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• Gerda Gerits (91), Nuth,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje ROMKES (78)
• Harvey Frank Jacobson (85), Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States
• Adrianus Braamzeel (86)
• Felix Hubertus Augustus GERARDS (89), Margraten, Limburg, Nederland
• Carolus (Karel) van der Zee (74)
• Dirk Visser (86), Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Freerk Koens (81), Loppersum, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Gerits (91), Nuth, Limburg, Nederland
• Evelyn Catherine Smith (93), Cawker City (USA)

• 1985 » Christian Gentner, German footballer
• 1985 » Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Cameron Jerome, English footballer
• 1986 » Sam Moa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
• 1989 » Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Florian Abel, German footballer
• 1989 » Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Richard Freitag, German ski jumper

• 2004 » Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2004 » Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2007 » Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
• 2007 » Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 » Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 2010 » Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author (b. 1929)
• 2011 » Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)

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. Sanneke
12. Fleur
13. Maria
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 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.
• April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
• June 11 » The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
• July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
• July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
• August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.

The temperature on August 14, 2008 was between 9.5 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.