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• Henry baron van der Straten Waillet, Conneux, Namur († 2016)
• Anna Marie Therese Paula -Annie- NICOLAI, Sint-Truiden,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgi († 2018)
• Catharina Magdalena de Graaf, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Ivan Neal Butler, Newton, Harvey, Kansas, United States († 1978)
• Donald Meeks († 1990)
• Gerrit Cornelis Wulffraat, Rotterdam († 2017)
• Doodgeboren zoon van Agthoven, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Antoon de Beer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Bouwmans, Odiliapeel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Franciscus Joannes van der Flaes, Baarle-Nassau († 1939)

• Arij Rietdijk (84), Oostvoorne
• Barteld Willem van Dijken (16), Houwerzijl, gem. Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Alle Jans Wagenaar (65), Siegerswoude, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Christina Hendrika Femer (47), Enkhuizen
• Arend Roskam (88), Vierpolders, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Roskam (88), Hellevoetsluis
• Anneke HELDEN, van (80), Wijk en Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Soeters (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Timmermans (69), Hengelo, Ov, Nederland
• Annie Louisa Wiegard (74)

• 1937 » John Horton Conway, English mathematician, known for Conway's Game of Life († 2020)
• 1938 » Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1938 » Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 » Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1938 » Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author († 2013)
• 1939 » Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1939 » Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 » Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 » Ray Sadecki, American baseball player († 2014)
• 1941 » Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter († 2006)

• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
• 1959 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1966 » Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• March 2 » Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
• March 22 » Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
• June 17 » Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
• August 25 » The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
• September 1 » Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).

The temperature on December 26, 1939 was between -1.6 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.