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• Brenthe SEGERS, Bree,3960,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2007)

• Albert VINK (84), Rock Valley, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Hendrica Johanna Maria Kamp (74), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Luijckx (92), Breda
• Cornelia Blanken (70), (UT) Nigtevecht
• Christiaen Frans Jan Joseph Maria van Nispen tot Sevenaer (84)
• Arnolda Cornelia Petronella Westdijk (74), Rotterdam
• Agnes Deforche (75), Roeselare, België
• Catharina Petronella van Ham (86), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia van den Bosch (74), Duiven
• Bernard Herman Jozef Oosterman (74), Zwolle

• 1986 » Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1987 » Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 » Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013
• 1989 » Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet
• 1992 » Jeff Schlupp, German footballer
• 1994 » Reed Alexander, American actor
• 1996 » Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer
• 2002 » Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

• 2000 » Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Bola Ige, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Oyo State (b. 1930)
• 2004 » P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Charlie Drake, English actor (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Johnny Vincent, English footballer (b. 1947)
• 2006 » Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (b. 1952)
• 2007 » Michael Kidd, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
• 2007 » William Francis Ganong, Jr., American physiologist and academic (b. 1924)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Tim
11. Claus-casimir
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Jan

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Lotte
6. Isa
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Lisa
10. Chiara
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Charlotte
15. Noa
16. Anouk

• 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
• March 31 » Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
• June 21 » SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• November 8 » Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
• November 30 » Lion Air Flight 583 overshoots the runway while landing at Adisumarmo International Airport and crashes, killing 25 people.
• December 31 » The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670ft).

The temperature on December 23, 2004 was between 7.1 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.