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• Alida Siemone Kreijger (64), Barsingerhorn
• Béatrice de Moffarts (80), Bruxelles
• Catharina Wilhelmina Voeten (86)
• Antonia Levina den Hollander (84)
• Aloijsius Cornelis Johannes Snaphaan (79), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Franciscus Olde Damink (84), Hengelo
• Christiaan Eberhart Getrouw, .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Cornelis Nicoladus Gerardus Kleijn (74), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Derrick Wayne Holness (66), Jamaica, West Indies
• Dorothy Closser (82), Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa

• 1984 » Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1985 » Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 » Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1985 » Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 » Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1986 » Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1987 » Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer
• 1991 » Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
• 1992 » Tara Moore, British tennis player

• 2008 » Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and author (b. 1934)
• 2009 » John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1950)
• 2009 » Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (b. 1909)
• 2009 » Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2011 » Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (b. 1911)
• 2012 » Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
• 2012 » Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (b. 1954)
• 2012 » Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1944)
• 2012 » Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1944)
• 2012 » Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (b. 1938)

• 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• March 29 » Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
• May 5 » Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
• May 6 » In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
• July 28 » Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
• September 2 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
• November 23 » Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.

The temperature on August 6, 2010 was between 7.6 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.