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• Adrianus Marinus Veth (87), Blaricum
• Alberta Elisabeth Zwijnenberg (85), Portland Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Ellen Mae Wartinbee (85), Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States
• Elisabeth Adriana Gijsen (80)
• Armand GRIETENS (80)
• Anna Maria Catharina Doumen (67), Genk, Provincie Limburg, België
• Abraham Dingemanse (87), Middelburg
• Cornelia Kuijt (87), Barneveld
• Cornelia Bouthoorn (94), Gorinchem
• Abraham Dingemanse (87), Middelburg

• 1989 » Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player
• 1989 » Jesse Hughes, Canadian DJ and producer
• 1990 » José Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1992 » Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Byun Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor
• 1992 » Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian professional basketball player
• 1993 » Gustavo Gómez, Paraguayan footballer
• 1994 » Mateo Kovačić, Austrian-Croatian footballer
• 1997 » Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer
• 2019 » Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, British royal

• 2004 » Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Philip Kapleau, American monk and educator (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
• 2006 » Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (b. 1958)
• 2007 » Curtis Harrington, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian physician and politician (b. 1938)
• 2009 » Kevin Grubb, American race car driver (b. 1978)
• 2010 » Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
• 2012 » James R. Browning, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918)

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

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Eva
13. Fleur
14. Sanneke
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 11 » Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
• May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
• May 12 » U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
• July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
• September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• November 27 » XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.

The temperature on May 6, 2008 was between 9.7 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.