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• Matthijs Sleutjes, Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• suus verheijen, weert

• Donald Thomas Swann (68), Del Rio, Val Verde, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Franciscus Adrianus Verhoeven (82), Gilze, Gilze en Rijen
• Eliza Geurts (92), Lanaken, België
• Dirk Wesselsz (92), Amsterdam
• Clarence C. VERDUIN (81), Litchville, Barnes, North Dakota, United States of America
• Anna Antonetta Mullenders (96)
• Anna Maria van Helvert (94), Gilze en Rijen
• Catharina Johanna Schoormans (87), Veldhoven
• Bernard Frederic Theodore OSTERRIETH (72), Kapellen
• Derk Jan(Dick) Dalhuisen (54), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1992 » Bill Arnold, American ice hockey player
• 1992 » Josh Papalii, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Willson Contreras, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1993 » Debby Ryan, American actress and singer
• 1993 » Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
• 1993 » Siim-Tanel Sammelselg, Estonian ski jumper
• 1993 » Stefan Kraft, Austrian ski jumper
• 1993 » Tones and I, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Łukasz Moneta, Polish footballer
• 1997 » Reimis Smith, Australian rugby league player

• 2000 » Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
• 2000 » Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2001 » Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (b. 1939)
• 2002 » Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and author (b. 1925)
• 2002 » Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2005 » Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (b. 1921)
• 2005 » George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
• 2008 » Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)

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 » Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
• January 21 » NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
• May 15 » Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End F.C with the right to claim the title "The Invincibles".
• July 16 » Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
• October 14 » MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.
• 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 May 13, 2004 was between 8.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.