About the day » Thursday May 5, 2016Calender converter

• Gabrielle Dodonea Gockinga (84), Haarlem
• Dirk Terhenne (90)
• Hebeltje Booi (85), Drachten
• Gerardus Jacobus Henricus van NIELEN (79), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Janke van der Zwaag (90), Oegstgeest
• Jantje (Janny) de Jong (85), Drachten
• Charles Nicholas Long (75), Buffalo, Erie, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Ida NN (96), California
• Adrie van der Werff (90), Zutphen
• Hendrina Pieternella van der Vorm (95)

• 1988 » Adele, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
• 1989 » Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1991 » Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Loïck Landre, French footballer
• 1994 » Celeste, English singer
• 1998 » Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
• 1999 » Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
• 1999 » Nathan Chen, American figure skater

• 2012 » Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932)
• 2012 » Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916)
• 2012 » Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937)
• 2013 » Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937)
• 2013 » Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942)
• 2015 » Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935)
• 2017 » Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954)
• 2017 » Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953)

1. Lucas
2. Benjamin
3. Tijn
4. Jan
5. Max
6. Levi
7. Mats
8. Boaz
9. Jesse
10. Alexander
11. Oscar
12. Jacob
13. Thijs
14. Liam
15. Ruben
16. Noah

1. Emma
2. Sophie
3. Olivia
4. Charlotte
5. Nora
6. Eva
7. Mila
8. Isa
9. Zoë
10. Feline
11. Femke
12. Sara
13. Julia
14. Ilse
15. Lola
16. Anna

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 17.0 million citizens.
• April 22 » The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
• July 26 » The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
• September 19 » In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
• November 2 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
• December 19 » Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
• December 25 » A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.

The temperature on May 5, 2016 was between 2.9 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.