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• Isis van Vlijmen

• Charles Dirk van der Slikke (80), Den Burg
• Antonius Lathouwers (80), Waikiki WA
• Anna Maria van Gorp (97), Oisterwijk
• Aloysius Franciscus Oostermeijer (82), Almelo
• Dorothy Slade (87), Purvis, Lamar County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Eva Orris (103), Decatur, Macon, Illinois
• ARIE MOERMAN (73), UTRECHT
• Emmy Christien Daniels (83), Almere, Nederland
• Cornelis Andreas Simon Verdegaal (69), Hillegom
• Antonius Lathouwers (80), Waikiki WA

• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1994 » Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
• 1996 » Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress

• 2006 » Henderson Forsythe, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Jean Bernard, French physician and haematologist (b. 1907)
• 2006 » Scott Brazil, American director and producer (b. 1955)
• 2007 » Kitty Carlisle, American actress, singer, socialite and game show panelist (b. 1910)
• 2008 » Aimé Césaire, Caribbean-French poet and politician (b. 1913)
• 2008 » Danny Federici, American organist and accordion player (b. 1950)
• 2011 » Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2011 » Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
• 2011 » Robert Vickrey, American artist and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Leila Berg, English journalist and author (b. 1917)

• 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.
• April 7 » Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
• June 18 » The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
• July 4 » The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
• August 26 » Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years.
• September 24 » The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance.
• September 29 » The 8.1 M_w  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.

The temperature on April 17, 2009 was between 8.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.