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• Cornelia Maria Scholtes (93)
• Bobbie Jean Batt (66), Cadillac, Wexford County, Michigan, United States of America
• Gerrit Bernard Feekes (90), Avoca, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
• Betty TURNER (89), Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, United States of America
• Bouwe Zylstra (94), Strathmere Lodge
• George Peter Ebbesen (86)
• Adriana Johanna Aerden (99), Oost Souburg
• Albertine Johanna Henriette Kymmell (91), Aerdenhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Helmut* Willi Plat (68), Ochtrup
• Emma Corene van der Stoep (92), Orange City, Iowa, Verenigde Staten

• 1989 » Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1989 » Michael Beasley, American basketball player
• 1989 » Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• 1989 » Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete
• 1990 » Justin Blackmon, American football player
• 1991 » Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Edon Hasani, Albanian football player
• 1992 » Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer
• 1993 » Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete
• 1999 » Shannon Tavarez, American actress († 2010)

• 2015 » Bud Paxson, American broadcaster and businessman, founded the Home Shopping Network and Pax TV (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
• 2015 » Michel Jeury, French author (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (b. 1929)
• 2016 » Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (b. 1926)
• 2016 » John Harvard, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b. 1938)
• 2017 » Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist (b. 1925)
• 2018 » Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league player (b. 1994)
• 2019 » Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (b. 1944)
• 2019 » Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938)

• 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 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
• January 13 » A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the state.
• April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
• September 20 » At least 161 people die after a ferry capsized close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria and part of Tanzania.
• November 26 » The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
• December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

The temperature on January 9, 2018 was between -0.2 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.