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Died on Tuesday March 7, 2006



Born on March 7

Died on March 7
  • 2000 » Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
  • 2001 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
  • 2004 » Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
  • 2005 » Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
  • 2005 » John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
  • 2006 » Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
  • 2006 » Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)
  • 2007 » Ronnie Wells, American singer and educator (b. 1943)
  • 2012 » Ravi, Indian director and composer (b. 1926)
  • 2012 » Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)

Names that were popular for boys in 2006
  1. Jop
  2. Thijs
  3. Thomas
  4. Sem
  5. Lucas
  6. Daan
  7. Lars
  8. Stijn
  9. Tim
  10. Milan
  11. Jesse
  12. Jan
  13. Ruben
  14. Niels
  15. Miquel
  16. Sam
Names that were popular for girls in 2006
  1. Emma
  2. Fleur
  3. Sanne
  4. Anna
  5. Joanna
  6. Sophie
  7. Marit
  8. Julia
  9. Arieanna
  10. Maria
  11. Anouk
  12. Lotte
  13. Leonore
  14. Anne
  15. Iris
  16. Eva

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2006
  • 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.
  • January 4 » Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
  • January 16 » Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
  • May 13 » São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
  • June 18 » The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
  • August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
  • December 11 » The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
Weather March 7, 2006

The temperature on March 7, 2006 was between -2.5 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.

Source: KNMI