People from Netherlands

35 people remembered here.

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  Vincent van Gogh

  1853 – 1890 · Painter

  I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

  140 candles · 14 tributes
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  Peter Faber

  1943 – 2026 · Actor (stage

  Dutch stage and screen force who turned a hard childhood into art and a second chance for youth.

  95 candles · 8 tributes
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  Ben Saunders

  1983 – 2026 · Singer

  Tattoo Ben, first Voice of Holland winner, whose soul covers lit up Dutch charts overnight.

  80 candles · 6 tributes
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  Ahmed Ammi

  1981 – 2026 · Footballer (right-back)

  Limburg right-back who gave nearly 200 games to VVV, then poured the same care into Fortuna's youth.

  71 candles · 5 tributes
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  Elco Brinkman

  1948 – 2026 · Politician

  Dutch minister and CDA leader who coined the caring society and never reached the premiership.

  53 candles · 6 tributes
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  Bartina Koeman

  1961 – 2026 · Public figure

  Forty-one years beside Ronald Koeman, and a private strength made public by love.

  33 candles · 7 tributes
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  Tara Singh Varma

  1948 – 2026 · Dutch politician

  First woman of colour in the Dutch Tweede Kamer; Bijlmer inquiry member whose career ended in scandal.

  33 candles · 5 tributes
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  Guus Kouwenhoven

  1942 – 2026 · Businessman

  Dutch timber baron convicted over Liberia's war, who never served the sentence.

  31 candles · 9 tributes
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  Rinze Visser

  1938 – 2026 · Communist politician and municipal councillor

  Lemmer communist who served his town for 56 years, the longest serving councillor in the Netherlands.

  10 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sytze Faber

  1937 – 2026 · Political scientist

  Frisian independent thinker who served in parliament, led Hoogeveen and never stopped writing.

  9 candles · 1 tributes
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  Bram van Erkel

  1932 – 2026 · Television director and presenter

  Teacher turned television director who gave Dutch children Oebele and Q & Q.

  8 candles · 1 tributes
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  Rudi Fuchs

  1942 – 2026 · Art historian

  He led the Van Abbe, the Gemeentemuseum and the Stedelijk, and taught a nation to look.

  8 candles · 1 tributes
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  Maarten Spanjer

  1952 – 2026 · Actor

  Dutch actor and writer, the disguised driver of Taxi and the young rider of Spetters.

  8 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ina Klaassen

  1969 – 2026 · Museum director

  Rotterdam museum director who steered Boijmans Van Beuningen through its Depot and renewal.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Henk van der Bijl

  1925 – 2026 · Footballer (goalkeeper)

  Feyenoord's flying tiger in goal, the club's oldest player at 101.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Rini Wagtmans

  1946 – 2026 · Road bicycle racer

  Dutch Tour stage winner known as Witte Bles, the white blaze.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jerney Kaagman

  1947 – 2026 · Singer (Earth and Fire)

  The voice of Earth and Fire and a lifelong champion of Dutch musicians.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Mieke Sterk

  1946 – 2026 · Athlete and politician

  An Olympic sprinter who spoke her mind on the track, in protest and in parliament.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Coos Huijsen

  1939 – 2026 · Dutch politician

  The world's first openly gay parliamentarian, who made gay rights a question of human rights.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sjoerd Kuyper

  1952 – 2026 · Children's and youth author

  Dutch children's author of Het zakmes and the Robin books.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Peter Nieuwenhuis

  1951 – 2026 · Track cyclist

  Dutch Olympic track cyclist, 1973 world team-pursuit medallist, and long-serving national coach and federation director.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Cees Nooteboom

  1933 – 2026 · Novelist

  Dutch novelist, poet and traveller whose books carried readers across Europe and the world.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Guido Jonckers

  1947 – 2026 · Actor

  The voice of Boes and a Hague theatre maker who never ranked the professional stage above the amateur.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Lizzy van Leeuwen

  1958 – 2026 · Cultural anthropologist

  Anthropologist and writer who told the Netherlands hard truths about its Indisch and colonial past.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ellen Meliesie

  1963 – 2026 · Rower

  World champion rower from Zwolle who never left the water, or the people she taught.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Henk Cornelisse

  1940 – 2026 · Racing cyclist

  Amsterdam paver turned Olympic medallist, who rode to bronze for the Netherlands in Tokyo in 1964.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jan Roelof Kruithof

  1936 – 2026 · Marathon speed skater

  Dutch marathon skater, nine-time Alternatieve Elfstedentocht winner.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  John Bröcheler

  1945 – 2026 · Operatic bass-baritone and concert singer

  Dutch bass-baritone who carried Vaals choir roots to Glyndebourne, La Scala, and the strangest new scores.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jacques Wallage

  1946 – 2026 · Politician

  Labour leader in the House and a much loved mayor of Groningen.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Romano Hummel

  1999 – 2026 · Long track and grasstrack motorcycle racer

  2021 long track world champion and three-time European grasstrack champion from Hoogkerk. Rider 666, father of two.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Hans Bulte

  1937 – 2026 · Politician (mayor) and teacher

  North Holland mayor who brought calm to Volendam after the 2001 café fire.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Paulien Cornelisse

  1976 – 2026 · Writer

  Dutch writer and cabaretier who turned everyday language into a national comic pastime.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Frank Pieter Israel

  1946 – 2026 · Astronomer

  Leiden astronomer who modelled star-forming regions and championed sceptical inquiry.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Robert Szreder

  1946 – 2026 · Violinist and violin pedagogue

  Polish-born violinist who rebuilt his art in the Netherlands and taught generations in Maastricht.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Tony Scott

  1971 – 2026 · Rapper

  Dutch hip-house pioneer of Get Into It who taught Amsterdam youth with RAPucation

  3 candles · 1 tributes