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• Cornelis Franciscus Boots, Hoogkarspel, Drechterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Cornelia M. Zonneveld, Amsterdam († 1941)
• Hendrika Heek, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Nederland († 2019)
• Henkie Berens, Hengelo, 7550, Nederland († 1944)
• Hendrik Schlimback († 1989)
• Johannes Hermannus Stefinus Soppe, Steenwijksmoer (Coevorden) († 2020)
• Kees Tukker, Utrecht († 2002)
• Dennis Merrill Houghton († 2010)
• Catharina van Dongen, Hillegommerdijk, Haarlemmermeer († 1941)
• Garritjen Dina Theodora Wezinkhof († 2005)

• Adrianus Willebrordus Ammerlaan (67), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Jan Klein Egelink (71)
• Adrianus Marinus Cornelis Ooninckx (78), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria van de Kerkhof (49), Helmond
• Blaise, Nestor,Eugène TASSOU (56), Saulzoir,59227,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Antje Miltenburg (67), Utrecht
• Anthony De Yong (65), Adams, Gage County, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert Vlot (80), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland (Gem De Ronde Venen) Nederland
• Antonia Petronella van Rossum (50), Montfoort
• Ariaantje Smit (69), Wieringen, 1777, Nederland

• 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)
• 1942 » Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala

• 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)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Annie
14. Margaretha
15. Marie
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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• March 16 » First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
• April 9 » World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
• June 14 » Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
• November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
• November 24 » World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

The temperature on December 26, 1940 was between -2.2 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.