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• Anne Marie Nuijten (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elly Jacoba Vlam (75), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Doug MELLEMA (42)
• Elizabeth Adriana (Bep) van MASTRICHT (83), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elisabeth Allegonda Johanna van Herpen (80), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Flora Wijk, van (82), Utrecht
• Door Wilms (80), Panningen
• Albertus Kruizenga (72), Middelstum
• Anna Christina van Jole (77), Schiedam
• Christina Francisca van Reeken (79), Haelen

• 1995 » Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
• 1995 » Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
• 1996 » Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
• 1996 » Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
• 1997 » Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Jeremy Olson
• 1999 » Andrea Buwalda
• 2000 » Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Indian actor
• 2001 » Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress
• 2002 » Elian Kerrniqi, Amore HEKSIII

• 2005 » Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (b. 1958)
• 2007 » Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908)
• 2007 » Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Lars
8. Stijn
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Jan
13. Ruben
14. Niels
15. Sam
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Maria
11. Anouk
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
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.
• May 13 » São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
• May 23 » Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
• November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
• November 10 » The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
• December 28 » War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
• December 30 » Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.

The temperature on April 5, 2006 was between -0.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.