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• johannes antonius (gijs) van der wallen, helmond
• Max Manning († 2011)
• Fleur TALIER, Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België

• Cyril Henry WISE (88)
• Francisca Cornelia van der Linden (88), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Delmar Lee Surby (89), Liberty, Callaway, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Kaptein (89), Den Helder
• Berendina Antonette Tel (42)
• Beulah Christine FERGUSON (73), Charlottetown, Queens Co., Prince Edward Island, CANADA
• Evertje Leijten (71), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Esther Seuster (77), Altena, Westfalen, Germany
• Franklin Delano Droogsma (77), Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota
• Akke Boukes Folkertsma (82), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Fryslân, Nederland

• 1988 » Elías Hernández, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Adam Smith, English footballer
• 1991 » Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian
• 1992 » Emilio Orozco, American soccer player
• 1994 » Christina Shakovets, German tennis player
• 1995 » Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer
• 1996 » Katherine Langford, Australian actress
• 1998 » Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player
• 2007 » Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess

• 2010 » Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (b. 1921)
• 2011 » Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1957)
• 2012 » Kenny Roberts, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (b. 1945)
• 2012 » Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
• 2013 » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)
• 2013 » Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (b. 1950)
• 2013 » Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (b. 1924)

• 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 8 » The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.
• 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 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 16 » STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
• November 12 » Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.
• November 26 » NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.

The temperature on April 29, 2011 was between 10.1 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.