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• Elise Feys-Jacques, Brugge († 2011)

• Ginette Loete (76), Noyelles-Godault, France
• Bernard J Nedervelt (82), Honolulu HI USA, Verenigde Staten
• Grietje Smeeman (78), Assen
• Andre Schoenmaker (53), Breskens, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Alberdina Hendriks (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Albert Drew (90), Tulsa County, Oklahoma
• Anna Tjerkje Bais (97)
• H. Anthonius (Twain) MOENEN (89), Maastricht (NL/LI)
• Buryl Eugene Walters (87), Spearfish, Lawrence County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Gentil Antunes Corrêa (95), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1989 » Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 » Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
• 1990 » Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Fabian Giefer, German footballer
• 1990 » Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player
• 1990 » Katrina Hart, English runner
• 1991 » Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player
• 1991 » Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer
• 1991 » Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player

• 2009 » Jung Seung-hye, South Korean journalist and producer (b. 1965)
• 2009 » Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, author, and poet (b. 1920)
• 2010 » Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter and poet (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Yvonne Loriod, French pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2012 » Gideon Ezra, Israeli geographer and politician, Israeli Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Patrick Mafisango, Congolese-Rwandan footballer (b. 1980)
• 2013 » Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (b. 1973)

1. Tim
2. Lucas
3. Thomas
4. Chris
5. Daan
6. Liam
7. Jesse
8. Lars
9. Sem
10. Luuk
11. Thijs
12. Julian
13. Levi
14. Milan
15. Gijs
16. Finn

1. Lenthe
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Eva
8. Charlotte
9. Elise
10. Julia
11. Lotte
12. Zoi
13. Tess
14. Maria
15. Lisa
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.
• February 14 » As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
• 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 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 2 » An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
• May 25 » Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
• 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 May 17, 2011 was between 10.7 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.