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• Chloe Elisah Lelah, Almere, Flevoland, Nederland

• Cornelis Vooijs (74), Katwijk aan den Rijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ethel Jean Sieplinga (93), Kent County (Michigan)
• Catharina Cornelia Knijnenburg (95), Katwijk
• Elizabeth Catharina Maria van Dijk (95), Geertruidenberg, Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dan Verhelst (88)
• Berend (Bé, B�) Speek (77), Vlissingen, Nederland
• Dolores Lavonne Gulick (80), Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa, United States
• Anna van Steenwijk (78)
• Cornelia Maria Aerssens (85), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Willemina SCHOEP (89), Orange City, Sioux, Iowa

• 1991 » Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Piotr Malarczyk, Polish footballer
• 1992 » Austin Rivers, American basketball player
• 1992 » Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress
• 1993 » Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
• 1993 » Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
• 1994 » Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
• 1994 » Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
• 1996 » Katie Boulter, English tennis player
• 2001 » Park Si-eun, South Korean actress

• 2007 » Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Gertan Klauber, Czech-English actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
• 2009 » Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
• 2010 » Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican-American activist (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer and agent (b. 1953)
• 2012 » Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Douglas Townsend, American composer and musicologist (b. 1921)
• 2013 » John Amis, English journalist and critic (b. 1922)

• 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 8 » Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
• February 13 » A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
• June 24 » At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
• 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.
• August 24 » Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.
• August 24 » In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.

The temperature on August 1, 2010 was between 12.8 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.