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• Annelies van Ommen (35), Wayland, Allegan County, VS
• Adolph Peter (Al) Jacobs (74), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Adriaan JOPPE (82), Goes
• Arend Hermanus Hendrik Krijgsman (78)
• Arie Dijkmans (77), Nijmegen
• Charles Burras Thomason (83)
• Audrey Celma Brooks (96)
• Akke Nieuwenhout (96), Leeuwarden (Friesland)
• Anna Maria Graphorn (90)
• Cornelis Anthonius van Wissen (92), Waalre

• 1987 » Michael Angarano, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1988 » Melissa Aldana, Chilean saxophonist
• 1989 » Alex McCarthy, English footballer
• 1989 » Selçuk Alibaz, Turkish footballer
• 1989 » Tomasz Narkun, Polish mixed martial artist
• 1990 » Christian Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player
• 1991 » Ekaterine Gorgodze, Georgian tennis player
• 1992 » Cristian Ceballos, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Solomone Kata, New Zealand rugby league player

• 2004 » Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2007 » James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 » Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist and author (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress and journalist (b. 1959)
• 2009 » Richard Todd, Irish-born British soldier and actor (b. 1919)
• 2010 » Abdumalik Bahori, Azerbaijani poet and author (b. 1927)
• 2011 » Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938)

• 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 14 » Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
• February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
• September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• September 20 » A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
• September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa
• November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.

The temperature on December 3, 2008 was between -0.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.