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• Jarno Hubertina Maria Schaap, Geleen

• Catharina Bos (73), Engelbert
• Clyde William SMART (83)
• Florence May Dobson (80), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Fiesler (88), Hengelo
• Alix Marie Isabelle Louise Ghislaine della FAILLE de LEVERGHEM (70), Anvaing, 7910, Hainaut, Belgique
• Francina Wilhelmina Kapteijns (75), Heeswijk, Bernheze
• Alix Marie Isabelle Louise Ghislaine gravin de Lannoy-della Faille de Leverghem della FAILLE (70), Bruxelles, 1000, Bruxelles-Capitale | Brussel-Hoofdstad, België
• Dientje Coppis (80), Rips, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alix Maria Isabelle Louise Ghislaine Della Faille de Levergem (70)
• Cristina Maria Castillo (94), Santa Bárbara do Oeste, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
• 1987 » Juan Joseph, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1988 » Danielle Savre, American actress
• 1988 » Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1988 » Evan Ross, American actor
• 1988 » Lars Stindl, German football player
• 1988 » Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » James Harden, American basketball player
• 1990 » Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 » Jessica Diggins, American cross-country skier

• 2011 » George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)
• 2011 » John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)
• 2011 » Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
• 2012 » Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (b. 1943)
• 2012 » Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940)
• 2012 » Reginald Bartholomew, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (b. 1929)
• 2013 » Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2013 » Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)
• 2013 » John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)

1. Nathan
2. Lucas
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.
• May 2 » A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
• May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
• June 16 » China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
• July 12 » A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
• September 27 » In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.
• November 15 » Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

The temperature on August 26, 2012 was between 10.5 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 21.9 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.