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• Aase Ingebjørg Tyldum (79), Namsos
• Dorothea Johanna Berendina Bartelds (85)
• Christina Johanna Simon (94), Nijkerk
• Bertha Clazina Pul (75), Zuid-Afrika
• Cornelia Clazina HONCOOP (77), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina Maria Van Ingen (94), Bennekom, Gelderland, NL
• Carol Lee Cooper (69), Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Maria Berbee (87), Lisse
• Betsy Wiggers (80), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Marinus Tak (79), Roosendaal

• 1997 » Łukasz Kozub, Polish volleyball player
• 1997 » Agustín Guiffrey, Argentinian footballer
• 1997 » Connor McGovern, American football player
• 1997 » Filip Forejtek, Czech skier
• 1997 » Izuchuckwu Anthony, Nigerian footballer
• 1997 » Kyle Benjamin, American race car driver
• 1997 » Marco Klepoch, Slovak figure skater
• 1997 » Michael Kelly, Scottish footballer
• 1997 » Sarthak Golui, Indian footballer
• 1997 » Takumi Kitamura, Japanese actor

• 2002 » Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet and educator (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
• 2006 » Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Marie Rudisill, American author (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Aleksandr Dedyushko, Belarusian-Russian actor (b. 1962)
• 2007 » Martin Meehan, PIRA volunteer and Irish republican politician (b. 1945)
• 2007 » Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)

• 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.
• January 21 » In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
• February 8 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
• 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 25 » The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
• June 30 » MTV Canada is rebranded as Razer
• July 26 » Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

The temperature on November 3, 2005 was between 13.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.