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• Frederik Hendrik Drost (74), Julianadorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elaine Katherine Schmid (89), Hibbing, St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States of America
• Berendina Maria Grada Reintjes (75), Lelystad
• Camela Diane CONDE (68)
• Hendrik Koning (87), Dokkum
• Anna Maria Helena (Mine) Möhlmann (88)
• Cornelia Maria van den Berg (95), Nieuw-Vennep
• Gertrudis Maria Anna Collaris (75), Brunssum
• Anna Braem (92), Purmerend, Nederland
• Bernardina van der Meijde (87), Schoonebeek

• 1989 » Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter and musician
• 1990 » Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player
• 1991 » Jack De Belin, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » John Boyega, English actor
• 1992 » Patrick Cantlay, American golfer
• 1993 » Matteo Bianchetti, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Dean Britt, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ashley Taylor, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Katie Ledecky, American swimmer

• 2013 » Lawrence Fuchs, American scholar and academic (b. 1927)
• 2013 » William B. Caldwell III, American general (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Joseph Kerman, American musicologist and critic (b. 1924)
• 2014 » Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (b. 1974)
• 2014 » Rachel Lambert Mellon, American gardener, philanthropist, art collector and political patron (b. 1910)
• 2015 » Frank Perris, Canadian motorcycle racer (b. 1931)
• 2016 » Meir Dagan, Israeli general (b. 1945)
• 2016 » Zoltán Kamondi, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1960)
• 2018 » Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian (b. 1954)
• 2018 » Phan Văn Khải, the fifth Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1933)

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

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.
• February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
• April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
• 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.
• September 28 » The 7.5 M_w 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
• December 31 » Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-storey building collapsed in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

The average temperature on March 17, 2018 was -1.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.