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• Geertje KLEPPER (84)
• Elisabeth Groen (101)
• Ernest Albert RIPKE (92)
• Byron Allan Koerselman (53), Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa
• Annie Kling (81), Nijmegen
• Cors Everhard Verhoef (36), Putten
• Bryon Allan Koerselman (53), Le Mars, Plymouth, Iowa
• Geertje van der Pol (74), Harlingen
• Eldon Ray Wesley [WkWk-sWkWkWkWkWks Ob] (65), Science Hill, Pulaski County, Kentucky
• Christine Fruth (97)

• 1987 » Blake Lively, American model and actress
• 1987 » Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
• 1987 » Velimir Jovanović, Serbian footballer
• 1988 » Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer
• 1989 » Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Max Muncy, American baseball player
• 1992 » Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress
• 1992 » Ricardo Rodriguez, Swiss footballer
• 1994 » Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1998 » China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

• 2005 » Peter Glotz, Czech-German academic and politician (b. 1939)
• 2006 » Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Benjamin Aaron, American lawyer and scholar (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
• 2008 » Ahmad Faraz, Pakistani poet (b. 1931)
• 2008 » Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
• 2009 » Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1940)
• 2009 » Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2011 » Lazar Mojsov, Macedonian politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Florencio Amarilla, Paraguayan footballer, coach, and actor (b. 1935)

• 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.
• February 29 » The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak leads to his deployment being reported by foreign media.
• 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 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.
• August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
• October 3 » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

The temperature on August 25, 2008 was between 14.4 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.