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• Jikke Carijn van de Zedde, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beaudine van der Graaf, Zoetermeer

• Cornelia W. (Cora) Mouw (94), USA
• Bayard Wickliffe Heath (61), Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria Steennis (62), Zandvoort (NL)
• Charlotte Grace Vice (91), Shelby, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States
• * Marinus de Haas (80), Blijham
• Adrianus Cornelis de Vroedt (71), Rotterdam
• Clarence Harms (94), Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa
• Anna Demaitre (88), Oostnieuwkerke
• Christina Korpel (90), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Christina Korpel (90), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1988 » Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
• 1989 » Alex Trimble, Irish singer
• 1989 » Nate Montana, American football player
• 1990 » Johan Le Bon, French cyclist
• 1991 » Aki Takajo, Japanese singer
• 1991 » Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter
• 1993 » Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player
• 1995 » Lil Tracy, American rapper
• 1997 » Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater

• 2005 » Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (b. 1937)
• 2006 » John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Lucilla Andrews, Egyptian-Scottish nurse and author (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Peter Norman, Australian runner (b. 1942)
• 2007 » M. N. Vijayan, Indian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2009 » Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist (b. 1917)
• 2009 » Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1921)
• 2010 » Ben Mondor, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1925)

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.
• March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
• May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
• July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
• September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
• September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
• October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

The temperature on October 3, 2008 was between 4.0 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.