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• Cornelia Adriana HONCOOP (87), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Adriana Honcoop (87), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hugo CALUWAERT (51), Jette,1090,Bruxelles,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Daniel Feys (77), Roeselare
• Estelle van Logten (48), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Harmpje Westhuis (93), Nunspeet
• Bernardus Maria Looijmans (66), Portugal
• Jacques Tokkie (74), Amsterdam
• Aldwijn Roy de gruiter (62), Etten-Leur
• Janna Brunnekreef (84)

• 1990 » Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
• 1992 » Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model
• 1993 » Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1993 » Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
• 1999 » Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 2000 » Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2000 » Steven Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2002 » Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater

• 2014 » Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
• 2014 » Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2015 » Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
• 2015 » Jean-François Théodore, French businessman (b. 1946)
• 2015 » Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2015 » T. J. Moran, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1930)
• 2017 » Chris Cornell, American singer (b. 1964)
• 2017 » Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (b. 1916)
• 2017 » Roger Ailes, American businessman (b. 1940)
• 2020 » Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer (b. 1943)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
• October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
• 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 May 18, 2018 was between 8.1 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.