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• Anne Sopie Kloppenburg, Wehl

• Albrecht Theophiel (Albert) BEX (91), Hasselt (B) Hospital
• Gerritje de Graaf (85), Apeldoorn
• Casey Lynn Williams (20)
• Hendrika Maria Krabbe (94), Enschede
• Elisabeth Therese Leopoldine Angela Maria van Stolberg-Stolberg (87), Keulen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Betty Charlotte JONES (80), Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia
• Adriana H.K. Breugom (73)
• Adriana Veenvliet (71), Utrecht
• Donald Allen Oehlstrom (73), Carrollton, Carroll Co., OH (Carroll Health Care Ctr.)
• Charlene Carol Brixey (81), Greeley, Weld, Colorado, Verenigde Staten

• 1987 » Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer
• 1987 » Felipe Dylon, Brazilian singer
• 1987 » Serdar Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer
• 1989 » Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
• 1989 » Donald Young, American tennis player
• 1990 » Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
• 1991 » Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1991 » Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
• 1992 » Danny Ings, English footballer
• 1996 » Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian

• 2004 » Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (b. 1925)
• 2004 » Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1932)
• 2005 » Ted Greene, American guitarist and journalist (b. 1946)
• 2006 » Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2007 » Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (b. 1914)
• 2007 » Ron Miller, American songwriter and producer (b. 1933)
• 2008 » Kurt Furgler, Swiss lawyer and politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1924)
• 2009 » E. Lynn Harris, American author and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2010 » Daniel Schorr, American journalist and author (b. 1916)
• 2011 » Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)

1. Thomas
2. Gijs
3. Benjamin
4. Ruben
5. Lucas
6. Pieter
7. Daan
8. Ashton
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Lars
12. Noah
13. Thijs
14. Sam
15. Albert
16. Milan

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Eva
13. Fleur
14. Sanneke
15. Milou
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 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
• April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
• May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
• June 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• July 1 » Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.

The temperature on July 23, 2008 was between 13.5 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.