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• Chris van 't Land (88), Mill, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bennie Visser (75), Didam
• Arnoldine Maria Theresia Johanna Nijkamp (69), Loon op Zand
• Dirk Johannes (Joop) Wessel (50), Rotterdam
• Anne Marie Nuijten (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Hendrika Karman (81), Hilversum
• "Marie" Sainte Armandine Angèle GENIN (91), Étrelles, 35109, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France
• Alain de Boissieu (91), Clamart, France
• Elly Jacoba Vlam (75), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Flora Wijk, van (82), Utrecht

• 1995 » Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
• 1995 » Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
• 1996 » Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
• 1996 » Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
• 1997 » Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Jeremy Olson
• 1999 » Andrea Buwalda
• 2000 » Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Indian actor
• 2001 » Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress
• 2002 » Elian Kerrniqi, Amore HEKSIII

• 2005 » Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (b. 1958)
• 2007 » Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908)
• 2007 » Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Stijn
8. Lars
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Jan
13. Ruben
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. 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.
• March 14 » The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
• March 20 » Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
• May 23 » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
• June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• August 22 » Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
• November 21 » Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.

The temperature on April 5, 2006 was between -0.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.