About the day » Sunday May 18, 2008Calender converter

• C.P.M. de Wit (95), Breda
• Aalt Mouw (75), Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
• Felix Van Camp (72), Genk
• Brian Keith Boneschans (34), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• van Hutten (58), Venezuela
• Antje Plat (84), Volendam
• Catharina Cornelia Johanna Houwink ten Cate (81)
• Anskje Cnossen (90)
• Donna Joyce Voigts (76), Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Elisabeth Hoeve (85), Ens, Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Nederland

• 1990 » Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
• 1992 » Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model
• 1993 » Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1993 » Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
• 1999 » Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 2000 » Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2000 » Steven Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2002 » Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater

• 2004 » Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)
• 2008 » Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)
• 2009 » Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 2012 » Alan Oakley, English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967)
• 2013 » Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)

1. Thomas
2. Benjamin
3. Gijs
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Ashton
8. Jan
9. Daan
10. Sem
11. Noah
12. Lars
13. Sam
14. Thijs
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. Milou
15. Eva
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 1 » The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
• May 25 » NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
• August 20 » Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
• September 23 » Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
• September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.

The temperature on May 18, 2008 was between 4.2 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.