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• Latoya Zantvoort, Hoofddorp († 2006)
• Zeno VROOMEN, Oostende (B) († 2006)

• Clarence Frieling (85), Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Betty Pleunis (79)
• anna maria (an) lenders (88), helden-panningen (vincent depaul)
• Cornelia Aria van Beest (82)
• Dina Willemina Ebbers (78), Zutphen
• André Georges Julien Couckuyt (79), Vilvoorde, VL-BR, B
• Adrianus Johannes Dobbe (84), Hoofddorp
• Ellechien Roelfsema (95), Ten Boer
• Cornelis Gerardus Seelemeijer (85), Den Bosch
• Anna Maria Lenders (88), Panningen

• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
• 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor

• 2003 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan educator and politician, Speaker of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
• 2005 » Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician and psychiatrist (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
• 2005 » William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
• 2006 » Mary Stolz, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Julia Carson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2008 » León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)

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

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Maria
10. Arieanna
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.
• May 23 » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
• 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.
• July 15 » Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
• August 4 » A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
• August 27 » Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

The temperature on December 15, 2006 was between 4.9 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.