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• Augistina Sportel (86), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Andries van Gilst (80), Bruinisse Zeeland, Nederland
• Dirk Alje Bruining van den Berg (82), Oudeschip
• Elisabeth Maria VAN DIJCK (98)
• Cornelia Oomen (87), Teteringen
• Christianus Johannes Maria Smits (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ernst Horst Walter Theis (74), Hofheim am Taunus, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Barend van Ginkel (69)
• Arend van Lohuizen (83), Heerde
• Eliza Arnoldus van Altena (87), Noordwijkerhout

• 1989 » Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
• 1990 » Clevid Dikamona, French footballer
• 1990 » Laura Ràfols, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player
• 1991 » Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1992 » Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast
• 1992 » Nampalys Mendy, French footballer
• 1993 » Marvin Grumann, German footballer
• 1993 » Tim Anderson, American baseball player
• 2004 » Alexandra Trusova, Russian figure skater

• 2005 » Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet and critic (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2006 » Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Rod Beck, American baseball player (b. 1968)
• 2008 » Arthur Chung, Guyanese surveyor and politician, 1st President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Claudio Capone, Italian-Scottish actor (b. 1952)
• 2008 » Marian Glinka, Polish actor and bodybuilder (b. 1943)
• 2009 » Ed McMahon, American game show host and announcer (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (b. 1952)
• 2009 » Raymond Berthiaume, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1931)

• 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 8 » Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
• 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.
• June 29 » Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• July 15 » Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
• November 8 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
• November 11 » Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

The temperature on June 23, 2006 was between 10.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.