About the day » Sunday February 6, 2005Calender converter

• Abraham Jacobus Slaman (87), Gouda
• Darrell Everett de Groote (82), Kanawha, Hancock, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Angelina Cornelia Maria Janssen (88), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ella Erna Krampikowski (93), Haarlem, Nederland
• Ariën van Lent (90), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Frances Aliano (62), Longview, Cowlitz, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Edith Johanna van LITSENBURG (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• CORNELIA PLOEG (92), Scherpenzeel
• Cornelis Johannes Beentjes (77), Heilo
• Archibald Cary COOLIDGE (99)

• 1991 » Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 » Fei Yu, Chinese footballer
• 1991 » Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater
• 1991 » Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer
• 1992 » Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer
• 1993 » Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011
• 1993 » Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1994 » Charlie Heaton, British actor and musician
• 1995 » Leon Goretzka, German footballer
• 1995 » Sam McQueen, English footballer

• 2001 » Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (b. 1953)
• 2002 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and economist (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (b. 1913)
• 2007 » Frankie Laine, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1913)
• 2007 » Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Willye White, American runner and long jumper (b. 1939)
• 2008 » Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
• 2009 » James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)

• 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 18 » The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
• March 3 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
• April 6 » Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• April 9 » Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
• October 8 » The 7.6 M_w  Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
• November 9 » The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The temperature on February 6, 2005 was between -3.4 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.