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• MADELEINE CELINE ELISE MAAT, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Doris Miller (83), Enfield, London, England, GB
• Annie Mutsaers (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Engelbertus Adrianus Johannes Kemmeren (68), Dongen
• Cornelia Johanna Petronella Baars (53), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Tiddo IDEMA (94), Doorwerth Gelderland Netherlands
• Huiskens
• Eelke Baron (75)
• Bernardus Turk (73), Boskamp, Overijssel, Nederland
• Elisabeth Plug (91), Katwijk aan Zee
• Albertus Tiddo Idema (94)

• 1989 » Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Emma Watson, English actress
• 1991 » Daiki Arioka, Japanese idol, singer, and actor
• 1991 » Javier Fernández López, Spanish figure skater
• 1992 » Jeremy McGovern, Australian rules football player
• 1994 » Brodie Grundy, Australian rules football player
• 1994 » Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian sprinter
• 1995 » Leander Dendoncker, Belgian footballer
• 1999 » Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
• 2001 » Shanti Dope, Filipino rapper

• 2000 » Edward Gorey, American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2002 » Byron White, American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Damon Knight, American author and critic (b. 1922)
• 2004 » Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese illustrator (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Brant Parker, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Krister Stendahl, Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)
• 2009 » László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 2009 » Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (b. 1947)

1. Thomas
2. Tom
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Bas
7. Milan
8. Daniel
9. Tim
10. Ian
11. Lars
12. Bram
13. Niels
14. Sem
15. Max
16. Alexander

1. Emma
2. Alexia
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Floor
6. Julia
7. Fleur
8. Kierstin
9. Isa
10. Iris
11. Lisa
12. Nienke
13. Eva
14. Femke
15. Anouk
16. Felicia

• 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 9 » Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
• January 29 » The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
• September 30 » Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
• October 21 » Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
• October 22 » Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
• October 30 » The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

The temperature on April 15, 2005 was between 7.0 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.