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• Anna Maria Catharina (Mia) Vosbeek (89), Venlo,Gemeente Venlo
• Derk Dekker (93)
• Clara May Middleton (78), Roswell, Chaves, New Mexico, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje (Zus) Pater (79)
• Aafke Douma (80), Hardegarijp, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharine Louisa Elisabeth Cornel (61), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Sturing (90), Assen
• Dorothy L. Nelson (88), Eau Claire
• Cornelis Andries REICHHOLDT (89)
• Drikus Kronenburg (90), Tiel

• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1994 » Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
• 1996 » Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress

• 2011 » Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2011 » Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
• 2011 » Robert Vickrey, American artist and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer (b. 1948)
• 2012 » J. Quinn Brisben, American educator and politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 » Jonathan V. Plaut, American rabbi and author (b. 1942)
• 2012 » Leila Berg, English journalist and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 » Nityananda Mohapatra, Indian journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1912)
• 2012 » Stanley Rogers Resor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 9th United States Secretary of the Army (b. 1917)
• 2013 » Carlos Graça, São Toméan politician, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1931)

1. Tim
2. Lucas
3. Thomas
4. Chris
5. Daan
6. Liam
7. Jesse
8. Lars
9. Sem
10. Luuk
11. Thijs
12. Levi
13. Milan
14. Julian
15. Gijs
16. Finn

1. Lenthe
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Eva
8. Charlotte
9. Elise
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Zoi
13. Tess
14. Lisa
15. Noa
16. Maria

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• January 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 people.
• April 19 » Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
• April 27 » The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
• April 29 » The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
• July 21 » NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
• October 31 » The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.

The temperature on April 17, 2011 was between 7.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.