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• Daniël Willem Roelof de Leeuw († 2011)

• Aleida Elisabeth van Empelen (89), Soest, Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Andreas Johannes WINDER (85), Alkmaar
• Cees Alexander Krabbendam (65), Aerdenhout, gem. Bloemendaal, NH, Nederland
• Bernice Davenport (95), Charles City, Floyd, Iowa (USA)
• Cornelia Rombouts (91), Etten-Leur
• Aleida Elisabeth van Empelen (89)
• Alvin Azell Ragland (81), Los Angeles, Verenigde Staten
• Bernarda Brunink (97), Vriezenveen
• Adrianus Johannes Gerardus Brugmans (75), Gemeente Son en Breugel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Arnoldus van Houdt (81), Veghel

• 1994 » Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
• 1996 » Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
• 1996 » Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
• 1996 » Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer
• 1997 » Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
• 1997 » Dean Henderson, English footballer
• 1997 » Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
• 1998 » Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
• 1998 » Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
• 1998 » Mecole Hardman, American football player

• 2008 » Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949)
• 2008 » Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897)
• 2010 » Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2011 » Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2012 » Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946)
• 2013 » Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1957)
• 2013 » Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2013 » Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936)

• 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 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 1 » After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
• April 11 » An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
• May 2 » An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
• November 8 » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

The temperature on March 12, 2011 was between 0.7 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.