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• Margje Maria Gerarda de Bie, Eindhoven

• Anny Fokkeline Venema (96), Heeze, Heeze-Leende, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Ooms (81)
• Auktje de Jonge (84), Assen
• Aaltje Vlieland (86), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eileen Elizabeth James (90), Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Johannes Schiphorst (77)
• Edward Lawrence "Larry" Albrecht (70), Clio, Genesee, Michigan, United States
• Bob Blaeser (81), Den Bosch
• Edith Kathleen Beverwyk (73), Grand Rapids Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonius Gerardus Maria Jong (50), Hoorn

• 1989 » DeJuan Blair, American basketball player
• 1990 » Óscar González, Mexican boxer († 2014)
• 1990 » Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper and actor
• 1991 » Braydon Smith, Australian boxer († 2015)
• 1991 » Jordi Murphy, Irish international rugby player
• 1992 » Joonas Vaino, Estonian basketball player
• 1992 » Kenny Stills, American football player
• 1993 » Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti, Australian footballer
• 1993 » Marcel Ritzmaier, Austrian footballer
• 1993 » Ngani Laumape, New Zealand rugby player

• 2005 » Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
• 2005 » Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 2006 » D'Iberville Fortier, Canadian diplomat (b. 1926)
• 2006 » Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Juanita Millender-McDonald, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
• 2008 » Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Ed Chynoweth, Canadian businessman (b. 1941)
• 2009 » Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (b. 1914)
• 2010 » Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (b. 1943)

• 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.
• May 28 » The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
• May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
• June 8 » At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
• July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
• September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

The temperature on April 22, 2008 was between 6.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.