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• Kyla Rose Cuperus († 2008)

• Andries Buter (56), Wildervank, Groningen, Netherlands
• Clark Leigh Bicking (93), Wayne, Delaware, Pennsylvania
• Edeltraud Karsten (88)
• Chris Dumessie (75)
• Daniel Denie (60), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Edith Sparks (94), Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States
• Dirkje van Aalst (81), Leerdam
• Emma Helena Antonia van Tuijl (65), Eindhoven
• Elsien Vos (89), Douai, Nord, Hauts-de-France (Frankrijk)
• Aria van Gemerden (94), Oud-Beijerland

• 1991 » Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer
• 1991 » Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 » Konrad Hurrell, Tongan rugby league player
• 1995 » Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
• 1996 » Takakeishō Mitsunobu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1997 » Jack Cogger, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
• 1998 » Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer and actress
• 1998 » Mimi Keene, English actress
• 2003 » Toni Shaw, British Paralympic swimmer

• 2005 » Eddie Jenkins, Welsh footballer (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Jim O'Hora, American football player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast and coach (b. 1936)
• 2005 » Raul Roco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 31st Filipino Secretary of Education (b. 1941)
• 2007 » Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1943)
• 2007 » Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Reg Lindsay, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1929)
• 2009 » Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Andrzej Lepper, Polish farmer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1954)

• 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.
• May 2 » Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
• May 29 » A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
• September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
• September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
• November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
• 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 5, 2008 was between 14.9 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.