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• Enne Bouwes Feenstra (79), Tijnje, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Frank Groenewold (83), Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Helena Margaretha Petronella Westdijk (74), Goes
• Clarence John HOWLETT (77), Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
• Henri Maria Gustave Stolk (77), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Maria Geziena (Ans) Lubbers (86), Breda, NB, Nederland
• Aaltje Smit (84), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gladys F. Rongen (68), Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Han Keijzer (81), Den Helder
• Bernard CHATELAIN (72), Epinal

• 1990 » Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
• 1992 » Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1993 » Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Dakota Fanning, American actress
• 1995 » Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
• 1996 » D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
• 1997 » Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player

• 2008 » Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian economist and politician, 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
• 2010 » Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
• 2011 » Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
• 2012 » David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919)
• 2012 » William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922)
• 2013 » Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945)

1. Tim
2. Lucas
3. Thomas
4. Chris
5. Daan
6. Liam
7. Jesse
8. Lars
9. Sem
10. Luuk
11. Thijs
12. Levi
13. Milan
14. Julian
15. Gijs
16. Finn

1. Lenthe
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Eva
8. Charlotte
9. Elise
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Zoi
13. Tess
14. Lisa
15. Maria
16. Noa

• 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, 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.
• January 8 » The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.
• March 11 » An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130km (81mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
• May 16 » STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
• July 8 » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
• September 12 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
• December 13 » A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.

The temperature on February 23, 2011 was between -2.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.