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• Jearu Nagtegaal, Filipijnen

• Donald Lee Klyn (72), Sonoma, California, VS
• Aleida Geertruida ZWEERINK (88), Terborg, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Diederik Frederik Steven Helin Baron van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (78), Londen
• Elward Lee Pitchford (54)
• Arie van der BurgH (90), unbekannt
• Alida Maria Vergunst (70)
• Antonius Andreas Johannes Overwijn (84), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Cornelia de Bruijn (73), Tjallebert
• Edgard Eduard Ghislenus Hechtermans (74), Alken, België
• Adrianus Johannes Hubertus Maria Akkermans (74), Esch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1977 » Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
• 1979 » Jonathan Greening English footballer
• 1981 » Maxi Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 » Kate Bosworth, American actress
• 1987 » Robert Milsom, English footballer
• 1988 » Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
• 1992 » Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
• 1992 » Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentinian footballer, goalkeeper
• 1998 » Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer

• 2009 » Dnyaneshwar Agashe, Indian businessman and cricketer (b. 1942)
• 2009 » Inger Christensen, Danish poet and author (b. 1935)
• 2010 » David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (b. 1958)
• 2011 » Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
• 2011 » Bali Ram Bhagat, Indian politician; 16th Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1922)
• 2011 » Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
• 2012 » Gordon Hirabayashi, American-Canadian sociologist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer (b. 1953)
• 2012 » William P. Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)

• 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.
• February 17 » Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
• March 11 » An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130km (81mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
• March 15 » Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
• March 19 » Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
• May 21 » Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
• November 23 » Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.

The temperature on January 2, 2011 was between -0.7 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.