About the day » Saturday May 26, 1990Calender converter

• A van Halder († 1990)
• lieke verber, helden-beringe
• Andrea van Beelen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Eline Dijkshoorn, Pijnacker, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1998)
• Caroline de Canniere, Leuven

• Aaltje Booij (83), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Engel (81), 's Gravenhage
• Adriaan Tolhuijs (86), Scherzingen of Schuzingen (Zw)
• Catharina Maria Bruijn (86)
• Constant Swens (70), Antwerpen / Anvers, België
• Antoine Perrenet (66), 's-Gravenhage
• Barellina Douwes (64), -
• Anna Gubina Arends (61), Ijmuiden
• Catharina Maria Kordes (84), Amsterdam
• Edward Henry Fell (79), Good Samaritan

• 1987 » Olcay Şahan, Turkish footballer
• 1988 » Andrea Catellani, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Damian Williams, American football player
• 1988 » Dani Samuels, Australian discus thrower
• 1988 » Joel Selwood, Australian footballer
• 1988 » Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
• 1988 » Will Chambers, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Paula Findlay, Canadian triathlete
• 1991 » Ah Young, South Korean singer and actress
• 1992 » Curtis Rona, New Zealand rugby league player

• 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)
• 1997 » Ralph Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
• 1999 » Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor and philanthropist (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (b. 1898)
• 2001 » Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2001 » Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)

• 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
• February 11 » Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
• February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
• March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
• June 20 » Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
• October 13 » Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
• November 5 » Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

The temperature on May 26, 1990 was between 1.5 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.