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• Emiel Vandevijvere, Oostende

• Ceciele Jeanette (Ciel) Kahle (80), Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
• Andries Michiel Nicolaas (Dries) VAN DEN BROEKE (91), Amsterdam
• Bastiaantje Kooij (88)
• Arie Cornelis van der Ende (62), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Annie Myten (45), Leuven, 3000 België
• Beatrix Catharina Doornbos (69), Rotterdam
• Agatha Maria Cordes (90), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• An van Kemenade (79), Geldrop
• Cornelis Johannes Santegoets (81), Hilvarenbeek
• Ate Wieberdink (88), Waalre

• 1987 » Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Martellus Bennett, American football player
• 1988 » Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player
• 1988 » Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Neeskens Kebano, French-born Congolese international footballer
• 1993 » Jack Butland, English footballer
• 1995 » DaeSean Hamilton, American football player
• 1995 » Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
• 1995 » Zach LaVine, American basketball player
• 1997 » Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player

• 1998 » Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
• 2005 » Dave Allen, Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2006 » Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2010 » Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
• 2010 » Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)
• 2011 » Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (b. 1938)

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

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Anna
4. Sanne
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Maria
11. Anouk
12. Leonore
13. Lotte
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.
• January 12 » A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
• February 22 » At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
• August 20 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
• 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.
• December 18 » The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
• December 30 » Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.

The temperature on March 10, 2006 was between 3.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.