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• Berndina Jacomina Johanna Reinders (89), Maastricht, Zuid-Limburg, Nederland
• Berend Johannes Nijhof (84), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
• Aaltje Lasker (90), Holten
• Blanche Irene Stine (78), Corsica, Douglas, South Dakota, VS
• Arie Jan van Beelen (72), Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Arie Jan van Beelen (72), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Diana Jane MACKIRDY (47)
• Adriana Hendrika van der Lee (83), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Claire Joan Lax (81), Clay, Onondaga, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Baukje Reijnen - Eekhof (89), Almere

• 1987 » Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
• 1988 » Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Kim Myung-sung, South Korean baseball player
• 1990 » Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer († 2017)
• 1993 » Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1993 » Zac Santo, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player
• 1997 » Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player
• 1997 » Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter

• 2007 » Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• 2008 » Kazuo Shiraga, Japanese painter (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
• 2009 » Richard de Mille, American Scientologist, author, investigative journalist, and psychologist (b. 1922)
• 2010 » Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
• 2011 » Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer (b. 1910)
• 2012 » Blair Kiel, American football player and coach (b. 1961)
• 2012 » Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman, founded Commodore International (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Janusz K. Zawodny, Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (b. 1921)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• May 28 » In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
• July 23 » English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
• September 7 » A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
• October 3 » The 19th Commonwealth Games commence in Delhi.
• October 10 » The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
• December 22 » The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The temperature on April 8, 2010 was between 3.3 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.