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• Caroline (Carol) Evink (84), Prairie View Home, Sanborn, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anja Johanna Rutjens (65), Hasselt (B)
• Anna Regina Zeeuwe (88), Beverwijk
• Catharina Hendrika (Toos) Beekman (76)
• ....... Zuurmond (95), ........
• Catharina Elisabeth Josephina van der Meer (88), Heerlen
• Bettina Angelique Blokland (50), Krommenie
• Alma Edith ROCKLIFF (88), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Alexander Burgerhout (55), Waddinxveen
• Albert Wagner (75), Harborside Health Care Ctr., Swanton, Fulton Co., OH

• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
• 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor

• 2005 » Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
• 2005 » Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician and psychiatrist (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
• 2005 » William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
• 2006 » Mary Stolz, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Julia Carson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2008 » León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
• 2009 » Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian (b. 1909)
• 2009 » Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (b. 1918)

• 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 17 » The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
• February 2 » Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
• April 3 » Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
• June 26 » Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
• July 31 » Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
• August 23 » The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The temperature on December 15, 2007 was between -1.7 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.