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• Jikke Carijn van de Zedde, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beaudine van der Graaf, Zoetermeer

• Anna Pieternella Poppelier (84), Purmerend, Nederland
• Catharina Margaretha Wolthuis (86), Amsterdam
• Aad van Rijswijk (90), Vlaardingen
• Ate De Graaf (85), Drachten
• Bayard Wickliffe Heath (61), Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Korpel (90), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonia van Veldhoven (92), Valkenswaard
• Christina Johanna van den Reek (83)
• A. M. Boslooper (79), Hoogeveen
• Arie Mes (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1988 » Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
• 1989 » Alex Trimble, Irish singer
• 1989 » Nate Montana, American football player
• 1990 » Johan Le Bon, French cyclist
• 1991 » Aki Takajo, Japanese singer
• 1991 » Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter
• 1993 » Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player
• 1995 » Lil Tracy, American rapper
• 1997 » Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater

• 2005 » Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (b. 1937)
• 2006 » John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Lucilla Andrews, Egyptian-Scottish nurse and author (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Peter Norman, Australian runner (b. 1942)
• 2007 » M. N. Vijayan, Indian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2009 » Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist (b. 1917)
• 2009 » Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1921)
• 2010 » Ben Mondor, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1925)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Daan
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Thijs
13. Noah
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.
• April 8 » The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
• June 9 » Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
• July 26 » Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
• September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• October 3 » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
• October 7 » Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.

The temperature on October 3, 2008 was between 4.0 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.