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• Vic Van Lierde, Veurne
• Winnie Grace van Klompenburg, Ìowa († 2008)

• Bernardus Pagen (73), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Dirk (Cor) de Graaf (de Graav,de Graaff,van der Graaf) (84)
• Froukje de Vries (86), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Johanna Burger (73), Eindhoven
• Adriana Maryna Hoebé (92), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Spiering (74), Beverwijk
• Alberdina Jantina Lourens (74), Ter-Apelkanaal, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Loenen (87), Loenen aan de Vecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Froukje Keimpes de Vries (86), Leeuwarden
• Geertje van den Brink (91), Kampen, Nederland

• 1990 » Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer
• 1991 » Alise Post, American BMX rider
• 1991 » Esapekka Lappi, Finnish Rally Driver
• 1991 » Slade Griffin, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Trevor Bauer, American baseball player
• 1993 » Frankie Cocozza, British singer
• 1994 » Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer
• 1998 » Jeff Reine-Adelaide, French footballer
• 1998 » Sophie Molineux, Australian cricketer
• 2000 » Devlin DeFrancesco, Canadian race car driver

• 2006 » Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Art Buchwald, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1951)
• 2008 » Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)
• 2008 » Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1948)
• 2009 » Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (b. 1943)
• 2010 » Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2010 » Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
• 2010 » Jyoti Basu, Indian politician and CM of West Bengal for 23 years (b. 1914)
• 2010 » Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek journalist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1919)

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.
• March 14 » A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
• April 3 » ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
• July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
• August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
• 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.
• December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

The temperature on January 17, 2008 was between 0.8 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.