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• Ada Margaretha de Heus, Barneveld († 1990)
• Antonia Josephina Maria Veldkamp, Heeten (Raalte) († 2012)
• Jacobus Hendrikus Joseph (Jos) Rietbroek, Alkemade, gemeente Kaag en Braassem, Nederland († 2009)
• Antonius Cornelis Maria Aarts, Alphen en Riel († 1961)
• Berendina Maria Pasman, Gorssel († 1973)
• Hans Kötter, Zwolle, Nederland († 1994)
• Ada de Heus, Barneveld († 1990)
• James Rolf De Groen, Bandung, Indonesia († 2001)
• Jacob Dedelef Gustaaf (Guus) Groot, Purmerend († 2002)
• Jannie Kalkman († 1946)

• Aaltje Kuildert (74), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Sup (59), Loon op Zand
• Anna Dankers (0), Eindhoven
• Aaltje Jansen (65), Ermelo
• Aaltje Jansen (65), Ermelo
• * Wijnand Prins (62), Sliedrecht
• Aart Janszn van der Wouden (72), Berkenwoude
• Aart van Twillert (87), Bunschoten
• Berta Brok (83), Drunen
• Antje Everts (86), Groningen

• 1943 » Paul Cotton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Christopher Hope, South African author and poet
• 1944 » Ronald Lauder, American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Austria
• 1945 » Marta Kristen, Norwegian-American actress
• 1945 » Mitch Ryder, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » Peter Brock, Australian race car driver († 2006)
• 1946 » Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2016)
• 1946 » Colin Bell, English footballer
• 1947 » Sandie Shaw, English singer and psychotherapist
• 1948 » Sharyn McCrumb, American author

• 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)
• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
• January 10 » The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
• February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
• October 1 » The Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.
• October 13 » France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
• December 11 » The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
• December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

The temperature on February 26, 1946 was between -3.6 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.