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• Geeske Remkes Wijnstra (88), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Gerrit Douwes LUCHTENBERG (84), Drachten (Smallingerland) Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Maria Geziena (Ans) Lubbers (86), Breda, NB, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Maria Frijters (67), Gilze en Rijen
• Grace Elisabeth Plomp (81), Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
• Eddy Jay Kuiken (55), Canyon Lake, California, Verenigde Staten
• Franciscus Christiaan Hendricus Manders (96), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gerrit Luchtenberg (84), Drachten
• Henri Maria Gustave Stolk (77), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Anita Rhelda Smith (91), Brownwood, Brown, Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1990 » Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
• 1992 » Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1993 » Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Dakota Fanning, American actress
• 1995 » Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
• 1996 » D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
• 1997 » Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player

• 2008 » Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian economist and politician, 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
• 2010 » Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
• 2011 » Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
• 2012 » David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919)
• 2012 » William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922)
• 2013 » Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945)

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. Maria
16. Noa

• 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 1 » A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
• February 13 » For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
• 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.
• April 6 » In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.
• May 2 » Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• August 26 » The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.

The temperature on February 23, 2011 was between -2.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.