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• Elisabeth Modder (98), Midwoud
• Neeltje van der Leer (92), Zoetermeer(ZH)
• John Monson TAYLOR (81), Utah, United States of America
• Simona Lapere (93), Oostnieuwkerke
• Dorothy Thelma Schmidt (94), Redfield, Spink County, South Dakota
• Janna Maria (Jannie) van Veen (97), Gouda
• Hendrik ZOONS (85), Maaseik,3680,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Bonnie Pearl Tinsley (77)
• suzanna willemijntje de KIEVIT (94), rockanje
• Frans Amaury De Wil (95), Erps Kwerps, 3071 (Home Olv Lourdes)

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 2014 » Ed Joyce, American journalist (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (b. 1921)
• 2015 » Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Jack Spring, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2015 » Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
• 2016 » Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
• 2016 » David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
• 2016 » Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
• 2016 » Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (b. 1930)
• 2017 » Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (b. 1924)

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

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 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
• February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
• 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.
• 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.
• May 25 » The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
• 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 August 2, 2018 was between 14.5 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 22.6 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.