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• Denise van Ginkel († 2007)

• Catharina van den Berg (94)
• Carel Herman Felderhof (86), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Gertruda Tilmans (Tak Elsloo) (82), Geleen (L)
• Catherina Dingemanse (94), Goes, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Baltus Schuit (91), Naarden Noord-Holland
• Agnes Gertruda Tilmans (82), Geleen (Sittard-Geleen) Limburg, Nederland
• Catharina Dingemanse (94), Goes
• Arabelle Spencer-Churchill (58), St. Edmund's Cottages, Bove Town, Glastonbury, Somersetshire
• Annie Margueritte Trotter (103), Gore Bay, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada
• Ad Hoskam (83)

• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » JoJo, American singer and actress
• 1991 » Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer
• 1991 » Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
• 1991 » Jorginho, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
• 1993 » Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
• 1997 » De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
• 1997 » Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer

• 2005 » Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (b. 1912)
• 2008 » Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (b. 1925)
• 2009 » Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2009 » Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
• 2010 » James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
• 2010 » K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)

• 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 19 » Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
• February 3 » A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
• February 27 » The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
• March 14 » The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
• May 4 » Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
• December 27 » Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.

The temperature on December 20, 2007 was between -4.7 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.