About the day » Saturday February 4, 2006Calender converter

• Luca Dam († 2006)
• Helena Van de Velde, Antwerpen (B)

• Arend Jetze Waterbolk (56), Delft
• Arsène Maria Isidore Vermeirsch (81), Antwerpen, België
• Cornelis Berkhout (97)
• Andreas Joseph (Andrees) Somers (87), Heerlerheide, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Tol (76)
• Allegonda Johanna Maria Dams (93), Helmond
• Anna Lee Truncale (79), San Rafael, Marin, California, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Orijnus (77), Den Helder
• Barton Gilbert MD (97), Laguna Hills, Orange, California, Verenigde Staten
• Connor Lourens (7), Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts (USA)

• 1983 » Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
• 1984 » Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer († 2013)
• 1986 » Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 » Maximilian Götz, German race car driver
• 1987 » Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer
• 1993 » Bae Noo-ri, South Korean actress
• 1998 » Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer

• 2002 » Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
• 2003 » Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algerian pharmacist and politician (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Ossie Davis, American actor, director, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Betty Friedan, American author and activist (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian-English poet and translator (b. 1959)
• 2007 » José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 2008 » Augusta Dabney, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Stefan Meller, Polish academic and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (b. 1942)

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.
• 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 15 » Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
• August 22 » Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
• September 17 » An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
• November 19 » Nintendo's first video game console with motion control, the Wii, is released.
• December 11 » The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

The temperature on February 4, 2006 was between 1.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.