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• Barbara Dorothea Monten (93), Lommel
• Hendrikje Hekhuis (86), Dalerpeel
• Annie de Bakker (80), Hulst, Nederland
• Cees NN
• Aleida Maria Theresia Schröder (85), Almelo
• Fokje Jochums Rijpma (89), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Fryslân, Nederland
• Didier DELTOUR (55), Ans (B)
• Antoon (Toon) Geerts (79), Aarle-Rixtel, Nederland
• Aaltje Bos (84)
• Alkina Koers (100), Hippolytushoef, Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1989 » Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1990 » Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 » Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain
• 1990 » Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1990 » Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1991 » Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1998 » Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2000 » Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player

• 2012 » Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2012 » Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985)
• 2013 » Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2013 » Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929)

1. Levi
2. George
3. Noah
4. Willem
5. Ruben
6. Jesse
7. Jonathan
8. Thomas
9. Bram
10. Sem
11. Benjamin
12. Max
13. Milan
14. Lucas
15. Jan
16. Daan

1. Anna
2. Emma
3. Anne
4. Julia
5. Floortje
6. Lisa
7. Lotte
8. Olivia
9. Tess
10. Charlotte
11. Eva
12. Sanne
13. Fenna
14. Lynn
15. Sophie
16. Lieke

• 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
• April 4 » More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
• July 6 » A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
• July 20 » Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
• August 15 » At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
• August 16 » The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing.
• December 16 » A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.

The temperature on August 8, 2013 was between 11.1 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.