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• Blonnie Mae Guthrie (87), Taylor Extended Care, Sea Level, Carteret County, North Carolina
• Anne Pol (72), Nieuw-Dordrecht
• Edward Irvin Corey (82), South Sioux City, Dakota, Nebraska, United States
• Catharina Wesselina Cabri (60), Zoetermeer, Nederland
• Annigje Kleiman (94), Elim
• ? ? (85)
• "Sabine" Marie Louise Mariam de Martimprey (61)
• Dorothy M Goecke (86), Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
• Diny Huijser (78), Borne, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Wesselina Cabri (60), Zoetermeer, Nederland

• 1989 » Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 » Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
• 1991 » Emre Colak, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
• 1992 » Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
• 1992 » Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1993 » Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
• 1996 » Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
• 1998 » Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

• 2002 » Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
• 2008 » Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
• 2009 » Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Lucy Gordon, American actress and model (b. 1980)
• 2009 » Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 2011 » Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
• 2012 » Leela Dube, Indian anthropologist and scholar (b. 1923)

• 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.
• January 19 » Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
• February 3 » A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
• April 11 » Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
• April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• September 11 » Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
• November 5 » China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.

The temperature on May 20, 2007 was between 5.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.