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• Nine Maartje Weesjes, Zutphen
• Claudia Else Jane Davis, Baulkham Hills

• Bryan Boris Anapuni Schimmelfennig (50), Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, Verenigde Staten
• Aukje de Boer (82)
• Albert Barmentloo (90), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernard Van Vlasselaer (81), Leuven, Brabant, Belgium
• Aart Verhaar (75), Kedichem (Leerdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bert van den Broek (65), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Mesman (84)
• Adalberto Reis Graeml (38)
• Aaltje Leijdens (88), Rotterdam
• Arie van GEFFEN (95), Ammerzoden

• 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1989 » Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• 1989 » Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1990 » Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 » Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 » Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player

• 2001 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2004 » Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Raynald Fréchette, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
• 2010 » Ai, American poet and academic (b. 1947)
• 2010 » Girija Prasad Koirala, Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2010 » Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920)

• 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 16 » Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
• May 12 » Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
• June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• August 14 » Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
• August 25 » Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
• December 6 » NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

The temperature on March 20, 2006 was between 0.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.