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• Bernice Emma Ketelhut (88), Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Van Duijnhoven (85), Camperdown, Victoria, Australia
• Charlotte Christina Schröder (85), Westervoort, Nederland
• Arnold de Lange (60), Zuidlaren
• Adriana ( Jaantje) van Gurp (91)
• Arisje Petronella van den Hazel (89), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benedictus Casimirus Mol (91), Standdaarbuiten
• Brenda Kay Newman McEntyre (54), St. Bernards Medical Center, Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas
• Bernard Lembrechts (91), Berlaar, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Art Verhey

• 1990 » Nina Zander, German tennis player
• 1990 » Peter Sagan, Slovak professional cyclist
• 1990 » Sergio Pérez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 » Tom Meechan, English footballer
• 1992 » Sasha Banks, American professional wrestler
• 1993 » Florian Thauvin, French footballer
• 1993 » Lana Clelland, Scottish footballer
• 1995 » Sione Katoa, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1997 » Gedion Zelalem, German-born American soccer player
• 2001 » Latalia Bevan, Welsh artistic gymnast

• 2003 » Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian and academic (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (b. 1942)
• 2004 » Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1917)
• 2007 » Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and designer (b. 1906)
• 2010 » Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (b. 1917)
• 2011 » Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
• 2011 » David Kato Kisule, Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist, considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement (b. 1964)
• 2012 » Roberto Mieres, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1924)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Jan
9. Daan
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 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
• March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
• June 9 » Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
• July 1 » Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
• August 16 » The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
• September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.

The temperature on January 26, 2008 was between 6.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.