About the day » Saturday July 26, 1969Calender converter

• Douwe Hette Thomaszn. de Jager, Wolvega, Weststellingwerf, Fryslân, Nederland († 1988)
• Nicole Verstraaten, Breda
• Rein WESSELING, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Ginneken, Breda (St.Laurensziekenhuis) († 1969)
• zoon van Ginneken, Breda (St. Laurensziekenhuis)
• Eric Gregory Kauffman († 2000)

• Clarence Leroy Stauffer (84), Winnebago, Faribault, Minnesota, United States
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Coenen (79), Horn
• Dora Willemina Hiddink (86), Wisch, Gelderland (NL.)
• Dorothea van der Ploeg (54), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ernestine Theodora Johanna barones van Heemstra (82), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Clarance L Stauffer (81), Winnebago, Faribault, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Ernestine Theodora Johanna van Heemstra (82), Den Haag, Nederland
• Antonio Felicio Busolin (75), Limeira, São Paulo, Brasil
• Christiaan Johannes Meijs (58), Voorburg
• Ebo Buiter (88), Finsterwolde

• 1967 » Jason Statham, English actor
• 1967 » Martin Baker, English organist and conductor
• 1967 » Tim Schafer, American video game designer, founded Double Fine Productions
• 1968 » Frédéric Diefenthal, French actor and director
• 1968 » Jim Naismith, Scottish biologist and academic
• 1968 » Olivia Williams, English actress
• 1969 » Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player and coach
• 1969 » Tanni Grey-Thompson, Welsh baroness and wheelchair racer
• 1971 » Chris Harrison, America television personality
• 1971 » Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer and coach

• 1952 » Eva Perón, Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
• 1953 » Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician, 135th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957)
• 1960 » Cedric Gibbons, British art director and production designer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
• 1970 » Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
• 1984 » Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
• 1984 » George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Edwin
9. Mark
10. Michael
11. Marcel
12. David
13. Pieter
14. Willem
15. Patrick
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Sandra
5. Elisabeth
6. Jolanda
7. Esther
8. Karin
9. Ingrid
10. Yvonne
11. Anna
12. Petra
13. Miranda
14. Cornelia
15. Anita
16. Catharina

• 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
• January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
• June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
• September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
• November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
• November 20 » Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
• December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.

The temperature on July 26, 1969 was between 16.8 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.