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• Agatha Josephine Vanweert (94), Heusden-Zolder, België
• Albertje Dam (81)
• Beitske Dijk (84), -
• Dirk Hogenbirk (79), Huizen
• Aaltje Mollema (91), Noordwolde, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Christina Johanna Gesina Echtermeijer (76), Almelo, 7607, Nederland
• Bertha Theresia Vercruijsse (71), Haarlem,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Annigje Keddeman (71)
• Dirk van Loenen (91), Scherpenzeel
• Anneliese Artz (85), Essen (D)

• 1988 » Asher Allen, American football player
• 1988 » Greg Oden, American basketball player
• 1989 » Theo Robinson, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1990 » Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
• 1990 » Dean Whare, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Logic, American rapper
• 1990 » Phil Wang, British-Malaysian comedian
• 1991 » Stefan Kolb, German footballer
• 1996 » Joshua Ho-Sang, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Silento, American rapper, singer and songwriter

• 2003 » Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Billy May, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2005 » César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier (b. 1894)
• 2005 » Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2006 » Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academic and politician, Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security (b. 1941)
• 2007 » Abbé Pierre, French priest and activist (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Ngô Quang Trưởng, Vietnamese general (b. 1929)

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• April 6 » Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• May 10 » A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 60 feet from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
• July 26 » Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
• October 21 » Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
• October 29 » Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.
• November 30 » John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.

The temperature on January 22, 2005 was between -1.0 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.