Following her abdication on 30 April 2013, she is referred to as Princess Beatrix. Kuyt missed only five games over seven seasons from 1999 until 2006 and appeared in 179 consecutive matches between 200106, striking up a fruitful partnership with fellow Feyenoord teammate Salomon Kalou. Time magazine declared Van der Sloot's arrest the top crime story of 2010. Between his 1905 painting, The River Amstel, and his 1907 Amaryllis, Mondrian changed the spelling of his signature from Mondriaan to Mondrian. He also enjoyed success with English songs, notably of which is "I'm Your Little Boy".

Hazes recorded 31 studio and live albums and he released 54 singles. She started working for the brand in 2004 and became an Angel in 2008. Marianne Vos, is a Dutch cyclo-cross, road bicycle racer and track racer who has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being "the finest cyclist of [her] generation". In April 2007 Tisto launched both his radio show Tisto's Club Life on Radio 538 in the Netherlands and released his third studio album Elements of Life. He subsequently served a second period in the European Parliament, where he devoted himself to working for the accession of Turkey to the European Union. After his first season with the Bavarian club, the player was also named Footballer of the Year in Germany. The last film he completed before his death, 06/05, was loosely based on the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. Hendrik Nikolaas Theodoor Simons, known as Heintje and later on as Hein Simons, is a Dutch singer and actor. After a year at Al Jazira, Cocu retired. After some disagreements at Barcelona, he was appointed coach of the Dutch national team, but then failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup. Going from world number 38 at the start of 2012 to number 4 at the beginning of 2013, the year included his first major PDC title at the Grand Prix and a final at the 2013 World Championship. Ibrahim Afellay is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for FC Barcelona in La Liga. His 2000 remix of Delerium's "Silence" featuring Sarah McLachlan exposed him to more mainstream audiences. After her breakthrough in 1997 with the single "Nobody's Wife", she had numerous hit singles in the Dutch and Belgian charts, such as "R U Kiddin' Me", "Michel", "Girl", "Lost", "Modern World", "Three Days in a Row" and "Woman". 1, a first for a dance music artist in Dutch music history. He became the club captain in 2005 and was a prolific goalscorer at the Rotterdam club; he was the club's top scorer for three consecutive seasons, the top goalscorer in the 200405 Eredivisie season, and the 200506 Dutch Footballer of the Year. She is a 3 times World Road Race Champion in 2006, 2012 and 2013. After a brief spell as coach at AZ, Van Gaal served as assistant coach under Leo Beenhakker at Ajax, and eventually took over as head coach in 1991. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He is a youth product of Feyenoord. Armin van Buuren is a Dutch trance music producer and DJ. On June 7, he confessed to causing the death of Flores Ramrez and was transferred on June 11 to Miguel Castro Castro maximum security prison in Lima. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations. Henk Otte is a film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor. A broken fibula disrupted his first season, but he became a first-team regular in the following four seasons. Having joined Arsenal in 2004, Van Persie became the club captain on 16 August 2011, one year before he joined rivals Manchester United. Upon her death at the age of 94, she was the longest-lived former ruling monarch in the world. In 1971, The Los Angeles Times described him as, "the hottest property in Europe." He is best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope and for his contributions towards the establishment of microbiology.

Following this, he left Utrecht in a 1 million transfer to Feyenoord. He made his Premier League debut late in 2006 and became part of the first team squad. He began playing darts at the age of 13 and had won the World Masters and thrown a televised nine-dart finish within four years, becoming the youngest player to do either. In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Thophile Thor-Brger, who published an essay attributing sixty-six pictures to him, although only thirty-four paintings are universally attributed to him today. Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial power. He has long been described as a darts prodigy. Anouk is regarded as the most popular female rock singer in the Netherlands. Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot, was a jurist in the Dutch Republic.

He was also named as one of two strikers in the UEFA Team of the Tournament. When he played for FC Bayern Munich he was the first non-German captain to win a German Championship title. He was the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 finalist. Schilt is known for using his enormous height and reach to his advantage through mastering the Ashihara Karate techniques, avoiding getting hit while landing devastating jabs and front kicks. He was formerly coach for Ajax, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich.

From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and signed his paintings as Bruegel.

He joined the Ajax youth academy as a youngster and worked his way through the ranks to make the first team at age 17. Since then, he has made one appearance for the Netherlands B team, and one appearance for the full national team. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. He was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year in 2007 and was appointed captain in 2010. Jakob "Jaap" Stam is a Dutch retired football player who is currently an assistant coach at his former club AFC Ajax. He was sold to Real Madrid for 27 million in 2007, winning La Liga in his first season with the club and later being sold to Internazionale for 15 million. Van Gogh spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, traveling between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught for a time in England. While playing in Portugal he was nicknamed O Lobo, although during his early days in the Netherlands he was known as HatRicky because of the number of hat-tricks he scored. Spinoza was raised in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. Babel began his career at Ajax in 1998, working his way up through the youth team and into the senior squad. He and his husband, Stephan Nugter, have adopted two children: son Kas and son Tobey. Huntelaar is a prolific striker with brilliant technique and athleticism and has been compared in style to players such as Marco van Basten and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Khalid Boulahrouz is a Dutch footballer of Berber Moroccan Rif descent, who plays for the Danish Superliga club Brndby IF. The breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death. Andr Hazes was one of the most successful singers in this genre. In March 2007, Sky Sports ranked Van Basten first on its list of great athletes who had their careers cut short. Paul Trijbits is a Dutch born film and television producer living in London, with his wife Patricia Kruijer and children Jakob and Lea. Named Dutch Football Talent of the Year and Ajax "Player of the Year" in 2006, Huntelaar was a part of the Dutch side that won the 2006 UEFA U-21 Championship where he became the tournament's leading goalscorer. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist. Later, he moved to the south of France and was influenced by the strong sunlight he found there. The son of two artists, Van Persie was encouraged to follow in his parents' footsteps, but he instead preferred football and joined SBV Excelsior's youth squad. She has won five Golden Calf Awards for Best Actress for her roles in Suzy Q, Undercover Kitty, Black Book, De Gelukkige Huisvrouw and for Black Butterflies. Marcel "Marco" van Basten is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played for Ajax and Milan, as well as the Dutch national team, in the 1980s and early 1990s. At his return to PSV in 2004, he was the foreign player with the most league appearances for Barcelona. He is known for "constantly racing up and down his right flank, making runs, tracking back, harrying opponents and generally battling to create space." Though satire was only a part of these shows and much of its humour was essentially harmless, he came into publicity with satire about Dutch show business personalities who were often ridiculed.

In 2012, Guitar World's poll named him as the greatest guitarist of all time. Two years later he signed for PSV, where he became the Netherlands' Young Player of the Year and won an Eredivisie title. He is known for mostly playing progressive trance and uplifting trance. He went to public primary and secondary schools, served in the Royal Netherlands Navy, and studied history at Leiden University. He became particularly famous as a child singer, with hit song "Mama" in 1967, and as a child actor, with his appearances in numerous German films in the 1960s and 1970s. Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart is a Dutch footballer who plays for and is the current captain of the German Bundesliga club Hamburger SV and the Dutch national team. As of January 2013, Schilt is ranked the #1 heavyweight in the world by LiverKick.com. 1 ranked Dutch player on the ATP Tour. On 2 November 2004 he was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim. He also hosts his own weekly radio show, Corsten's Countdown. Andr Gerardus Hazes was a Dutch singer in a genre called levenslied, popular music about everyday life sung in the Dutch language. Although an injury blighted the end of his days with Madrid, he did win La Liga twice and the Supercopa de Espaa before signing for Hamburger SV during the January transfer window in 2010. He was a versatile player, playing in numerous positions during his career. According to his doctor, Dr. Wolfgang Koller, even though he was trapped for a relatively short time and hopes had originally been higher, subsequent neurological tests showed that after fifty minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in moderate hypothermia he suffered massive brain damage due to oxygen shortage.

Rus' biggest successes to date are a second round shocker over World No. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. Producer Addy Kleijngeld heard about him and went to audition him at his home. Prince Claus died in 2002. He is considered, by critics and fellow players, as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. Louis van Gaal OON is a Dutch football manager who is the current manager of the Dutch national team. VARA has since continued his shows apart from a few interruptions, often with considerable success. Erasmus emphasized a middle way, with a deep respect for traditional faith, piety and grace, and rejected Luther's emphasis on faith alone.

Wilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. In 1999 and 2000 Tisto collaborated with Ferry Corsten to create Gouryella. The same article quoted the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as saying of him, "No one is bigger in German show business.".

He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1968. His palette at the time consisted mainly of somber earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid coloration that distinguished his later work.

His time at Hoffenheim was marred with disciplinary problems with three managers at the club. Marie-Jose van der Kolk also known by her stage names Loona and Carisma, is a Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer.

Van der Vaart is well known for his passing, and the capacity to use both feet well. He can play as a striker or left winger. She is commemorated in space, in the name of the asteroid 816 Juliana. His son Jordi has also gone on to play football professionally. Van Gaal moved to Barcelona in 1997 and won two Spanish league titles and one Spanish Cup. Rutgerus Johannes Martinus "Ruud" van Nistelrooij is a retired Dutch footballer. The following season Robben's signature was pursued by leading English clubs, and after protracted transfer negotiations he joined Chelsea in the 2004 close season.

Mollema is a climbing specialist. Drenthe made 17 appearances for the Netherlands under-21s between 2006 and 2008, and was a member of the team that won the 2007 European Championship. His film credits include Flesh+Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Escape from Sobibor, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, and The Rite.

Van der Sar also won the UEFA Cup with Ajax in 1992.

In the early nineties, Paul de Leeuw also had some shows celebrating the new year. Edwin van der Sar OON is a Dutch former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. He made his debut for the Dutch national team in February 2009, and participated in the Netherlands' silver winning performance at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. In the Ethics, "Spinoza wrote the last indisputable Latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely." Beatrix's reign saw the country's Caribbean possessions reshaped with Aruba's secession and becoming its own constituent country within the Kingdom in 1986 as well as the subsequent Antillean Dissolution in 2010, which created the new special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, and the two new constituent countries of Curaao and Sint Maarten. He also played at the 2006 World Cup, as well as the 1996, 2000 and 2004 European Championships.

After making his way through the various youth levels at the club, Van Ginkel debuted for the senior team in 2010 before sealing a transfer around 8 million to Chelsea in 2013.

Kevin Strootman is a Dutch international footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for Italian Serie A club Roma. Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter.

He has also competed in mixed-martial arts fights for the Pride Fighting Championship, UFC and Pancrase organizations. In 2004, a nationwide poll was held for the 100 greatest Dutch people and Van Basten was number 25, the second highest for a football player, behind Johan Cruyff.

He was named UEFA midfielder of the season and one of the three best midfielders in the world for 2010 by FIFA. He is also a part of the Netherlands national team and has appeared at Euro 2004, the 2006 World Cup, Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012. Dirk Klaas Jan "Klaas-Jan" Huntelaar, nicknamed The Hunter, is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Schalke 04 and the Dutch national football team.

His preferred position is as an attacking midfielder; he can, however, also operate in other positions, such as second striker. In 2012 she came in fifth on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $6.9 million in one year. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian was a Dutch painter. As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He is currently the #2 DJ on DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs poll for 2013. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative. Citing irreconcilable differences over the party's position on the accession of Turkey to the European Union, he left the VVD in 2004 to form his own party, the Party for Freedom. Christiaan Huygens, FRS was a prominent Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher. He is the younger brother of former Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman and the son of former Dutch international Martin Koeman. His FIFA World Cup profile describes him as "a tackling machine and expert ball-winner, but he also boasts a fine array of passes and a powerful shot, having been a free-kick specialist during his PSV days." Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager and former player, regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the footballing history and one of best players of his generation. During his five years in Madrid, he made 65 appearances for the club, spending time on loan at La Liga side Hrcules and English Premier League side Everton, making 19 and 27 appearances for those clubs respectively. At Inter, he won Serie A, the UEFA Champions League, the FIFA Club World Cup, and two Coppa Italia. It was at Arsenal where Bergkamp rejuvenated his career, helping the club to win three Premier League titles, four FA Cup trophies and reach the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final, which marked his last appearance as a player. He is a three-time Champions League top scorer, as well as a top scorer in three different European domestic leagues. He was named the Dutch Football Talent of the Year for the 200102 season.

Leeuwenhoek did not author any books; his discoveries came to light through correspondence with the Royal Society, which published his letters. In 1885, he painted his first major work The Potato Eaters. In the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the points race; in the 2012 Summer Olympics, gold in the women's road race. In the 200809 season he set the world league clean sheet record by not conceding a single goal for 1,311 minutes. Igor Sijsling is a Dutch professional tennis player. In the summer of 2012, Babel bought out the remaining final year of his contract, making him a free agent. In 1999, Cruyff was voted European Player of the Century in an election held by the IFFHS, and came second behind Pel in their World Player of the Century poll. Royston Ricky Drenthe is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Football League Championship side Reading in England. I know you are awesome, so why not make a donation using Paypal. Individually, he was awarded the 2010 Bronze Boot, the 2010 Silver Ball, and included in the team of the tournament for UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup, as well as named man of the match for six out of eleven games played by the Oranje at these two tournaments. Outside the Netherlands she is primarily remembered for her role in World War II, in which she proved to be a great inspiration to the Dutch resistance. Cocu reached the semi-finals in the latter two tournaments and in 2004, he served as captain of the Dutch team. countrylicious.com - nonprofit educational website. Additionally, his contributions to Arminian theology provided the seeds for later Arminian-based movements, such as Methodism and Pentecostalism and he is acknowledged as a significant figure in the Arminianism-Calvinism debate. In what became known as the "Glorious Revolution", on 5 November 1688 William invaded England in an action that ultimately deposed King James II & VII and won him the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland. Sylvie Franoise Meis is a Dutch television personality and model, also popular in Germany. He made his breakthrough at another hometown club Feyenoord, where he spent three seasons and won the 2002 UEFA Cup. As a singer, she released a pop-rock album entitled See You on the Ice in 2012. He was named Dutch Football Talent of the Year and became the first recipient of the Golden Boy Award while at the club.

He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

He came third in a vote organised by the French weekly magazine France Football consulting their former Ballon d'Or winners to elect their Football Player of the Century. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation album. Erasmus lived against the backdrop of the growing European religious Reformation; but while he was critical of the abuses within the Church and called for reform, he kept his distance from Luther and Melanchthon and continued to recognise the authority of the pope. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 56 goals. Babel was sold to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in January 2011, for a sum around half of that which Liverpool paid for him. He attempted to legally retract his confession, claiming that he had been intimidated by the National Police of Peru and framed by the FBI. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. She made her directorial debut with Bringing Up Bobby in 2011. He uses the name JXL in cases where the term Junkie might cause offense. At the 1960 French jazz festival of Juan-les-Pins, she received the title, "Europe's first lady of jazz". Says Holkenborg of his name, I called myself Junkie XL from the point of view that once youre completely overworked, you never want to go there again. Recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death; he was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting, and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries. Ferry Corsten, also known under the alias System F, is a Dutch producer of electronic dance music, in addition to being a DJ and remixer. He has been capped twice by the Netherlands national football team. Sneijder previously represented various youth squads for the Netherlands. After his retirement from playing in 1984, Cruyff became highly successful as manager of Ajax and later FC Barcelona; he remains an influential advisor to both clubs. He is coached by Dennis Schenk. After debuting in 2004, he represented PSV for eight seasons. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pel as part of FIFA's centenary observances.

He won the 200506 UEFA Champions League with FC Barcelona and was part of the team that finished runner-up of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands for almost 3 decades. Real Madrid then secured his services in 2006.

Carisma. De Jong moved on from Ajax in 2006 to join Hamburg in search of first team football and then moved to Manchester City in January 2009 for an estimated 18 million, where he became an important part of City's holding midfield. Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. Many Protestants heralded him as a champion of their faith. Cocu played for FC Barcelona between 1998 and 2004. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. As well as club trophies, he won several personal awards, inluding being voted best defender in the 199899 and 19992000 UEFA Champions League. Originally a wide midfielder, he was moved to main striker and then to second striker, where he remained throughout his playing career. He is one of the few footballers to have won the UEFA Champions League with two different teams with Ajax in 1995 and Manchester United in 2008; in the latter, he was also named UEFA Man of the Match.