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• Albert de Vries, Leeuwarden,Frysland,Netherlands († 1967)
• Jacobus Hendrikus Joseph (Jos) Rietbroek, Alkemade, gemeente Kaag en Braassem, Nederland († 2009)
• Augustinus Charles Hubertus Schuurmans, Rotterdam († 1946)
• Antonius Cornelis Maria Aarts, Alphen en Riel († 1961)
• Albert Leus, Schoot-Tessenderlo († 1976)
• Ada de Heus, Barneveld († 1990)
• Jacob Dedelef Gustaaf (Guus) Groot, Purmerend († 2002)
• guus Groot († 2002)
• Adriaan Frederik OUDT, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Marinus Sandee, Goes († 1983)

• Aaltje Kuildert (74), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Angelique Bernhardine Sinnige (80), Amsterdam
• Anna Catharina Wilhelmina Hubertina Walenberg (59), Roggel, Nederland
• Albert Esveld (87), Arnhem
• Aart Janszn van der Wouden (72), Berkenwoude
• Aart van Twillert (87), Bunschoten
• Anna Hendrika Evers (74), Den Haag
• Antoon van de Logt (77), Boxmeer
• Andreas Johannes Hendrikus Bax (48), Laren, Gemeente Laren, North Holland, Niederlande
• Aaltje Jansen (65), Ermelo

• 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. Jacobus
9. Robert
10. Peter
11. Jacob
12. Petrus
13. Adrianus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. John

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. Aaltje

• 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 3 » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
• February 22 » The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
• March 9 » Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
• April 17 » The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
• May 1 » The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
• September 24 » Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

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.