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• Albertien Meertens (84), Gieten
• Abraham Huis (74), Maasdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Brigitte van Crawhez (72), St. Lambrechts-Woluwe, Brussel
• Bernardus Gerrit Jan de Joode (87)
• Carolyn A. Ramaker (66), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Antonia van der Velden (83), Breda
• Anna Maria Catharina Hortense Geerts (95), Balen, Belgium
• Cornelis Adrianus Eekels (84), Nieuwkuijk
• Alice Hooven (93), Hummelstown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States
• Catharina Maria Eisabeth Rosalia Versteijnen (90), Alphen-Chaam

• 1988 » Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek footballer
• 1990 » Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper
• 1990 » Marcus Jordan, American basketball player
• 1990 » Ryo Miyake, Japanese fencer
• 1991 » Lara Michel, Swiss tennis player
• 1991 » Louis Tomlinson, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Wasim Tareen, Pakistani footballer
• 1994 » Fa'amanu Brown, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Matt Frawley, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Miguel Castro, Dominican baseball player

• 2006 » Braguinha, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1907)
• 2006 » Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1961)
• 2007 » George Warrington, American businessman (b. 1952)
• 2007 » Nicholas Pumfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1951)
• 2008 » Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Ralph Harris, British journalist (b. 1921)
• 2009 » George Michael, American sportscaster (b. 1939)
• 2009 » Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic (b. 1933)
• 2009 » Marcus Bakker, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 65th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)

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. Sanneke
13. Fleur
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 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.
• May 2 » Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
• September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
• September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
• October 3 » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

The temperature on December 24, 2008 was between 3.7 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.