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• Barbara Van Huizen (81), Groningen
• Adriaan Bouter (56)
• Annigje Gouderjaan (75), Renkum, Heteren, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Wilhelmina van der Ende (84), 's-Gravenzande
• Catharina Maria Petronella Huberta van Overdijk (68), Moergestel
• Aaltje Meijdam (82)
• Bud J. Edge (78), Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Maria Tschur (95), Purmerend
• Claude Molenkamp (90)
• Anna Maria Hubertina NIJSSEN (92), Alken, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie

• 1988 » Adele, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
• 1989 » Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1991 » Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Loïck Landre, French footballer
• 1994 » Celeste, English singer
• 1998 » Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
• 1999 » Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
• 1999 » Nathan Chen, American figure skater

• 2002 » George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)
• 2003 » Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927)
• 2008 » Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928)

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

1. Emma
2. Alexia
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Floor
6. Julia
7. Fleur
8. Kierstin
9. Iris
10. Isa
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.
• January 9 » Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
• January 18 » The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
• April 22 » Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
• April 25 » The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
• December 4 » Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
• December 5 » The 6.8 M_w  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.

The temperature on May 5, 2005 was between 5.0 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.