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• Milano Spijkerman, Deventer

• Cornelis van Duijn (70), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dina de Bever (76)
• Catharina Gerarda Maria van den Boomen (47)
• Eduard Johannes Zandvliet (83), Arcachon, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Frankrijk
• Cynthia L Kostelijk (45), USA:Illinois:Hardin:Elizabethtown
• Bart Verdoorn (87), Schagen
• Augusta Henriette Theodorine LOMBAERTS (90), Heusden-Zolder, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Cornelia van de Lagemaat (92), Burlington, Ontario, Canada
• Antonius Aloysius Maria Koijen (72), Goirle
• Cornelis Van Duijn (70), Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1988 » Dana Brooke, American wrestler and bodybuilder
• 1988 » Lee Hyun-ho, South Korean footballer
• 1988 » Russell Wilson, American football player
• 1990 » Sheldon Richardson, American football player
• 1991 » Terunofuji Haruo, Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1993 » Stefon Diggs, American football player
• 1994 » Shaun Lane, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Karl Lawton, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, English swimmer
• 1997 » Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player

• 2006 » Allen Carr, English-Spanish accountant and author (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Henry Hyde, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• 2007 » James Barber, Canadian chef and author (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
• 2008 » Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (b. 1918)
• 2009 » Robert Holdstock, English author (b. 1948)
• 2010 » Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (b. 1937)
• 2010 » Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2010 » S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 2010 » Stephen J. Solarz, American academic and politician (b. 1940)

• 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.
• March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
• 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 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
• 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 November 29, 2008 was between -1.9 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.