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• (82), Gent
• Anthonius Gerardus te Koppele (84), Emmeloord
• Annigjen (Annigje) Deinum (88), Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aleida Johanna Jacoba Stoverink (94), Groenlo (Gld
• Antonius Blommaert (64), Hulst, Nederland
• Adrianus Bosman (84), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Jansen
• Andries Moerman (74), Meppel
• Acsel Bosma (44)
• Albertje Abee (84), Muntendam

• 1987 » Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
• 1988 » Greg Hardy, American football player
• 1989 » Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
• 1990 » Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1993 » Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Harry Kane, English footballer
• 1993 » Moses Odubajo, English footballer
• 1995 » Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 » David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
• 2007 » Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Jim Johnson, American football player and coach (b. 1941)
• 2011 » Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (b. 1944)

• 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.
• August 31 » Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
• November 15 » Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
• November 21 » Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
• December 6 » NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
• December 11 » Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.

The temperature on July 28, 2006 was between 16.3 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.