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• Yuriaan van Weelden, Eindhoven, N-Br († 2008)

• Clarence Willard Dressel (Meima) (82), Las Vegas, Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Geertruda Petronella (Truus) MAESSEN (86), Meijel, Limburg, Nederland
• Geertruida Jans Lassche (90), Enschede
• Dorothy Frances Ball (91), Buffalo, Erie, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Etzler (74)
• Elizabeth Ann Demi (77), Indianola, Warren, Iowa
• Cornelia (Corrie) A. van Gogh (81), Schiedam
• Christina Dekker (55), De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus, Theodorus Groenendijk (73), Eindhoven
• Cornelia HUISMAN (96), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1986 » Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Michal Švec, Czech footballer
• 1987 » Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player
• 1988 » Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player
• 1991 » Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer
• 1993 » Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer
• 1993 » Mateusz Szwoch, Polish footballer
• 1995 » Alexei Sintsov, Russian figure skater
• 1995 » Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer
• 1996 » Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player

• 2004 » Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
• 2005 » John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2009 » Maria Bergson, Austrian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Kym Bonython, Australian drummer and radio host (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Hugo Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian intelligence agent (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Jim Case, American director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Ulu Grosbard, Belgian-American director and producer (b. 1929)

1. Thomas
2. Gijs
3. Benjamin
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Daan
9. Jan
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.
• January 18 » The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• February 13 » Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
• 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.
• April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
• May 15 » California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
• August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.

The temperature on March 19, 2008 was between 0.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.