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• Emma Ubben (87), Presbyterian Village, Ackley, Hardin, Iowa
• Bastiaantje Barendregt (91), Barendrecht, Nederland
• Franciscus van Gestel (78), Chaam (NL)
• Bastiaantje Zwijnenburg (58), Gouda
• Adrianus Petrus Hendrikus de Groot (79)
• Franciscus Adrianus Cornelis van Gestel (78), Chaam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aukje Beishuizen (87)
• Danilo Peric
• Christopher Steven Grotness (36), California, United States of America
• Albert Schoon (92), Opwijk

• 1988 » Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer
• 1989 » Charlie Austin, English footballer
• 1989 » Dwight King, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer
• 1990 » Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner
• 1992 » Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Chiara Scholl, American tennis player
• 1993 » Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1994 » Diana Harkusha, Ukrainian lawyer, dancer, model and beauty queen
• 1994 » Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player

• 2005 » James Stockdale, American admiral (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Amzie Strickland, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
• 2006 » Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
• 2007 » George Melly, English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
• 2008 » Hasan Doğan, Turkish businessman (b. 1956)
• 2010 » Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (b. 1965)
• 2011 » Cy Twombly, American-Italian painter, sculptor, and photographer (b. 1928)

• 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.
• 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 12 » U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
• July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
• August 1 » The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.

The temperature on July 5, 2008 was between 8.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.