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• Laura Wilbrink, Alicante, Sp
• Hayco Doppenberg († 2008)
• Roan Jacobus Bandringa († 2008)

• Diana harmina maria (diana) Veerman (39), Amsterdam
• Arie Cornelis Wilhelmus Pot (80), Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Cornelius Bernardus BAL (76), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aartje Hop (72), Zwolle
• Beulah Geneva Peck (82), New Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Christiaan Cornelis Schook (65), Den Haag
• Bertha DEVRIES (92), Lynden, Whatcom, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Cor F Pauw (67), Boskoop
• Anna van Leeuwen (91), Soest
• Anna Gesina Reina Neijssel (93)

• 1992 » Javier Báez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1992 » Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1992 » Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1993 » Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
• 1994 » Seedy Njie, English footballer
• 1995 » Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1995 » James Wilson, English footballer
• 1995 » Jenna Fife, Scottish footballer
• 1998 » Shimona Nelson, Jamaican netballer

• 2005 » Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
• 2005 » Mary Hayley Bell, English actress and playwright (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2010 » Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1914)
• 2010 » Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929)

• 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 24 » Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
• April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
• June 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
• August 6 » A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
• December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.

The temperature on December 1, 2008 was between 1.8 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.