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• Christina (Stien) Jaarsma (80), Ermelo
• Bertha Caroline Wagonschutz (84), Englewood, Sarasota, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Francina Jaarsma (80), Ermelo
• Barbara van Oudheusden (87), Den Haag
• Anna Maria de Haan (92), Wormer
• Aplonia Anna den Haring (92), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alle Jongsma (62), Assen
• Adriana Cornelia Paulina van Schendel (94), Gilze en Rijen
• Cornelia Geertruida Paans (88), Werkendam
• Donald A. (Don) Clark (82)

• 1990 » Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player
• 1990 » Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner
• 1990 » Nacho, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Sean Keenan, Australian actor
• 1994 » Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer
• 1995 » Bryce Alford, American basketball player
• 1998 » Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer

• 2000 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
• 2003 » Ed Farhat, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
• 2003 » Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (b. 1907)
• 2005 » Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (b. 1973)
• 2006 » Jan Twardowski, Polish priest and poet (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Brent Liles, American bass player (b. 1963)
• 2008 » Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2008 » John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Lois Nettleton, American actress (b. 1927)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Claus-casimir
11. Tim
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Nick

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. Noa
15. Charlotte
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 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
• February 28 » Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947.
• March 8 » A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
• March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
• September 8 » NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

The temperature on January 18, 2004 was between 0.3 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.