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• ZEMMY MAAT, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Albert A. Kok (64)
• Antonio Sozzani (88), Milano, Italie
• Anna Catharina Genis (70), Spring Lake, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Casparus Petrus Beuk (81), Alphen aan den Rijn, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Berber Jelsma (89), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus van Egdom (79), Christchurch Nieuw Zeeland
• Cornelia Barbara Lamboo (86), Maastricht
• * Cornelia Barbara (Corry) Lamboo (86), Maastricht
• Casparus Petrus Beuk (81), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aukje Hommes (89), ,,, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
• 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• 1984 » Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
• 1985 » Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
• 1988 » Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
• 1988 » Luke Daniels, English footballer
• 1989 » Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 » Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 2000 » Kumar Ponnambalam, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Merlyn Rees, Welsh educator and politician, Home Secretary (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
• 2009 » Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
• 2010 » Willie Mitchell, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 2012 » Isaac Díaz Pardo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1920)

• 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• February 18 » Samjhauta Express bombings occurred around midnight in Diwana near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50mi) north of New Delhi, India.
• June 8 » Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MVPasha Bulker.
• June 30 » A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.
• October 22 » A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
• November 9 » The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
• December 11 » Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.

The temperature on January 5, 2007 was between 6.2 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.