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• Levi Sion de Jong, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2008)

• Donald Thomas Virts (67), Hillsboro, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America
• Adriana Johanna Manders (80), Westerveld, Drenthe, Nederland
• Gerrit Zweers (53), Hardenberg
• Barbara Alrike Noordijk (81), Leimuiden
• Henderika Post (92), Maarssen
• Cecil Myron Bergman (86), Iowa Health Home Care Taylor House Hospice, Des Moines, Iowa
• Adriana Johanna Manders (80), Westerveld
• Grada Johanna Jansie (80), Arnhem, Nederland
• Adriana Wildeman (90), Barneveld
• Geraldina E. Blokland (85), Massachusetts, United States

• 1991 » James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
• 1991 » Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Bartosz Bereszyński, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Kurt Capewell, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast
• 1995 » Luke Shaw, English footballer
• 1996 » Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
• 1996 » Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
• 1997 » Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 2005 » John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, English businessman (b. 1917)
• 2007 » Robert Burås, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1975)
• 2007 » Stan Zemanek, Australian radio and television host (b. 1947)
• 2008 » Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 2008 » Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (b. 1955)
• 2010 » Harvey Pekar, American author and critic (b. 1939)
• 2010 » James P. Hogan, English-American author (b. 1941)
• 2010 » Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (b. 1922)
• 2010 » Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
• 2010 » Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (b. 1957)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Daan
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Noah
13. Thijs
14. Sam
15. Milan
16. Albert

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Sanneke
13. Fleur
14. Eva
15. Milou
16. Nina

• 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
• February 23 » A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
• May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
• June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
• July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
• August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
• September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.

The temperature on July 12, 2008 was between 11.6 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.