About the day » Saturday February 4, 2006Calender converter

• Luca Dam († 2006)
• Helena Van de Velde, Antwerpen (B)

• Cornelis Berkhout (97)
• Albert Turksma (75), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Maria Kortekaas (62), Nederland den Haag
• Antonius Kusters (84), Venlo
• Carmela Micallef (99), Sydney, New South Wales, Australië
• Barbara Hindley (77), Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States
• Caroline Mary Ann Cairncross (95), Floridapark, Gauteng, ZA
• Annie Dumas (54)
• Angèle Verlent (91), Reet
• Anna Lee Truncale (79), San Rafael, Marin, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1983 » Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
• 1984 » Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer († 2013)
• 1986 » Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 » Maximilian Götz, German race car driver
• 1987 » Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer
• 1993 » Bae Noo-ri, South Korean actress
• 1998 » Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer

• 2002 » Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
• 2003 » Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algerian pharmacist and politician (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Ossie Davis, American actor, director, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Betty Friedan, American author and activist (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian-English poet and translator (b. 1959)
• 2007 » José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 2008 » Augusta Dabney, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Stefan Meller, Polish academic and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (b. 1942)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Stijn
8. Lars
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Ruben
13. Jan
14. Sam
15. Niels
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Anouk
11. Maria
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• March 21 » The social media site Twitter is founded.
• June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• August 22 » Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
• September 17 » An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
• September 17 » Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
• December 11 » Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.

The temperature on February 4, 2006 was between 1.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.