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• Thijs Wouter Vollaard, Haarlem

• Adriana Godefrida van der Aart (73), Belfeld
• Cornelis van den Oever (97), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje van de Kolk (100), Doornspijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Carolus Alphonsus Turlinckx (77), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Franciscus van Herk (93), Eindhoven
• Annetje van de Kolk (100)
• Menting (83)
• Elisabeth Berkemeijer (51)
• Antonie Groothedde (71), Twello gem. Voorst Gld. Nederland
• Cornelis Laurentius van Zuijlen (75), Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1988 » Eggert Jónsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1988 » G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
• 1988 » Jack Hobbs, English footballer
• 1992 » Bogdan Bogdanović, Serbian basketball player
• 1992 » Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer
• 1993 » Jung Eun-ji, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer
• 1994 » Morgan Sanson, French footballer
• 1995 » Alīna Fjodorova, Latvian figure skater
• 1997 » Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer

• 2003 » Tony Jackson, English singer and bassist (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1922)
• 2004 » Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (b. 1906)
• 2005 » Chri$ Ca$h, American wrestler (b. 1982)
• 2006 » Ken Kearney, Australian rugby player (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Magdalen Nabb, English author (b. 1947)
• 2007 » Michael Deaver, American soldier and politician, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
• 2009 » Kim Dae-jung, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2009 » Robert Novak, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 2009 » Rose Friedman, Ukrainian-American economist and author (b. 1910)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Stijn
8. Lars
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Ruben
13. Jan
14. Sam
15. Niels
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Anouk
11. Maria
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• March 7 » The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
• August 14 » Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
• November 8 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
• November 11 » Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
• November 21 » Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
• December 18 » The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.

The temperature on August 18, 2006 was between 16.5 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.