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• Anna Catharina Francisca (Anna) Vliegen (87), Hasselt, België
• Albert Benedictuszn. Postma (78), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Pouwels (89), Stratford, Perth County, Ontario, Canada
• Agatha Bruinsma (73), Stiens, 9051, Nederland
• Albert Smid (61), Weende, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Ana Maria de Niemeyer Soares (82), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Cornelia Maria van der Valk (96), Poeldijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Beurskens (56), Horn, Limburg, The Netherlands
• Cornelia Maria van der Valk (96), Poeldijk, Nederland
• Catharina Sophia van Velzen (93)

• 1947 » Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968.
• 1947 » David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004.
• 1947 » Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street.
• 1948 » Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate.
• 1949 » Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter.
• 1954 » Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; twice a winner at the Tony Awards.
• 1954 » Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
• 1955 » Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons († 2015).
• 1956 » Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons.
• 1972 » Natalie Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor.

• 2006 » Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)
• 2009 » Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916)
• 2012 » Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (b. 1960)
• 2013 » Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)
• 2014 » Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (b. 1928)
• 2015 » Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author; prosecuting attorney in the Tate–LaBianca murders case (b. 1934)
• 2016 » Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (b. 1926)
• 2016 » Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (b. 1931)

• 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, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
• June 11 » More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
• June 22 » Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
• July 12 » A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
• September 6 » Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
• October 19 » A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
• November 7 » An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

The temperature on June 6, 2012 was between 9.8 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 9.0 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.