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• Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of Belgium
• Eléonore van Belgie

• Catharina Sophia Brabander de (53), 's-Gravenzande
• "Maria Carl Josef" Erdmann Jakob Edwin Lazarus Andreas Alois Henckel von Donnersmarck (79), Sliema, Malta
• Bob Karthaus (76), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Molenkamp (75), Den Haag
• Alida Verhoeven (84), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Josef HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK (79), Sliema Malta
• Catharina Sophia Maria de Brabander (53), ,, den Haag, Nederland
• Agatha Hendrika Maria Bouma (64), Tenerife
• Constantijn Karel Eduard Ernst August Steven Alexander Prins van Schaumburg-Lippe (77), Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Bartholomeus Adrianus Nouws (77), Wouwse Plantage

• 1990 » Reggie Jackson, American basketball player
• 1990 » Tony McQuay, American sprinter
• 1990 » Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
• 1991 » Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Nolan Arenado, American baseball player
• 1993 » Chance the Rapper, American rapper
• 1993 » Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
• 1994 » Albert Almora, American baseball player
• 1994 » Will Fuller, American football player
• 2002 » Sadie Sink, American actress

• 2005 » Kay Walsh, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 2007 » Chandrabose Suthaharan, Sri Lankan journalist
• 2007 » Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
• 2007 » Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2007 » Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
• 2008 » Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 2010 » Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (b. 1926)
• 2010 » Rasim Delić, Bosnian general and convicted war criminal (b. 1949)
• 2011 » Allan Blakeney, Canadian scholar and politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
• 2011 » Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (b. 1928)

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.
• March 19 » GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
• 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 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
• November 26 » Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation, and the ship, Queen Elizabeth 2 is out of service, and docks in Dubai.
• December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

The temperature on April 16, 2008 was between -2.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.