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• Grietje de Beer, Nes gem. Westdongeradeel († 2022)
• Braam († 1938)
• Cornelis Oosterveen, Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland († 1953)
• Adrianus Jan Mathijs Dingelhoff, Herveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 2006)
• Arie Leendert Bergwerff († 2000)
• Corrie Braam, Lisse († 1938)
• Helmut Stohldreier, Ochtrup, Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland († 2007)
• Ans Farjon, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Cornelis Martinus Armandus (Kees) van Wijk, Schipluiden, Nederland († 2017)
• Frederica Martina Burhenne, Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands († 2016)

• Anna Maria van den Eijnde (73), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia van den Driftakker (79), Stoutenburg
• Anneke Van HERWIJNEN (88), Ridderkerk
• Ådne Søyland (21)
• Alfred Malfait (70), Zwevegem, 8550, Kortrijk, West Vlaanderen
• Antoon Boomkamp (47), Hengelo
• Amarensje Bakker (89), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna HONINX (82), Kleine-Spouwen, 3740, Bilzen, Limburg, België
• Andries HARPE (20), Koudekerke
• Anna Hubertina Pleumeekers (92), Maastricht

• 1933 » James Goldsmith, French-British businessman and politician († 1997)
• 1934 » Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algerian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 » José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal († 2014)
• 1937 » Paul Dickson, American football player and coach († 2011)
• 1939 » Chuck Wepner, American professional boxer
• 1940 » Oldřich Kulhánek, Czech painter, illustrator, and stage designer († 2013)
• 1942 » Jozef Adamec, Slovak footballer and manager († 2018)
• 1943 » Bill Duke, American actor and director
• 1943 » Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
• 1943 » Paul Cotton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 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
• 1952 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1878)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Petronella
9. Catharina
10. Hendrika
11. Geertruida
12. Margaretha
13. Jacoba
14. Helena
15. Mary
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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
• March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
• October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

The temperature on February 26, 1938 was between 0.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.