About the day » Wednesday April 26, 2006Calender converter

• Saenne Hulshof, Landgraaf (L)
• Daan Theodorus Kloppenburg, Wehl

• Elisabeth-Johanna Buijs (85), Canada, Calgary
• Abraham van der Werf (84), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Christien Bartstra (91), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Petronella van den Broek (82), Breda
• Dina Sommeling (77), Bergen, Nederland
• August Cornelis de Geest (67), Hoorn
• Cornelis Anthonius (Cees) Krouwer (68)
• Elisabeth Lubbers (94)
• Ans van Sommeren (75), Veghel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Cecilia Kokkelkoren (92), Sassenheim

• 1990 » Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player († 2012)
• 1991 » Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1991 » Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 » Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer
• 1991 » Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer
• 1991 » Srdjan Pejicic, Canadian/Bosnian basketball player
• 1991 » Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish bicycle racer
• 1992 » Aaron Judge, American baseball player
• 1994 » Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver

• 2003 » Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
• 2004 » Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2005 » Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Stijn
8. Lars
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Ruben
13. Jan
14. Sam
15. Niels
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Anouk
11. Maria
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• May 21 » The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
• June 21 » Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
• July 9 » One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
• October 2 » Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
• December 18 » The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
• December 29 » The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.

The temperature on April 26, 2006 was between 7.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.