » Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leonean soldier and politician, 2nd President of Sierra Leone († 2003)

• 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. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Jacob
15. Johan
16. Albert

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

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
• February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
• May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
• September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
• October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.

The temperature on January 26, 1934 was between -1.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.