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• Noa Noa Muntz, Den Haag

• Albertje van Elburg (89), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Doris Elizabeth Allen (91), Marietta, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• "Jacques" Marie Charles Louis de Buretel de Chassey (74), Brignais, Rhône, France
• Cornelis Henricus Harden (85), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abel Jänen (74), Altenberge
• Adrianus van Beek (92), 's-Gravenmoer
• Catharina Zegwaard (82), Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
• Dirkje Johannes Swart (93), Whitinsville, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Anna Catherine Kittrell Palanjian <?K PqObFLBu>2 (72), Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, Florida
• Calvin Willis van der Werf (81), Temple, Iowa

• 1990 » Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
• 1990 » Sakiko Matsui, Japanese singer and actress
• 1990 » Terrell Sinkfield, American football player
• 1991 » Dion Waiters, American basketball player
• 1991 » Eric Reid, American football player
• 1994 » Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
• 1994 » Richard Kennar, Samoan rugby league player
• 1996 » Joe Burrow, American football player
• 1996 » Kang Daniel, South Korean singer
• 1997 » Viktoriia Savtsova, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer

• 2005 » Eugene McCarthy, American poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Mary Jackson, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2005 » Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 2006 » Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (b. 1908)
• 2007 » Vitali Hakko, Turkish businessman, founded Vakko (b. 1913)
• 2009 » Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (b. 1925)
• 2010 » J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 2010 » John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2010 » MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)

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. Fleur
13. Sanneke
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 17 » Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
• June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
• 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 23 » Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
• October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
• November 26 » Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation, and the ship, Queen Elizabeth 2 is out of service, and docks in Dubai.

The temperature on December 10, 2008 was between -1.8 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.