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• Daan Theodorus Kloppenburg, Wehl
• Saenne Hulshof, Landgraaf (L)
• Yuran Corn Kruidbos

• Anna Catherine Brooks (89), Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Alphonsus Cornelis Maria van Beek (72), Baarle-Nassau
• August Cornelis de Geest (67), Hoorn
• Adriana Pannekoek (83), Ouwerkerk
• Cornelis Daniël van Rhijn (85), Haarlem
• Diane Elisa Julien Kerremans (43), Bornem
• Domicila Josephine "Doris" Smuszkiewicz (101), La Quinta, Riverside, California, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Hulsegge (81), Hardenberg
• Aartje Bunte (89), Harderwijk
• Berendina Geertruida Raatgerink (92), De Lutte, 7587, Nederland

• 1990 » Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player († 2012)
• 1991 » Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1991 » Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 » Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer
• 1991 » Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer
• 1991 » Srdjan Pejicic, Canadian/Bosnian basketball player
• 1991 » Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish bicycle racer
• 1992 » Aaron Judge, American baseball player
• 1994 » Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver

• 2003 » Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
• 2004 » Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2005 » Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (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.
• March 21 » The social media site Twitter is founded.
• May 17 » The aircraft carrier USSOriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
• 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 9 » At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
• December 18 » United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
• December 30 » Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.

The temperature on April 26, 2006 was between 7.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.