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• Yanick Henricus Julian Lieshout, Utrecht

• Anna Engelina Maria de Jong (73), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bertha Maria Brant (101), Tilburg
• Antonius Johannes Schraven (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aart Adrianus Cornelis Lokhorst (74), Amersfoort
• Adrianus Johannes Verdam (81), Noordoostpolder
• Anna Engelina Maria de Jong (73), Zeist,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dirck Veldhoen (82)
• Albert Morees (74), Amstelveen
• Christina Maria Cornelia de GROOT (91), Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsine Polleunis (81), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1990 » Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
• 1992 » Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model
• 1993 » Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1993 » Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
• 1999 » Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 2000 » Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2000 » Steven Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2002 » Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater

• 1999 » Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
• 1999 » Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
• 2001 » Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)
• 2008 » Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)
• 2009 » Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)

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. Jan

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.
• February 4 » Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
• February 27 » Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
• April 6 » Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
• June 8 » The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
• August 24 » 90 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
• November 7 » Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

The temperature on May 18, 2004 was between 6.5 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (72%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.