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• Elisabeth Petronella Maria (Lieke) van Schijndel (60), Rotterdam
• Catharina van der Plas (82), Noordwijkerhout
• Cornelia Petronella Gerarda (Corrie) De Krom (79), Adelaide Australie
• Alida van Rijn (97), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaantje Buijk (77)
• David Henry Arthur NICHOLSON (88)
• ERNEST WEBSTER CROSS (60), WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH, INDIANA
• Antonie Johanna Roest (86), Eindhoven
• Cornelia Josefien DIRKSON (86), Akersloot
• Adriaan den Hoed (64), Grandview, Washington

• 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
• 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 » Jade Thirlwall, English singer
• 1994 » Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

• 2005 » Kerry Packer, Australian publisher and businessman (b. 1937)
• 2005 » Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano (b. 1937)
• 2005 » Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier and engineer (b. 1951)
• 2006 » Munir Niazi, Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
• 2009 » Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
• 2010 » Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934)
• 2010 » Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
• 2010 » Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1956)

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.
• April 3 » ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
• June 11 » Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
• July 21 » Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
• August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
• August 20 » Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.

The temperature on December 26, 2008 was between -3.0 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.