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• Adrianus de Lange (77)
• Berend Willem te Voortwis (85), Winterswijk (Brinkheurne)
• Aart Krooneman (75)
• Aaltje Frederika de Boer (67), Amsterdam
• Alma Dorothea Wilhelmina Stönner (86), Wijchen
• Adrianus Verbiest (82)
• Anne Mary Affourtit (86), Albany, Albany, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Ana Ferreira de Figueiredo (71), Três Pontas, MG, Brasil
• Catharina Johanna van der Valk (85)
• Arie Baars (69), Rhoon

• 1989 » Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
• 1989 » Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
• 1991 » Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
• 1991 » Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer († 2014)
• 1992 » Jessica Henwick, British actress
• 1994 » Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer
• 1994 » Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
• 1994 » Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
• 1997 » Dana Gaier, American actress

• 2006 » Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
• 2008 » Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2008 » Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926)
• 2009 » Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 2010 » Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 2010 » J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)

• 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.
• April 20 » Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
• May 25 » NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
• September 11 » A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
• September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
• October 3 » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
• November 14 » The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on August 30, 2008 was between 11.8 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.