About the day » Wednesday February 26, 1986Calender converter

• Puck Seijkens, Eindhoven († 1986)
• Kristof Delorge, Sint-Truiden, België († 2021)
• Katherine Michelle Raspante, Illinois († 1988)

• ALBERT THIJS (74), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Barendina VAN DE HAAR (77), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• ANNA KNUBBEN (84), Sittard
• Albertus Adrianus Josephus (Bart) van Engelen (74), Tilburg, Nederland
• Adinolfo Lucchesi-Palli (74)
• Alphonsus Maria de Vré (66), Nevada, V.S
• Aurora Lopez Robledo (73), Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States
• Alva M. Monroe (82), North Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Antje van Egten (97)
• Adriana van Schaffelaar (92)

• 1982 » Li Na, Chinese tennis player
• 1982 » Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer
• 1983 » Jerome Harrison, American football player
• 1983 » Pepe, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1984 » Beren Saat, Turkish actress
• 1984 » Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, forward
• 1984 » Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Fernando Llorente, Spanish international footballer, striker
• 1986 » Hannah Kearney, American skier
• 1989 » Gabriel Obertan, French footballer

• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1997 » David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)

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

1. Maria
2. Laura
3. Linda
4. Kim
5. Sanne
6. Jessica
7. Johanna
8. Marjolein
9. Jennifer
10. Charlotte
11. Anna
12. Amanda
13. Stephanie
14. Esther
15. Joyce
16. Sarah

• 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• January 25 » The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• February 8 » Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
• July 6 » Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
• October 3 » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
• November 29 » The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
• December 23 » Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

The temperature on February 26, 1986 was between -10.4 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -5.8 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.