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• Alida Sophie Jautze (95), Dordrecht, Netherlands
• Bartholomeus Adrianus Wilhelmus Antonius Langerwerf (64), Alabaster, Verenigde Staten
• Alvis Arlis Akers (64), Glenmont, Holmes, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Christoph Theodore Johan Leopold Joseph Maria Vitalis van Habsburg-Lotharingen Prins van Altenburg (71), Cootamundra, New-South-Wales, Australië
• Dorothy Mae Williams (79)
• Cornelis (Cees) Rijsdijk (89), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Adriana Verlaan (95), Noordwijkerhout
• Delmer H Forell (75), Sandpoint, Bonner, Idaho, United States
• Arie Geilings (91), Halsteren, Nederland
• dieuwertje johanna sluijter (75), heerde, gelderland, nederland

• 1988 » Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
• 1988 » Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player
• 1989 » Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete († 2013)
• 1989 » Sebastian Huke, German footballer
• 1990 » Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
• 1991 » Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
• 1994 » Joseph Barbato, French footballer
• 1994 » Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer

• 2003 » Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Dursun Karataş, founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952)
• 2008 » George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2009 » Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Michael Dokes, American boxer (b. 1958)
• 2012 » Red Bastien, American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (b. 1943)

• 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.
• June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
• July 26 » Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
• August 20 » Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
• September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
• September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.

The temperature on August 11, 2008 was between 13.4 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.