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• Catherine Mary {Kitty} Mynahan (90), New Rochelle, West Chester, New York, United States of America
• Dina Schonewille (83), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Laming (81)
• "Yves" Marie André de Saint-Pol (87), Caen, Calvados, France
• Derk Birnie (87)
• Anna Adriana Maria Lek (72), Nieuwkoop
• Anna Clasina Maria van der Laan (95), Bergeijk,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Dina (Dinie) Schonewille (83), Emmen
• Bo Arne Christer Isaksson (56), Henry Dunkers Plats 4, Helsingborgs Maria (M)
• Anna Antonia Sep (87), Breda

• 1988 » Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
• 1988 » Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 » Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1990 » Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
• 1990 » Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
• 1990 » Lacey Evans, American wrestler
• 1990 » Starlin Castro, American baseball player
• 1991 » Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 » Nick Browne, English cricketer
• 1995 » Enzo Fernandez, French-Spanish footballer

• 2006 » Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)
• 2008 » Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
• 2008 » Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)
• 2008 » Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2009 » Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
• 2009 » George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
• 2009 » Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919)
• 2010 » Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)

• 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 26 » The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
• March 23 » Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
• June 26 » A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
• July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
• October 7 » Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.

The temperature on March 24, 2008 was between -0.6 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.