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• Bernardus Droste (80), Raalte, 8101, Nederland
• Arthur Edwin Ronald Trenning (33), Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aad Helderman (73)
• Anna Maria Cornelia Louer (90), Tilburg
• Agnes Alene Townsley Horton (70), Clearfield, Davis County, Utah
• Anna Cornelia Mocking (94), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Droste (80)
• Billy Baxter Greene (78)
• Adrianus Arnoldus HELDERMAN (73), Poeldijk
• Adrianus de Moor (76), Roosendaal

• 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
• 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 » Jade Thirlwall, English singer
• 1994 » Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

• 1997 » Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)
• 2003 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)

1. Thomas
2. Tom
3. Robin
4. Max
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Justin
8. Jacob
9. Wouter
10. Rick
11. Lars
12. Jan
13. Daan
14. David
15. Ruben
16. Noah

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Maria
4. Julia
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Laura
8. Tessa
9. Sanne
10. Iris
11. Charlotte
12. Romy
13. Fleur
14. Merel
15. Anouk
16. Femke

• 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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
• April 19 » Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
• August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
• September 15 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
• September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
• October 7 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
• December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

The temperature on December 26, 2000 was between -4.6 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.