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• Luuk Hendrik Carel Westdijk, Dordrecht
• Lars Pollentier, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, België

• Dirk Oskam (82), Federal Way, King County, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Bernhard Jänen (70), Meppen
• Bernard Siewold de Jong (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• David Eugene FOSTER (66)
• Bernhard Jänen (70), Meppen Emsland
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Hartsink (47), Amersfoort
• Annigje Hogendoorn (81)
• Catharina Anna Cornelia Gerarde Maria Brands (59), drimmelen
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• Bruce Allyn WYNN (57), Rock Island Rock Island County Illinois U.S.A

• 1988 » Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
• 1988 » Markéta Irglová, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1989 » Angelababy, Chinese actress
• 1989 » Carlos Dunlap, American football player
• 1989 » Charles Jenkins, American basketball player
• 1989 » Kevin Proctor, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
• 1994 » Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1999 » Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player

• 2003 » Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian sergeant (b. 1982)
• 2004 » Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and critic (b. 1917)
• 2007 » Billy Thorpe, English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1946)
• 2007 » Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-English businessman, founded the Forte Group (b. 1908)
• 2008 » Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-American engineer and businessman (b. 1904)

• 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.
• February 16 » The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
• February 24 » Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
• 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.
• June 3 » The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
• August 22 » Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

The temperature on February 28, 2006 was between -0.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 9.3 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.