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• Douglas Stringfellow Terry (78), Saratoga Springs-Utah (USA)
• Cor van de Ven (96)
• Floyd Raymond Verhoef (75), Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa
• Catharina Anna Kitty Kunst (58)
• Chantal Jeanne de Hemptinne (82)
• Carolina Maria Gerarda Peters (58), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Amelia Frances Tesla (87)
• André Stevens (73), Aalst
• Gabriel Baudry (86), Cheffois, 85390, FRANCE
• Annemiek Gersen (66), Den Helder

• 1990 » Brooks Koepka, American golfer
• 1991 » Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
• 1992 » Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player († 2016)
• 1996 » Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player
• 1996 » Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1996 » Mary Cain, American runner
• 1997 » Desiigner, American rapper
• 1997 » Dwayne Haskins, American football player
• 1997 » Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player

• 2009 » Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (b. 1931)
• 2009 » Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (b. 1928)
• 2010 » Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (b. 1920)
• 2010 » Roy Carrier, American accordion player (b. 1947)
• 2011 » Jackie Cooper, American actor, television director, producer and executive (b. 1922)
• 2011 » Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer and manager (b. 1936)
• 2011 » Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Felix Werder, German-Australian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Jorge Illueca, Panamanian politician, 30th President of Panama (b. 1918)

1. Tim
2. Lucas
3. Thomas
4. Chris
5. Daan
6. Liam
7. Jesse
8. Lars
9. Sem
10. Luuk
11. Thijs
12. Milan
13. Levi
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 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 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.
• 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.
• July 22 » Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
• September 12 » The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
• September 18 » The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.

The temperature on May 3, 2011 was between 2.2 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.