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• Luna OFFERMAN († 2005)
• Ella Christene Zoeteman, Tucson Arizona († 2005)
• Talitha Faith WINDEBANK († 2005)

• Alfred Lloyd Kruger (87), Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa
• Dale R Reiter (52)
• Akiena Bosboom (91), Purmerend
• Antonia Hendrina Luijten (89), Breda
• David Lee Noggle (66), Waterville, Lucas, Ohio
• Anneke Ravestein (71), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Eijgendaal (83)
• Elisabeth van den Bos (78)
• Arie Korevaart (80)
• aaltje wiegersma (90)

• 1990 » Torrey Craig, American basketball player
• 1991 » Declan Galbraith, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1992 » Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer
• 1993 » Isiah Koech, Kenyan runner
• 1993 » Young K, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1994 » M'Baye Niang, French footballer
• 1994 » Maudy Ayunda, Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter
• 1996 » Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer

• 2002 » Arthur Rowley, English footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2002 » George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1907)
• 2002 » Will Hoy, English race car driver (b. 1952)
• 2003 » Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927)
• 2008 » Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)
• 2008 » James Bevel, American minister and activist (b. 1936)

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

1. Emma
2. Alexia
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Floor
6. Julia
7. Fleur
8. Kierstin
9. Isa
10. Iris
11. Lisa
12. Nienke
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.
• June 21 » Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• July 23 » Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
• July 26 » Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
• August 15 » Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
• October 15 » A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.
• 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 December 19, 2005 was between 1.0 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.