About the day » Monday March 20, 2006Calender converter

• Art Corstjens († 2006)
• Claudia Else Jane Davis, Baulkham Hills

• * Margaretha Matulessy (69), Boxtel
• Annette Martel
• Claude Mommers (73), Lisieux, 14100 Calvados, Basse Normandie, France
• Arie van GEFFEN (95), Ammerzoden
• Alexander John Kluth (77), Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, Wisconsin (USA)
• Anna Geertrui Koolhaas (88)
• Catherine Marcleana Reese (Lyston) (94), Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje (88), Rotterdam
• Bernard Van Vlasselaer (81), Leuven, Brabant, Belgium
• Anna Margaretha Mesman (84), Velp (Rheden) (GL)

• 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)

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.
• February 22 » At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
• April 17 » A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
• June 26 » Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
• October 28 » A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
• November 8 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
• 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 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.