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• Grant Hudson Zoeteman, Tucson, Arizona, America

• Anna H. Wilbrink (94)
• Arnold Schimmel (76), Otterlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van der Wildt (89), Spijkenisse, ZH Netherlands
• Christina Cornelia Antonia van Beers (96), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardina Johanna Soppe (82)
• Cornelis Zwaan (54), Rijnsburg
• Carol Jean Corey (68), Winlock, Lewis, Washington, United States
• Christina Bokhoven (95), Rotterdam
• Christina Gerharda Hendrika Reuling (93)
• Cora Wilma van Kooten (98), Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa

• 1960 » Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter, activist and actress
• 1960 » Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland
• 1960 » Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
• 1962 » Vanessa Lawrence, English geographer and civil servant
• 1963 » Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
• 1971 » Howard Webb, English footballer and referee
• 1974 » David Mitchell, British comedian
• 1977 » Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
• 1983 » Tito Muñoz, American conductor and academic
• 1988 » Jérémy Stravius, French swimmer; winner of five gold medals in Olympic and world championship competitions.

• 1993 » Léo Ferré, Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (b. 1916)
• 1998 » Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (b. 1911)
• 2000 » William Roscoe Estep, American historian and academic (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Guy de Lussigny, French painter (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 41st President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
• 2003 » François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist and academic (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Cicely Saunders, English hospice founder (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
• 2017 » Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician; only woman to win the Fields Medal (2014), the most prestigious award in mathematics (b. 1977)

• 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 11 » Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
• February 29 » The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak leads to his deployment being reported by foreign media.
• March 14 » A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
• 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.
• July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
• December 24 » The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.

The temperature on July 14, 2008 was between 7.7 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.