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• Anna Johanna Eisenhauer (90)
• Adriaan Louis van den Brandt (71), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Geertruida Pieternella Riet (86), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hannah Erma Butler (85), Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Gaston Florent Van Drogenbroeck (87), Aalst
• Betty Riemersma (77), Grandville, Kent county, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Dorothy Ellen McDonald (72), Glen Cove, Texas
• Georges Mondou (91), Pierreville
• Hendrikus Johannes STOLLMEYER (85), VRIEZENVEEN
• Antje van der Sluis (84)

• 1988 » Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
• 1989 » Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
• 1989 » Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1989 » Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer
• 1990 » Seth Curry, American basketball player
• 1992 » Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Iván López, Spanish professional footballer
• 1994 » August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress († 2017)
• 1997 » Lil Yachty, American rapper and singer

• 2001 » Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Peter Maas, American journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
• 2003 » Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (b. 1944)
• 2005 » Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 2008 » John Russell, English-American author and critic (b. 1919)

1. Thomas
2. Tom
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Bas
7. Milan
8. Daniel
9. Tim
10. Ian
11. Lars
12. Niels
13. Sem
14. Max
15. Bram
16. Alexander

1. Emma
2. Alexia
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Floor
6. Julia
7. Fleur
8. Kierstin
9. Iris
10. Isa
11. Nienke
12. Lisa
13. Eva
14. Femke
15. Anouk
16. Felicia

• 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.
• March 3 » James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
• April 6 » Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• July 21 » July 2005 London bombings occur.
• July 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
• August 16 » West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
• December 30 » Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.

The temperature on August 23, 2005 was between 8.8 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.