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• Dirk Hoogerdijk (71)
• Arie Kornelis de Rooij (84), mijnsheerenland
• Elmer Ottens (86), Wantage New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Henrica Maria van Eerd (90), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gerritje Schuttert (78)
• Elizabeth (Bep) Mos (82), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Catherine Lucille Petersen (101), Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Koenen (90)
• Gery Vandermarliere (81), Sint-Denijs-Westrem
• Elizabeth Stolk (89)

• 1965 » Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1967 » Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1971 » Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1977 » Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
• 1981 » Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author
• 1982 » Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 » Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
• 1984 » Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 » Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
• 1997 » Jelena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

• 2008 » Šaban Bajramović, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2009 » Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
• 2010 » Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2012 » Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
• 2012 » Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 2013 » Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
• 2013 » Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
• 2013 » Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)

• 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, 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 » The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.
• January 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 people.
• February 17 » Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
• April 11 » An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
• May 25 » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
• July 13 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.

The temperature on June 8, 2011 was between 11.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.