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• Aagje de Jong (96), Schiedam
• Antoon Maria Gerardus Kuijpers (73), Dirksland
• Andreas Petrus Maria Ligthart (56), Heerhugowaard
• Gary A. Bailey (50), West Des Moines, Iowa, VS
• Fennetje Mulder (74), Elspeet (Nunspeet)
• Elizabeth Joanna Theresia van Riel (73), Tilburg
• Clement De Cock (84), Herdersem
• Andreas Hoogeveen (93), Amsterdam
• Deloras I Almy (85), Hemlock, Saginaw, MI
• Cornelis van Egdom (91)

• 1992 » Cara Delevingne, English model and actress
• 1992 » Isabella Escobar, Guatemalan tennis player
• 1992 » Jacob Loko, Australian rugby player
• 1992 » Teo Gheorghiu, Swiss pianist and actor
• 1993 » Ewa Farna, Czech singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Luna, South Korean singer, actress and presenter
• 1996 » Julio Urías, Mexican baseball player
• 1998 » Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
• 1999 » Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer
• 2000 » Tristan Charpentier, French racing driver

• 2004 » Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2005 » John Loder, English sound engineer and producer, founded Southern Studios (b. 1946)
• 2006 » Victoria Gray Adams, American civil rights activist (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Mike Wieringo, American author and illustrator (b. 1963)
• 2008 » Christie Allen, English-Australian singer (b. 1954)
• 2008 » Helge Hagerup, Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist (b. 1933)
• 2009 » Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2010 » Guido de Marco, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
• 2010 » Isaac Bonewits, American Druid, author, and activist; founded Ár nDraíocht Féin (b. 1949)

1. Thomas
2. Stijn
3. Ruben
4. Lucas
5. Jan
6. Daan
7. Lars
8. Tim
9. Levi
10. Thijs
11. Sem
12. Jasper
13. Milan
14. Jesse
15. Max
16. Sam

1. Ariane
2. Lisa
3. Emma
4. Lynn
5. Lotte
6. Eva
7. Anna
8. Sophie
9. Tessa
10. Roxanna
11. Anne
12. Isa
13. Sanne
14. Charlotte
15. Amber
16. Cathelijne

• 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 10 » A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
• April 27 » Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
• June 26 » Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
• September 20 » Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
• November 7 » Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
• December 5 » Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills eight people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.

The temperature on August 12, 2007 was between 8.3 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.