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• Delores BRASKET (76), Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Franciscus Henricus van Dorst (78), Wouwse Plantage,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Femmigje Bosma (92), Oosterwolde
• Elisabeth Maria Antonia Eline Tholen (89), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geertruida den Hartog (87), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Harold Leroy Oldenkamp (84), Riverside, Californie, V.S
• Elizabeth Louman (82), Vlijmen,Gemeente Heusden,Noord Holland Brabant,Nederland
• Anna Adriana de Waard (87)
• Aubrey Jay VanOsdol (78)
• Gerhardus Alphonsus Marie Wortelboer (84), Ootmarsum, Ov, Nederland

• 1973 » Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player
• 1976 » Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1981 » Asante Samuel, American football player
• 1982 » Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model
• 1984 » Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian
• 1986 » Paul McShane, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Petter Northug, Norwegian skier
• 1989 » Andy Carroll, English footballer
• 1991 » Will Barton, American basketball player
• 1994 » Lim Jae-beom, South Korean singer and actor (Got7)

• 2016 » Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer and architect (b. 1948)
• 2016 » Florence King, American journalist and author (b. 1936)
• 2016 » Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2016 » Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (b. 1925)
• 2017 » Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1923)
• 2017 » Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
• 2019 » José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)
• 2019 » Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor (b. 1942)
• 2019 » Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (b. 1917)
• 2019 » W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (b. 1932)

• 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.
• January 23 » A 7.9 M_w  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
• January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
• 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.
• September 28 » The 7.5 M_w 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
• November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.

The temperature on January 6, 2018 was between 2.2 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.