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• "Juup" Jillis Textor, Winterswijk

• Adriaan Kroese (80)
• Dirk Broerken (87), Veendam
• Anna Catharina de Geus van den Heuvel (80), Zwaagwesteinde, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aartje Willy (Atie) Drost (63)
• Anna Victorine Marie Thomas (87), Rennes, 35, France
• Cornelis (Kees) VAN DUIN (80), Goes
• Anna Maria Josephina Simons (81), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Cor Boeder (71)
• Alijda Van De Lagemaat (90), Den Dolder, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles Martin Phillips (92)

• 1990 » Brooks Koepka, American golfer
• 1991 » Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
• 1992 » Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player († 2016)
• 1996 » Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player
• 1996 » Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1996 » Mary Cain, American runner
• 1997 » Desiigner, American rapper
• 1997 » Dwayne Haskins, American football player
• 1997 » Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player

• 2006 » Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (b. 1932)
• 2006 » Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
• 2007 » Knock Yokoyama, Japanese politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
• 2008 » Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)
• 2009 » Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (b. 1931)
• 2009 » Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (b. 1928)
• 2010 » Roy Carrier, American accordion player (b. 1947)

1. Thomas
2. Gijs
3. Benjamin
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Daan
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Noah
13. Thijs
14. Sam
15. Milan
16. Albert

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Sanneke
13. Fleur
14. Eva
15. Milou
16. Nina

• 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 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 16.4 million citizens.
• February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
• February 24 » Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
• May 30 » Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
• September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
• December 14 » Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

The temperature on May 3, 2008 was between 3.1 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.