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• Markus Rafael de Beurs

• Brett Vanherck (21), Leuven
• Albin Reinhart Wiegert (89), Appleton, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Arnold Hunter (97), Summerdale Marlow, Baldwin, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Josephus LENSINK (72), Hoofddorp
• Adriana Jacoba Kortland (92)
• Beitske Hottinga (80)
• Cornelis Hermanus VAN DE HAAR (66)
• Anna Maria Polycarpa Ulijn (88), Katwijk
• Agnieta (Anita) Koop (74)
• (ed) helenius fredrik koetsier (80), canada

• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
• 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor

• 2006 » Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
• 2007 » Julia Carson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2008 » León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
• 2009 » Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian (b. 1909)
• 2009 » Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Blake Edwards, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2010 » Bob Feller, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (b. 1940)
• 2011 » Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and composer (b. 1929)
• 2011 » Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (b. 1949)

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

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

• 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.
• February 1 » The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.
• February 20 » Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
• April 30 » Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• May 18 » The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
• June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
• September 2 » The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

The temperature on December 15, 2009 was between -6.8 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -3.5 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.