About the day » Monday December 17, 2012Calender converter

• Rebecca Jansen († 2013)

• Birgitta Adrianne Arnolda Maria Custers (54), Best, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Driek Keulen (71)
• Anthonius Marinus Fens (87), Made
• Cornelia Heij (79)
• Cornelis Jan Hazendonk (72), Hagestein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ella Bernice Farmer (93), St Clair County, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Petronella Verberne (62), Schagen
• Bart Dekkers (59), Huijbergen
• Cees Bierkens (86), Oud-Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Doroyhy Pauline Kilson (94), Shell Rock, Butler County, Iowa

• 1992 » Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist
• 1992 » Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
• 1993 » Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
• 1994 » Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor
• 1996 » Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
• 1997 » Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
• 1998 » Jasmine Armfield, English actress
• 1998 » Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer

• 2011 » Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983)
• 2011 » Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)
• 2012 » Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (b. 1957)
• 2012 » James Gower, American priest and activist, co-founded the College of the Atlantic (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947)
• 2013 » Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929)
• 2013 » Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Richard Heffner, American historian and television host (b. 1925)

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.
• April 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
• May 25 » The SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
• June 16 » The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
• September 11 » A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
• November 13 » A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific
• December 26 » China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

The temperature on December 17, 2012 was between 4.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.