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• Wessel Rietbergen, Tiel (gelderland) Nederland
• Roxanne Charissa van Blokland († 2011)

• Berendina Schimmel (81), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardus Reinier Maria Stolk (80), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Boom (79), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert ten Bruggencate (82), Saint Thomas, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
• Coenraad Moulijn (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carole Creupelandt (22), Aalst
• Cornelis Jacobus van Schaik (51)
• Anne Johan van Beek (62), Beekbergen
• Bernadette Marie Eugénie BRIDEL (82), Mansigne, 72182, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France
• Alida Petronella Chardet (89), Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1985 » Gökhan Gönül, Turkish footballer
• 1985 » Kari Aalvik Grimsbø, Norwegian handball player
• 1986 » James Milner, English footballer
• 1986 » Younès Kaboul, French footballer
• 1989 » Graham Rahal, American race car driver
• 1990 » Toni Kroos, German footballer
• 1992 » Kris Bryant, American baseball player
• 1994 » Derrick Henry, American football player
• 1997 » Ante Žižić, Croatian basketball player
• 1998 » Liza Soberano, Filipina actress

• 2009 » Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright, and author (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer (b. 1916)
• 2011 » Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 2011 » Salmaan Taseer, Pakistani businessman and politician, 26th Governor of Punjab, Pakistan (b. 1944)
• 2012 » Eve Arnold, American photographer and journalist (b. 1912)
• 2012 » Rod Robbie, English-Canadian architect, designed the Canadian Pavilion and Rogers Centre (b. 1928)
• 2013 » Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1951)

• 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 21 » Anti government demonstrations take place in Tirana, Albania. Five people lose their lives from gunshots, allegedly fired from armed police protecting the Prime Minister's office. To date, no one has been held accountable for the deaths.
• March 15 » Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
• September 18 » The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
• September 19 » Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader with 602.
• November 12 » A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
• December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

The temperature on January 4, 2011 was between -0.1 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.