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• Eliot BELMANS († 2010)
• Ole Martin Roel Scholten, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Bessie Florence Kreiser (84), Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Josephina Diependaal (47), Tilburg
• Anna Bernardina Kok (88), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elizabeth Visker (88), Blijham
• Anne Louise (65)
• Antoinette Claire de Chaufepié (85), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antony Lionel Thomas BONHAM (92)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Scheerder (77), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Henricus Maria Blox (50), Tilburg
• Eric van Dolder (46), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1992 » Lidziya Marozava, Belarusian tennis player
• 1992 » Maria João Koehler, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 » Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model and actress
• 1993 » Darrell Wallace, Jr., American race car driver
• 1993 » Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
• 1993 » Molly Quinn, American actress and producer
• 1996 » Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
• 1996 » Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
• 1997 » Bella Thorne, American actress
• 1999 » Camila Rossi, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

• 2007 » Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Ângelo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Bob Friend, English journalist (b. 1938)
• 2008 » Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 » George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2010 » Eileen Crofton, British physician and author (b. 1919)
• 2010 » Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (b. 1919)
• 2011 » Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 2011 » Mikey Welsh, American guitarist and painter (b. 1971)
• 2011 » Roger Williams, American pianist (b. 1924)

1. Sebastiaan
2. Jesse
3. Thijs
4. Lucas
5. Daan
6. Thomas
7. Mitchel
8. Ruben
9. Tobias
10. Levi
11. Jan
12. Tim
13. Lars
14. Jayden
15. Milan
16. Sem

1. Emma
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Babette
5. Sophie
6. Julia
7. Eva
8. Sanne
9. Anne
10. Noor
11. Charlotte
12. Delphine
13. Lotte
14. Fleur
15. Isa
16. Isabel

• 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 16.5 million citizens.
• January 8 » A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
• April 9 » In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
• April 10 » President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
• June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
• November 5 » U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.

The temperature on October 8, 2009 was between 4.5 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.