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• Edith J. Wassink (85), Sparta, Wisconsin
• Aalderik Broekema (80), Delfzijl
• Anne McEntee (Blackwell) (81)
• Cornelia Clasina Maria Alsemgeest (78)
• Estella Sanchez (89), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Lambrechts (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• George William Sleight (78), Holladay (Salt Lake County) (Utah)
• Arie Kuijt (72), Agadir (Marokko)
• Fred J. Oppeneer (84), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Anna Maria Lambrechts (81), Bergen op Zoom

• 1987 » Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer
• 1987 » Felipe Dylon, Brazilian singer
• 1987 » Serdar Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer
• 1989 » Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
• 1989 » Donald Young, American tennis player
• 1990 » Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
• 1991 » Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1991 » Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
• 1992 » Danny Ings, English footballer
• 1996 » Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian

• 2009 » E. Lynn Harris, American author and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2010 » Daniel Schorr, American journalist and author (b. 1916)
• 2011 » Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
• 2012 » Esther Tusquets, Spanish publisher and author (b. 1936)
• 2012 » José Luis Uribarri, Spanish television host and director (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian soldier and politician (b. 1914)
• 2012 » Margaret Mahy, New Zealand author (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)
• 2013 » Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1941)
• 2013 » Pauline Clarke, English author (b. 1921)

• 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.
• 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 » 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.
• July 8 » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
• September 20 » The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
• 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.
• 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 July 23, 2011 was between 11.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.