* 1911 – Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor ( d. 2006 )

* 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( d. 2006 )

* 1950 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer ( Shocking Blue ) ( b. 1947 )

* 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer ( d. 2006 )

* 1938 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, the Dutch government formed a committee to investigate the TBS-system.

* 1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

From June 26 until December 22, 2006, two children, Ammar ( 12-13 ) and Sara ( 10-11 ), lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus because of a child custody dispute between the Dutch mother, supported by Dutch law and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the Syrian father, supported by Syrian law ( Syria is no participant of this convention ).

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

* 1930 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.

Since January 2006, the NATO International Security Assistance Force undertook combat duties from Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan, the NATO force chiefly made up of British, Canadian and Dutch forces ( and some smaller contributions from Denmark, Romania and Estonia and air support from Norway as well as air and artillery support from the U. S .) ( see the article Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006 ).

The Dutch team at the 2006 World ChampionshipsTwo teams of eight, whose total mass must not exceed a maximum weight as determined for the class, align themselves at the end of a rope approximately 10 centimetres in circumference.

In June 2006, two ministers from the Dutch government ( Sybilla Dekker and Piet Hein Donner ) proposed a plan to make squatting illegal.

** Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer ( d. 2006 )

* April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( died 2006 )

* October 13 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch football ( soccer ) player ( d. 2006 )

** Gerard Reve, Dutch writer ( d. 2006 )

** Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete ( d. 2006 )

** Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer ( d. 2006 )

* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

* 1923 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener ( b. 1925 )

* 1924 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet ( d. 2006 )

* 1929 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist ( d. 2006 )

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* March 12 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet ( d. 2006 )

** Leo Chiosso, Italian poet ( d. 2006 )

* The Swedish artist and poet Johannes Heldén made a poetic web-installation entitled The Prime Directive in 2006, located at the Danish virtual exhibition room for visual poetry, literature, and visual art, Afsnit P.

Adonis ( an Arabic transliteration of the same name, أدونيس ) is the pen name of a famous Syrian poet, Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, who was nominated more than once for a Nobel Prize for literature, including in 2006.

Fiennes returned to the theatre in 2006 to perform in the one-man play Unicorns, Almost about World War II poet Keith Douglas at the Old Vic.

* Constance Hunting ( 1925 – 2006 ), American poet

* David-Matthew Barnes, class of 2006 ; novelist, playwright, poet, and filmmaker.

* Flavours of Childhood: ( a piece co-written for the Radio 4 series First Taste with poet Sean o ' Brien ) Winner of the Glenfiddich Award, 2006.

In June 2006 the Australian Electoral Commission ( AEC ) announced that the new federal electorate in Queensland to be created at the 2007 federal election would be named Wright in honour of her life as a " poet and in the areas of arts, conservation and indigenous affairs in Queensland and Australia ".

* Frank Stella 1958 poet William Corbett writes about the exhibition titled Frank Stella 1958 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts February 4 – May 7, 2006

William Auld ( 6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006 ) was a Scottish poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto.

Next to numerous translated poems and some prose texts of other writers published in journals, she translated into Slovene language a book of poetry of Italian poet Michele Obit ( Leta na oknu, ZTT EST, Trieste, 2001, ISBN 88-7174-054-8 ), a selection of poetry of Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz for a book Vertikalna poezija ( Vertical Poetry-with her introduction, ŠZ, Ljubljana, 2006, ISBN 961-242-035-1 ), a book of Gao Xingjian ( Ribiška palica za starega očeta / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, 1986 – 1990, from French together with Drago Braco Rotar ) ( Didakta, Radovljica, 2001, ISBN 961-6363-62-X ), a book of poetry written by Lithuanian poet Neringa Abrutyte ( Izpoved, CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana, 2004, ISBN 961-6036-50-5 ) and a book of fairy-tails for kids by Lucy Coats ( 100 grških mitov za otroke / Atticus the Storyteller, 2004 ; MK, Ljubljana, 2004, reprinted in 2009, ISBN 978-86-11-16964-4.

* 2006: Editor and Translator of selected poems by the Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz, Vertikalna poezija, ( Knjižna zbirka Beletrina ).

Christiaan Karel Appel ( 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006 ) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet.

Irving Peter Layton, OC ( March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006 ) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet.