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Dutch people who are famous or notable include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
By taking the total of all people with full Dutch ancestry, according to the current CBS definition (both parents born in the Netherlands), resulting in an estimated 16,000,000 Dutch people, [note 1] or by the sum of all people worldwide with both full and partial Dutch ancestry, which would result in a number around 33,000,000.
Lately, many of the larger cities in the U.S. have a King's Day festival that is celebrated in the Netherlands on April 27 to celebrate the birthday of King Willem Alexander. The Portland Dutch Society [ 50 ] started this annual Dutch Holiday celebration in Portland, OR in 2013 and will have one again in 2015 on April 26.
She was also called Beatrix de Gelukkige (Beatrix the lucky one). The flood itself, first recording the loss of 18 villages, by 1677 had grown to encompass 72 villages. Today the story of the "cat in the cradle" is told at Kinderdijk , near Rotterdam , while the 1490 painting is said to have been donated as an altarpiece by the town of ...
She is the oldest person ever from the Netherlands, breaking the previous record of Catharina van Dam on 26 September 2003, and from 29 May 2004 was the oldest verified person in the world. She became the oldest living person in the Netherlands on 16 February 2001 , at the age of 110 years and 232 days.
Theo Heemskerk (1852–1932), politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1908–1913 Simon Heere Heeresma (1932–2011), author and poet Pieter Heerma (born 1977), politicus
"It's really special to be in a place where all people have red hair, everywhere you look," the 21-year-old said. Redheads make up 1% to 2% of the world’s population and 2% to 6% of people with ...
Koningsdag (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkoːnɪŋzdɑx] ⓘ) or King's Day is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Celebrated on 27 April (26 April if the 27th is a Sunday), the date marks the birth of King Willem-Alexander . [ 1 ]