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• Art Corstjens († 2006)
• Nine Maartje Weesjes, Zutphen
• Claudia Else Jane Davis, Baulkham Hills

• Clarence A Cordes (84), Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, United States of America
• Aaltje Leijdens (88), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Catherine Marcleana Reese (Lyston) (94), Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Wybes Vijver (91), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Amalia Elisabeth Theresia Meijll (89), Roosendaal
• Aart Verhaar (75), Kedichem (Leerdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Geertrui Koolhaas (88)
• Aukje de Boer (82)
• Egbertje Hooiveld (89)
• Alexander John Kluth (77), Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, Wisconsin (USA)

• 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1989 » Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• 1989 » Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1990 » Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 » Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 » Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player

• 2001 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2004 » Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Raynald Fréchette, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
• 2010 » Ai, American poet and academic (b. 1947)
• 2010 » Girija Prasad Koirala, Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2010 » Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920)

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 11 » Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
• May 27 » The 6.4 M_w  Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
• June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• July 4 » Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
• July 12 » The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
• November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.

The temperature on March 20, 2006 was between 0.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.