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• Cornelis Adrianus (Cor) VERBREE (73), Gorinchem
• Aleida Suzanna Alink (89), Almelo, Overijssel, NL
• Auke DRAGT (72), Visalia, Tulare County, Californa, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Arnoldus Jozef Ros (69)
• Antoon Gerardus Majella Croonen (83), Nijmegen
• Berendina (Dina) Seinen (79), Zwolle, Nederland
• A.S(Aleida) Alink (89), Almelo
• Cornelis Jacobus Santbergen (81), Etten-Leur
• Elizabeth van der Sar (82), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Elisabeth J Bekkering- (91), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1987 » Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
• 1988 » Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
• 1991 » Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor
• 1993 » Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
• 1993 » Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder
• 1995 » McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
• 1996 » MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast
• 1999 » Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician
• 2000 » Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater

• 2003 » Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Paul Simon, American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (b. 1928)
• 2005 » György Sándor, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
• 2006 » Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1981)
• 2008 » Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
• 2008 » Yury Glazkov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
• 2009 » Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Daan
6. Lucas
7. Lars
8. Stijn
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. 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 4 » Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
• May 17 » The aircraft carrier USSOriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
• August 20 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
• September 29 » A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
• 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.
• December 5 » Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.

The temperature on December 9, 2006 was between 0.6 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.