About the day » Wednesday October 17, 2012Calender converter

• Dirk Korving (77), scheveningen
• Donald Marvin Dykema (93)
• Betje Van De Vin (82), Weert, Limburg Nederland
• Ena Marguerite Scipio (87), Rijswijk, Nederland
• Andreas Pieter Vandecasteele (82), Kortrijk
• Feronica Wilhelmina (Vroni) Kroon (83), Steenwijk
• Frans van Bree (69)
• Elizabeth A. Boon (76), 's-Gravenzande
• Fokje Tuinstra (78), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adam Jan Frans Jozef Maria DE ROY VAN ZUIJDEWIJN (84), 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 1990 » Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
• 1990 » Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
• 1990 » Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
• 1990 » Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
• 1991 » Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
• 1992 » Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
• 1992 » Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
• 1993 » Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
• 2001 » Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer

• 2011 » Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Émile Allais, French skier (b. 1912)
• 2012 » Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (b. 1930)
• 2012 » Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (b. 1951)
• 2012 » Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
• 2013 » Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (b. 1928)
• 2013 » Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (b. 1944)

1. Lucas
2. Nathan
3. Bram
4. Jan
5. Ruben
6. Finn
7. Liam
8. Thomas
9. Jesse
10. Milan
11. Daan
12. Levi
13. Thijs
14. Jacob
15. Sem
16. Luuk

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Sophie
6. Iris
7. Indy
8. Tessa
9. Julia
10. Olivia
11. Lieke
12. Lotte
13. Luisa
14. Charlotte
15. Roos
16. Eva

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
• February 7 » President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
• March 4 » A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
• May 25 » The SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
• May 30 » Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• June 16 » The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
• August 5 » The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.

The temperature on October 17, 2012 was between 7.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.