About the day » Thursday May 26, 1955Calender converter

• Betsy van der Weerd († 1973)
• Wilhelmus Peter Maria Petri, Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Grietje Baar († 1997)
• NN Aanstoot, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Gijsje van 't Land, Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Meindert Koffeman († 2014)
• Count Nikolaus of Revertera von Salandra († 1959)
• Enne Pieter Osinga, winkel († 2008)
• Kenneth Duane van Beek, Canton-South Dakota (USA) († 2020)
• Meindert Koffeman, Urk († 2014)

• arie bastiaan STEENBERGEN (80), rotterdam
• Anna-Cornelia van IerseL (86), Breda, N.Brabant
• Aldegonda Fleuren (58), Gennep, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonia Johanna Maria Spook (80), Zandvoort
• Berend Scheffer (63), Oldebroek
• Anna Cornelia van Iersel (86), Breda
• Bartha van Hoof (90), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• Anna Catharina Elzakkers (78), Halsteren
• Augustinus Johannes Jozeph Koenders (57), Utrecht
• Clark Robert Meyer (57), Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten

• 1953 » Don McAllister, English footballer and manager
• 1953 » Kay Hagan, American lawyer and politician († 2019)
• 1953 » Michael Portillo, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1954 » Alan Hollinghurst, English novelist, poet, short story writer, and translator
• 1954 » Denis Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Transport
• 1955 » Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese-American chef
• 1955 » Paul Stoddart, Australian businessman
• 1955 » Wesley Walker, American football player and educator
• 1956 » Fiona Shackleton, English lawyer
• 1956 » Neil Parish, English politician

• 1943 » Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (b. 1864)
• 1943 » Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1944 » Christian Wirth, German SS officer (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1951 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (b. 1880)
• 1954 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (b. 1900)
• 1955 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1959 » Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)

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

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

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
• April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
• May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
• June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
• December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 26, 1955 was between 5.3 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.