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• Lotte Neeltje Borsboom
• Maarten Horn

• Geertruida de Heus (88), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elizabeth Boer (74), Zutphen
• Coen Obbema (73)
• Antje van Veen (88)
• Agnes Loftin (81), Kinston, Lenoir, North Carolina
• Anny Burgers (90)
• Catharina Maria van der Westen (91), Tilburg
• Geertruida de Heus (88), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Gerard Teunis Barnhard (87), Sleeuwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth Mout (78), Borger

• 1991 » Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
• 1992 » Sunmi, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper
• 1993 » Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer
• 1993 » Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist
• 1996 » Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer
• 1996 » Julian Brandt, German footballer
• 1996 » Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer
• 2015 » Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal, and fourth in line to the British throne

• 2005 » Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean journalist and politician, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Louis Rukeyser, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Brad McGann, New Zealand director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
• 2008 » Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)
• 2008 » Izold Pustõlnik, Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938)
• 2009 » Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (b. 1935)
• 2009 » Kiyoshiro Imawano, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1951)
• 2009 » Marilyn French, American author and academic (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (b. 1943)
• 2011 » Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founder of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)

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.
• February 13 » Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
• March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
• June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
• September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
• September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
• 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.

The temperature on May 2, 2008 was between 3.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.