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• Linde Spaargaren († 2018)

• Erma Gladys van Kampen (91), Lansing, Ingram Co, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk van Kalsbeek (91), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Gerda van Gessel (92)
• Didier Roggeman, Brugge
• Bontje Keuter (77), Súdwest-Fryslân
• Constance Helene Remeeus (90), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elieze (Lies) Oudhoff (77), Almere
• Guy DEFOND (88), Ermont, 48
• "Pierre" Marie Thérèse Léon Joseph Barbe Antoine Ghislain Goethals (90), Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Catharina Johanna Antoinetta van Stekelenburg (96), Edmonton, Canada

• 1985 » Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
• 1985 » Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
• 1986 » Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
• 1986 » Ramses Barden, American football player
• 1987 » Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
• 1987 » Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer
• 1989 » Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player
• 1990 » Julia Glushko, Israeli tennis player
• 1991 » Darius Slay, American football player

• 2016 » Dale Bumpers, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1925)
• 2016 » Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2016 » Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer and producer (b. 1930)
• 2017 » Derek Parfit, British philosopher (b. 1942)
• 2017 » Tony Atkinson, British economist (b. 1944)
• 2017 » Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
• 2018 » Robert Mann, American violinist (b. 1920)
• 2019 » Paul Neville, Australian politician (b. 1940)
• 2019 » Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (b. 1952)
• 2020 » David Stern, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1942)

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

1. Julia
2. Emma
3. Ada
4. Eva
5. Olivia
6. Sophie
7. Saar
8. Anna
9. Mila
10. Fleur
11. Isa
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.
• January 16 » Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
• 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.
• April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
• April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
• May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
• August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

The temperature on January 1, 2018 was between 5.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.