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• Diego Spijkerman, Deventer

• Adolf Charles DANNER (79)
• Cornelia Joanna Hollander (85), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Adrianus, Jacobus de Vries (81)
• Andreas Johannes van der Zwaard (92), Breda
• Arie OUWERKERK (82), Ridderkerk
• Adrianus Petrus (Arie) Ouwerkerk (82), Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel
• Bontje van der Gaast (94), Heerenveen
• Aaltje van de Streek (81), Zwolle, Overijssel, NL
• Christophe D. Booy (21)
• Carolyn Scholten (78), Chesterfield, St Louis County, Missouri (USA)

• 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
• 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
• 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
• 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
• 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress

• 2003 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
• 2004 » Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
• 2005 » Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 2007 » Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
• 2009 » Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1957)
• 2011 » Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)

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

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Maria
11. Anouk
12. Leonore
13. Lotte
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.
• February 19 » A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
• February 24 » Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
• March 22 » Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
• April 27 » Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
• June 21 » Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
• 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 4, 2006 was between 16.8 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.