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• Kayla Jager

• Cor van Westen (70), Hoorn
• Anna Martina VAN MAARSCHALKERWEERD (91), Harmelen,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bjørg Strand (82), Bergen, Norge
• Cornelis Engelbertus Maria van Mosseveld (82), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Rijksen (89), Zeist
• Aaltje SCHILDER (54)
• Antonie Stomphorst (83), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aal Schilder (54)
• Bertha van Eijsden (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Schaap (76), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1992 » Joe Keery, American actor
• 1992 » Laura Kenny, English cyclist
• 1993 » Ben Davies, Welsh international footballer
• 1994 » Caspar Lee, British-South African Youtuber
• 1994 » Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer, and actor
• 1996 » Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer
• 1997 » Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
• 1998 » Ryan Newman, American actress
• 1999 » Jerry Jeudy, American football player

• 2001 » Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Josef Peters, German race car driver (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgian sculptor (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (b. 1906)
• 2004 » José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and producer (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 2006 » Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
• 2006 » Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi and author (b. 1914)
• 2008 » Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (b. 1921)

• 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.
• April 17 » A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
• May 12 » Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
• May 27 » The 6.4 M_w  Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
• July 9 » One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
• 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.
• December 5 » Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.

The temperature on April 24, 2006 was between 8.8 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.