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• Guido Geertsma

• Anna Antoinetta GILS, van (74), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Hamersma (82), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Korver (80), Uithoorn
• Douwe Hoeksma (70), Drogeham (Droegeham), Friesland, Nederland
• Charlotte Christina GROBBEN (68), Opglabbeek (Limburg) (B)
• Cornelius Hendrikus Swinkels (90), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Leonardus van Zundert (77), Roosendaal
• Cornelis Kostelijk (66)
• Cornelia Adriana Wehrmeijer (91), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• A Pruiksma

• 1990 » Montee Ball, American football player
• 1991 » Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Ilja Antonov, Estonian footballer
• 1992 » Natalie Sourisseau, Canadian field hockey player
• 1993 » Ross Barkley, English footballer
• 1994 » Grant Ward, English footballer
• 1994 » Ondrej Duda, Slovak footballer
• 1995 » Anthony Martial, French footballer
• 1995 » Danny Levi, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater

• 2006 » David Bronstein, Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Andrew Imbrie, American composer and academic (b. 1921)
• 2007 » George Paraskevaides, Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Joannou & Paraskevaides (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (b. 1928)
• 2008 » Anca Parghel, Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1957)
• 2008 » Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1926)
• 2008 » George Brecht, American chemist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
• 2008 » Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929)
• 2009 » William Lederer, American soldier and author (b. 1912)

• 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 23 » A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
• April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
• May 2 » Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
• July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
• August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
• September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

The temperature on December 5, 2008 was between 2.3 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.