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• Gerrit EKKELENKAMP, Noordoostelijke Polder († 2000)
• Hendrina Maria Rouw, Kinderdijk, Zuid Holland († 1947)
• Eddy Schenkenberg van Mierop, Bandoeng (Indonesië) († 2003)
• Adriana Klazina Vis († 2012)
• Geert Dokter († 1992)
• Gary Lee Vohs († 1978)
• Hiltje Terpstra, Oosterwierum († 1996)
• Johanna Pieternella van Dijk, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL († 2012)
• Ferry Klerkx († 2016)
• Ellie Theunissen, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland

• Adriaan van Slooten (76), Ede
• Antje Hendriks Weijer (82), Veendam
• Dirk Stoppelenburg (80)
• Adrianus van der Ende (60), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geertruid Johan-Gerrits van der Veen (69), Ubbergen
• Adrianus Okhuijsen (52), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha May Reynolds **** (50), Shelbina, Shelby, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Heesbeen (71), 's Hertogenbosch
• Charles Van Middel (51), Brugge
• CORNELIA JOHANNA ADRIANA VAN DER CORPUT (68), Oosterhout

• 1943 » Dori Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 » Alan Parker, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1944 » Judith Rees, English geographer and academic
• 1944 » Maureen Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1945 » Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security
• 1946 » Alison Steadman, English actress
• 1946 » Valerie Simpson, American singer-songwriter
• 1946 » Zhou Ji, Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education
• 1947 » Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager († 2007)
• 1949 » Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric

• 1921 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1930 » Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1945 » Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
• 1958 » Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
• 1966 » W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)

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 24 » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
• February 14 » The Bank of England is nationalized.
• May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
• May 4 » In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
• June 18 » Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
• July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.

The temperature on August 26, 1946 was between 9.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.