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• Frans de Haan, Helmond, N.Br., NL
• Cornelis Laurentius van den Houdt (93), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Grietje van Beelen (78)
• Dolf MEIJER (71), Winterswijk, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Annet Verhoeven (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Grietje van Beelen (78), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Joseph van Neer (97), Sittard
• Frans Bosten (79)
• Jan Zonneveld (82), Alkmaar
• Jan Dijkstra (67), Giethoorn

• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 » Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1986 » Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger
• 1987 » Davide Astori, Italian footballer († 2018)
• 1987 » Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 » Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
• 1990 » Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 » Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
• 1991 » Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 2015 » Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (b. 1936)
• 2015 » Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2016 » Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2016 » John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947)
• 2016 » Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938)
• 2016 » Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)
• 2016 » Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936)
• 2017 » Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (b. 1924)
• 2018 » France Gall, French singer (b. 1947)
• 2018 » Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1938)

1. Louis
2. Gijs
3. Lucas
4. Jan
5. Jacob
6. Noah
7. Sem
8. Thomas
9. Cornelis
10. Arthur
11. Milan
12. Max
13. Bram
14. Tygo
15. Liam
16. Finn

1. Julia
2. Emma
3. Ada
4. Eva
5. Olivia
6. Saar
7. Sophie
8. Mila
9. Anna
10. Isa
11. Fleur
12. Elizabeth
13. Nora
14. Maria
15. Lauren
16. Ella

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 17.2 million citizens.
• March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
• March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
• May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
• October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
• November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
• December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

The temperature on January 7, 2018 was between -1.2 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.