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• Cornelis van Duijn (71), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Klaver (92), Wilhelminaoord, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cato de Vries (91), Amsterdam
• Eduard Jozef Moerenhout (78)
• Geesje VAN DER WEL (94)
• Dorothea Petronella Francisca van Hulten (68), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernard van der Molen (84), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Bernard van der Molen (84), Pella, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Frederik Karel Hendrik Graaf van Reventlow (71)
• Gonny Senden Zenden (28)

• 1989 » Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
• 1991 » Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder
• 1992 » Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player
• 1993 » Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
• 1993 » Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer
• 1994 » Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer
• 1995 » Chief Keef, American rapper
• 1999 » Paola Reis, BMX rider

• 2006 » Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist and academic (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (b. 1955)
• 2006 » Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand queen (b. 1931)
• 2007 » Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand physician (b. 1908)
• 2007 » John Gofman, American biologist, chemist, and physicist (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Richard Bradshaw, English conductor and director (b. 1944)
• 2007 » Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Vic Toweel, South African-Australian boxer (b. 1929)

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

1. Marieke
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Femke
5. Anna
6. Sanne
7. Sophie
8. Lieke
9. Lotte
10. Jasmijn
11. Maria
12. Sanneke
13. Fleur
14. Eva
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.
• January 18 » The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• April 20 » Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
• 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 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
• August 16 » The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.

The temperature on August 15, 2008 was between 8.3 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (73%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.