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• * Gerardus Franciscus Petrus (Gerard) de Kort (79), Weert, Netherlands
• Arie Solleveld (95)
• Catharina Theodora Bekker (97), Waarland, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Chloe Robison (93), Ogden, Weber, Utah
• Antonia Cornelia van Strien (93)
• Anna Maria Schimmel (97), Zaandam (Zaanstad)
• Berendina Hendrika Vijge (86), Oene
• Adriaan van Willigen (89), Eindhoven
• Cornella Martha Spanjer (88), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Neijens (81), Harderwijk

• 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
• 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• 1984 » Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
• 1985 » Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
• 1988 » Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
• 1988 » Luke Daniels, English footballer
• 1989 » Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 » Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 2003 » Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Merlyn Rees, Welsh educator and politician, Home Secretary (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
• 2009 » Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
• 2010 » Willie Mitchell, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 2012 » Isaac Díaz Pardo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2014 » Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1942)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
• June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
• July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
• September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
• November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.

The temperature on January 5, 2008 was between 4.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.