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• Sieme ten Veen (80), Meppel
• Lodewijk van der Noll (71), Kampen
• Alida Scholte (86), Lisse
• Joyce Arlene Dyreson (86), Rochester Township, Olmsted, Minnesota, VS
• Gesine Kortman (82), Nieuw-Amsterdam, Drenthe, Nederland
• Pieter Antonius van Es (93), BINNENMAAS, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bregtje de Groot (71), Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ime Wiebes Bergsma (94)
• Cornelia Alida Voogd (57)
• johannes petrus josephus (jan) naus (83), heibloem (gemeente roggel)

• 1988 » Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer
• 1989 » Moussa Sissoko, French footballer
• 1989 » Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
• 1990 » Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player
• 1993 » Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model
• 1996 » Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
• 1997 » Greyson Chance, American musician
• 1999 » Karen Chen, American figure skater

• 2014 » Patrick Aziza, Nigerian general and politician, Governor of Kebbi State (b. 1947)
• 2015 » Anna Kashfi, British actress (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1947)
• 2015 » Mile Mrkšić, Serb general (b. 1947)
• 2015 » Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (b. 1943)
• 2016 » João Havelange, Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1916)
• 2016 » John McLaughlin, American television personality (b. 1927)
• 2018 » Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2018 » Wakako Yamauchi, American-Japanese writer (b. 1924)
• 2019 » Peter Fonda, American actor, director, and screenwriter. (b. 1940)

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

1. Julia
2. Emma
3. Ada
4. Eva
5. Olivia
6. Sophie
7. Anna
8. Saar
9. Fleur
10. Mila
11. Isa
12. Elizabeth
13. Nora
14. Lauren
15. Tessa
16. Maria

• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 August 16, 2018 was between 14.9 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.