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• Hannah Louise Fransje van Rossem

• Berend Heller (70), De Meerdijk, Emmen
• Cindy L. Shuffelen (42), Tacoma (Pierce County)(Californië)(VS)
• Frans Poelstra (85), Rotterdam
• Bernardus Johannes Alsemgeest (66), London (Ontario Canada)
• Elly Philippine van der Woude (87), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Visscher (82)
• Alberdina Muskee (92)
• Edward William Paschik (83), Summit, Union, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Fijtje Vijfhuizen (93), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adeline Helena Huberta Maria de Wolff van Metternich ter Gracht (90), Satzvey, Nordrhein-Westfalen

• 1989 » Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 » Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
• 1991 » Emre Colak, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
• 1992 » Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
• 1992 » Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1993 » Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
• 1996 » Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
• 1998 » Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

• 2008 » Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
• 2009 » Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Lucy Gordon, American actress and model (b. 1980)
• 2009 » Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 2011 » Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
• 2012 » David Littman, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1933)
• 2012 » Eugene Polley, American engineer, invented the remote control (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Ken Lyons, American bass guitarist (b. 1953)
• 2012 » Leela Dube, Indian anthropologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Robin Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1949)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Djess
4. Lars
5. Jens
6. Canryn
7. Jayden
8. Levi
9. Jan
10. Sem
11. Liam
12. Milan
13. Daan
14. Christian
15. Julian
16. Mees

1. Lieke
2. Emma
3. Lotte
4. Anna
5. Ella
6. Jitte
7. Julia
8. Fleur
9. Jasmijn
10. Eva
11. Indi
12. Lisa
13. Maria
14. Amber
15. Lynn
16. Sanne

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• February 15 » Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
• March 11 » Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
• April 10 » Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
• May 14 » Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135.
• May 15 » Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
• July 23 » English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.

The temperature on May 20, 2010 was between 3.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.