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• Jan Johannes Dani van Pijkeren († 2010)
• Fay Rose Martha Bangma, Emmeloord (NOP) († 2010)

• Cornelis Johannes van Haastert (94), Hellevoetsluis
• Aaltje Woldman (86), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Don William Fugate (84), Linden, Montgomery County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Berendina Johanna Holland (86), Vriezenveen
• Donald Lee Todd (77), Nelsonville, Athens County, Ohio
• Cornelia Maria te Buck (80), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Mos (80), Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Mos (80), Katwijk
• Adriana van den Hoven (85), Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Tijsse Mos (80), Katwijk

• 1992 » Gary Sánchez, Dominican baseball player
• 1993 » Haruka Ishida, Japanese singer and actress
• 1993 » Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer
• 1994 » Cauley Woodrow, English footballer
• 1994 » Fumika Shimizu, Japanese actress and model
• 1994 » Tomokaze Yūta, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1995 » Inori Minase, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
• 1995 » Joe Stimson, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarusian trampolinist
• 1998 » Juice Wrld, American rapper († 2019)

• 2007 » Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Jennifer Alexander, Canadian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1972)
• 2008 » Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian lawyer and businessman (b. 1933)
• 2008 » Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Renato de Grandis, Italian composer, musicologist, and writer (b. 1927)
• 2009 » Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 2009 » Foge Fazio, American football player and coach (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Ehsan Naraghi, Iranian sociologist and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Tom Hendry, Canadian playwright, co-founded the Manitoba Theatre Centre (b. 1929)

• 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, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• February 13 » A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
• April 14 » Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
• May 31 » Israeli Shayetet 13 commandos boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while still in international waters trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip; nine Turkish citizens on the flotilla were killed in the ensuing violent affray.
• June 16 » Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
• July 23 » English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
• September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

The temperature on December 2, 2010 was between -7.9 °C and -6.1 °C and averaged -6.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.