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• Damiën Theo Kwakkel, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland

• Adrie Gijse (53), Bergschenhoek
• Celina de Oliveira Penteado (88), Brasil
• Anita Engels (49), Mechelen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adri Gijse (53), Bergschenhoek
• Donald Joseph Lugtig (78), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Bernardus Wilhelmus de Reus (87), Boxmeer Noord-Brabant Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Dimmers (79), Nijmegen
• Anne Hendriks Rinzema (88), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberta Perkins (68), Peterborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten
• Augusta Dierckx (83), Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium

• 1989 » Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian skier
• 1990 » Jean-Éric Vergne, French racing driver
• 1990 » Taylor Walker, Australian footballer
• 1991 » Alex Shibutani, American ice dancer
• 1993 » Alex Bowman, American race car driver
• 1993 » Daniel Norris, American baseball player
• 1994 » Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
• 1995 » Lewis Baker, English footballer
• 1996 » Mack Horton, Australian swimmer
• 1997 » Julius Ertlthaler, Austrian footballer

• 2004 » Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Jim Barker, American politician (b. 1935)
• 2005 » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk and educator (b. 1908)
• 2006 » Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Peter Law, Welsh politician and independent member of parliament (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Alan Ball Jr., English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2007 » Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
• 2007 » Bobby Pickett, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2008 » Humphrey Lyttelton, English trumpet player, composer, and radio host (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Bea Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1922)

• 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 1 » Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.
• 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 23 » A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
• April 12 » A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
• April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• September 27 » NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.

The temperature on April 25, 2007 was between 11.6 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.