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• Elizabeth Rose Rymarquis (82), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Bertiny Allegonda Hagendijk (94), Den Helder
• Ella Mary SEGHERS (87), Regina,,Saskatchewan,CANADA
• Frans Hubert Aloysius OPSTEYN (73), Z.O.L Campus St.-Jan te Genk,Limburg,Belgium
• Benjamin James Leppink (26)
• Antoinette Mohlmann (63), Maarssenbroek
• Anna Margareta (Annie) van der Veen (96), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arthur Rosalie Ghislain Smal (74), Tinlot, Liège, Belgique
• Almon Roger Lane (69), United States of America
• Engelina Mennega (92), Annen, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1991 » Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Piotr Malarczyk, Polish footballer
• 1992 » Austin Rivers, American basketball player
• 1992 » Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress
• 1993 » Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1993 » Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
• 1994 » Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
• 1994 » Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1996 » Katie Boulter, English tennis player
• 2001 » Park Si-eun, South Korean actress

• 2005 » Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
• 2005 » Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist and educator (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b. 1924)
• 2006 » Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
• 2007 » Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Gertan Klauber, Czech-English actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 » Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
• 2010 » Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican-American activist (b. 1919)

• 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 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
• April 3 » ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
• September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
• October 7 » Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
• October 15 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
• December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.

The temperature on August 1, 2008 was between 15.5 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.