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• Gijsbertus Vincentius Willem Lodewijk van ROOIJ (80), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Maria Theresia (Bep) Menken (81), Voorschoten, Nederland
• Ginette Jacqueline Anyca (71), Roeselare
• Aafje Hendrika ten KLEIJ (89), Appingendam
• Fennegien Clasina PATERNOTTE (84), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Cornelia Achterberg (92)
• Hans-Joachim Krahl
• Adrianus Horst van der (82), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ethel de Jong (85), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Dimphna Mechelina Broeders (76), Gilze en Rijen

• 1985 » Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 » Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 » DeAngelo Smith, American football player
• 1986 » Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
• 1987 » Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1987 » Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 1994 » Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
• 1994 » Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter
• 1998 » Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower

• 2007 » Grant Forsberg, American actor and businessman (b. 1959)
• 2009 » Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927)
• 2009 » Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (b. 1916)
• 2010 » Larry Keith, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2011 » David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
• 2012 » İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish-American composer and producer (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Forrest S. McCartney, American general (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Marsha Singh, Indian-English politician (b. 1954)
• 2012 » Richard Evatt, English boxer (b. 1973)
• 2012 » William Raspberry, American journalist and academic (b. 1935)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Djess
4. Jens
5. Lars
6. Canryn
7. Jayden
8. Jan
9. Levi
10. Liam
11. Sem
12. Daan
13. Milan
14. Christian
15. Julian
16. Stijn

1. Lieke
2. Emma
3. Lotte
4. Anna
5. Ella
6. Jitte
7. Fleur
8. Julia
9. Jasmijn
10. Eva
11. Indi
12. Lisa
13. Maria
14. Sanne
15. Amber
16. Lynn

• 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.
• May 6 » In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
• May 12 » Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board.
• May 21 » JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
• August 19 » Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
• September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
• October 10 » The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

The temperature on July 17, 2010 was between 11.8 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.