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• Gustaaf Broidioi, Ettelgem

• Aartje Bakker
• ClaSina Maria Prenen (67), Etten-Leur
• Cornelis Frederikus Scherff (81), Zwolle
• Cornelis Evert Jan Jalink (80), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Fred Bell Matthews (92), Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Vos (85), Huizen
• Antonie Huibert van Dokkum (59)
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Hellemons (89), Warmond, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Kaasjager (90)
• Dirk Kingma (85), St Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland

• 1988 » Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 » Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
• 1990 » Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 » Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Suho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1992 » Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
• 1994 » Florian Luger, Austrian male model
• 1998 » Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model
• 1999 » Camren Bicondova, American actress
• 1999 » Femke Huijzer, Dutch model

• 2005 » Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)
• 2007 » Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
• 2008 » Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970)
• 2012 » Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Djess
4. Lars
5. Jens
6. Canryn
7. Jayden
8. Levi
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Liam
12. Milan
13. Daan
14. Christian
15. Julian
16. Mees

1. Lieke
2. Emma
3. Lotte
4. Anna
5. Ella
6. Jitte
7. Julia
8. Fleur
9. Jasmijn
10. Eva
11. Indi
12. Lisa
13. Maria
14. Amber
15. Lynn
16. Sanne

• 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.
• January 4 » The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.
• February 8 » A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
• May 6 » In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
• May 19 » The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
• 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.

The temperature on May 22, 2010 was between 8.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.