About the day » Saturday January 26, 2008Calender converter

• Art Verhey
• Charles Mora (39), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States
• Bernice Schrier (88)
• Adriana ( Jaantje) van Gurp (91)
• Alma Christine Buchheit (85), Perryville, Perry, Missouri, United States
• Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina (Zus) Oerlemans (82), Steenbergen(De Lindenburgh)
• Albertus Van Duijnhoven (85), Camperdown, Victoria, Australia
• Adriana( Jaantje) van Gurp (91), Nieuw-Vosmeer
• Arnold de Lange (60), Zuidlaren
• Bertha Champagne (79), Hasselt, België

• 1990 » Nina Zander, German tennis player
• 1990 » Peter Sagan, Slovak professional cyclist
• 1990 » Sergio Pérez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 » Tom Meechan, English footballer
• 1992 » Sasha Banks, American professional wrestler
• 1993 » Florian Thauvin, French footballer
• 1993 » Lana Clelland, Scottish footballer
• 1995 » Sione Katoa, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1997 » Gedion Zelalem, German-born American soccer player
• 2001 » Latalia Bevan, Welsh artistic gymnast

• 2003 » Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian and academic (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (b. 1942)
• 2004 » Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1917)
• 2007 » Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and designer (b. 1906)
• 2010 » Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (b. 1917)
• 2011 » Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
• 2011 » David Kato Kisule, Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist, considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement (b. 1964)
• 2012 » Roberto Mieres, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1924)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Daan
8. Ashton
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Noah
13. Thijs
14. Sam
15. Albert
16. Milan

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Sanneke
12. Fleur
13. Maria
14. Eva
15. Milou
16. Nina

• 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
• February 23 » A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
• June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
• June 11 » The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
• July 26 » Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
• September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
• September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

The temperature on January 26, 2008 was between 6.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.