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• Arie Kastelein (76), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Carol Lou Gransden (64), Michigan, United States
• Alice Faye Young (49), Marion Ohio
• Apolonia Johanna Jansen (89), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Lazet (99), Ochten, Gelderland, NL
• Cornelis Provoost (68), Wieringerwerf
• Anna Catharina Maria Touw (89), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Alberta Waijenberg (84)
• Elisabeth Leonarda Ens (64), Bormes-les-Mimosas
• Aaltje van der Zwaag (90), -

• 1990 » Tori Bowie, American athlete
• 1991 » Lee Sung-yeol, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » Ayame Gouriki, Japanese actress and singer
• 1992 » Blake Jenner, American actor and singer
• 1992 » Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter
• 1992 » Stephen Morris, American football player
• 1993 » Olivier Le Gac, French cyclist
• 1993 » Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
• 1995 » Sergey Sirotkin, Russian race car driver
• 1998 » Kevin Huerter, American basketball player

• 2002 » Edwin Louis Cole, American religious leader and author (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Pierre Poujade, French soldier and politician (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2005 » Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek trumpet player and composer (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Seán Purcell, Irish footballer (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2006 » Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (b. 1969) (Napalm Death)
• 2007 » Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
• 2009 » Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and poet (b. 1913)
• 2010 » Anton Geesink, Dutch martial artist (b. 1934)

• 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 14 » The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
• June 26 » Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
• July 15 » Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
• 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.
• November 23 » A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• 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 August 27, 2006 was between 10.8 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.