About the day » Wednesday May 26, 1982Calender converter

• Phoebe Helen SHEPHEARD, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia († 1982)
• Pascale Fabrini van Wijk, Leiderdorp, Nederland
• Benjamin James Theodore Winterfield, Hawarden (Sioux County) (Iowa) († 1996)

• Gaston Depoorter (90), Harper Woods, MI
• Bauke Roffel (78), langley britisch columbia canada, Canada
• Cornelia van Tilburg (78), Bergen op Zoom
• Catharina Alberdina Nieuwenhuijs (83)
• Alexia Crombez (85), Kortemark West-Vlaanderen België
• Albertje Luttjeboer (83), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arnold van Kruijsbergen (47), Dreumel
• Berend Ebel Veenhuizen (88), Groningen
• Clarence August DIRKSEN (83), Dubuque,Iowa,America
• Geertruida Paulina Antonia Maria Peek (74), Amsterdam

• 1981 » Anthony Ervin, American swimmer
• 1981 » Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
• 1981 » Isaac Slade, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1981 » Jason Manford, English actor, screenwriter, and television host
• 1981 » Robert Copeland, Australian footballer
• 1982 » Hasan Kabze, Turkish footballer
• 1982 » Sten Lassmann, Estonian pianist
• 1983 » Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
• 1983 » Henry Holland, English fashion designer
• 1983 » Nathan Merritt, Australian rugby league player

• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 » George Brent, Irish-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1995 » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Bart
11. Hendrik
12. Willem
13. Patrick
14. Erik
15. Thomas
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Johanna
5. Jessica
6. Kelly
7. Sarah
8. Marieke
9. Esther
10. Marjolein
11. Elisabeth
12. Ellen
13. Wendy
14. Chantal
15. Jennifer
16. Anna

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
• March 22 » NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• March 23 » Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• May 4 » Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMSSheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
• June 21 » John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• October 8 » Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
• December 13 » The 6.0 M_s  North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.

The temperature on May 26, 1982 was between 10.0 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 19.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.