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• IJsbrand van der Velden (93), Vlaardingen
• Hieke Sietzes Bakker (91), Terschelling, Fryslân, Nederland
• Clemens Willenborg (75), Cuijk
• Elisabeth A.M. Luermans (76), Nijmegen
• Eloisa Valenzuela (98), Texas, United States of America
• Egbert Bartelds (80), Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Jan
• Claar J A Jans (86), Echt, Netherlands
• Dirkje Menke (93)
• Fredericus Paul Brosse (72), Almere

• 1984 » Alastair Cook, English cricketer
• 1984 » Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
• 1985 » Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner
• 1985 » Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional wrestler
• 1987 » Ceyhun Gülselam, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Demaryius Thomas, American football player
• 1988 » Eric Gordon, American basketball player
• 1988 » Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player
• 1992 » Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 2014 » David Ryall, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Ricardo Porro, Cuban-French architect (b. 1925)
• 2015 » Dorothy M. Murdock, American author and historian (b. 1961)
• 2015 » George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2016 » George Michael, British singer and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 2016 » Valery Khalilov, Russian military musician and composer (b. 1952)
• 2016 » Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928)
• 2017 » D. Herbert Lipson, American magazine publisher (Philadelphia, Boston)
• 2018 » Sulagitti Narasamma, Indian midwife (b. 1920)

1. Lucas
2. Benjamin
3. Tijn
4. Max
5. Jan
6. Levi
7. Mats
8. Boaz
9. Jesse
10. Alexander
11. Jacob
12. Thijs
13. Oscar
14. Noah
15. Ruben
16. Liam

1. Emma
2. Sophie
3. Olivia
4. Charlotte
5. Nora
6. Mila
7. Eva
8. Sara
9. Feline
10. Zoë
11. Isa
12. Femke
13. Julia
14. Lola
15. Ella
16. Anna

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 17.0 million citizens.
• January 8 » Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
• February 11 » A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
• March 19 » Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
• April 10 » The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
• October 13 » The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• December 19 » Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.

The temperature on December 25, 2016 was between 8.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.