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• Isabelle Roxane Christine d'Orléans, Paris

• Adriaantje Keuris (89), Utrecht
• Aaffina Alberdina Faber (90), 's-Gravenhage
• Augustinus Dominicus (Auguste) Champagne (81), Velm, België
• Antonius Johannes Toon van Westrop (88), Zaanstad
• Aaltje Wienen (97)
• Gerrit Jan Bruinink (71), Harderwijk
• Ester Berry (86), Hillsborough, San Mateo, California, Verenigde Staten
• Geessien Kwant (76), Haarlem
• Aaffiena Alberdina Faber (88), Den Haag
• Adriaan Johannes Marinus Goote (72), ZA

• 1986 » Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1986 » Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1988 » Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1990 » Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1992 » Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker
• 1995 » Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 » Luke Benward, American actor and singer
• 1997 » Morgan Lake, English athlete

• 2001 » Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933)
• 2005 » Ömer Kavur, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2005 » Martin Lings, English author and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian (b. 1910)
• 2008 » Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 2009 » Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)

• 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.
• February 1 » King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
• July 7 » A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
• August 15 » The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
• August 19 » The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
• October 12 » The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
• December 18 » The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.

The temperature on May 12, 2005 was between 0.4 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.