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• Adriana Maria Bernarda Christiana Wouters (75), Tilburg
• Cornelis Johannes Jozefus Maria BOGERS (72), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dorothy Venenga (77), George Good Samaritan Center, George, Lyon County, Iowa
• Dirk STAM (82), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Franciscus Seegers (76), Breda
• Donald Marvin Gullickson (66), Lennox, Lincoln, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Theodorus Wilhelmus Joosten (55), Velp, Nederland
• Anne comtesse de Liedekerke (60), Etterbeek (Bruxelles)
• Caroline Margaret MONTAGU DOUGLAS SCOTT (76)
• Anna Radsma (79), ,,, Stiens, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1990 » Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
• 1990 » Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
• 1990 » Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
• 1990 » Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
• 1991 » Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
• 1992 » Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
• 1992 » Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
• 1993 » Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
• 2001 » Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer

• 2001 » Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli historian, general, and politician, Tourism Minister of Israel (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
• 2006 » Christopher Glenn, American journalist (b. 1938)
• 2006 » Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Joey Bishop, American actor and talk show host (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (b. 1939)
• 2007 » Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Tim
11. Claus-casimir
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. Chiara
10. Lisa
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.
• March 11 » Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
• March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
• April 3 » Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
• September 8 » NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
• 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.
• November 26 » The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.

The temperature on October 17, 2004 was between 6.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.