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• Guus Herman Willem Stroink, Heemsede

• Elbertje Elizabeth Gerarda Schuddeboom (79), Den Helder
• Anthonia Cornelia Peters van Nijenhof (88), Zwijndrecht
• Cornelis Wattel (89), Amsterdam
• Dries van Ark (86)
• Caroline le Clercq (95), 's-Gravenhage
• Donald Quay (86), Norwich, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonia Cornelia Peters Van Nijenhof (88), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje Paulusdr van der Meij (87), Voorburg
• Albertje Mulder (78), Zwartemeer
• Eleanore Schmidt (86), Wenona, Marshall, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1988 » Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1989 » Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1989 » Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
• 1990 » Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Blake Bortles, American football player
• 1992 » DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player
• 1993 » Craig Garvey, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder
• 1995 » Jonathan Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Melanie Martinez, American singer

• 2005 » Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1971)
• 2005 » Percy Heath, American bassist (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Steve Howe, American baseball player (b. 1958)
• 2007 » Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 » René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
• 2007 » Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1929)
• 2009 » Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1939)
• 2009 » Richard Pratt, Polish-Australian businessman (b. 1934)

• 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 14 » A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
• March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
• June 9 » Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
• October 29 » Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
• November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.

The temperature on April 28, 2008 was between 9.9 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.