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• Rafael Martijn Willem van Traa, Amsterdam

• Jacoba Moed (67), Enschede
• Annie Vermaat (88), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Annetje Neeltje Vermaat (88), 's-Gravenzande
• Deborah Jean Pace (61), Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Egbert van der Velde (78), Kampen
• Eugène Alphonse CAFFART (75), Fréjus, 83061, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France
• Hans (Simon Johannes Albertus) Knijnenburg (69), Zevenhuizen, Netherlands
• Helena Geertruida Maria van Klaarwater (72), Doetinchem
• Adriana Maria Wilhelmina Cornelissen (88)
• Hendrik Slagter (94), ,, Havelte, Westerveld, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 1989 » Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1990 » Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 » Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain
• 1990 » Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1990 » Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1991 » Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1998 » Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2000 » Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player

• 2010 » Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2012 » Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985)
• 2013 » Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2013 » Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (b. 1922)

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.
• March 20 » At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
• July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• September 7 » Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
• September 9 » The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.
• November 22 » Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
• December 26 » China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

The temperature on August 8, 2012 was between 12.4 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.