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• Hugo van Dam, Zwijndrecht
• Tijn Steunenberg, Arnhem
• Kian van Hanegem

• Gerarda Maria Janssen (83), Heerlen
• Bastiaan Gosen Bronkhorst (55), Giessenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Evelyn Posier (93)
• Albert Meuleman (72), Grafhorst, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Schenk (88), Lisse
• Egbert Rengelink (89), Hardenberg
• Berend van der Heide (83)
• Barteld de Vries (78), Heerenveen
• Barteld (Bart) de Vries (78), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Auke Vlagsma (73), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland

• 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1989 » Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• 1989 » Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1990 » Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 » Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 » Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player

• 2010 » Ai, American poet and academic (b. 1947)
• 2010 » Girija Prasad Koirala, Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Johnny Pearson, English pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)
• 2012 » Jim Stynes, Irish-Australian footballer (b. 1966)
• 2012 » Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955)
• 2012 » Noboru Ishiguro, Japanese animator and director (b. 1938)
• 2013 » George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1924)
• 2013 » James Herbert, English author (b. 1943)
• 2013 » Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)

1. Lucas
2. Nathan
3. Bram
4. Jan
5. Ruben
6. Finn
7. Liam
8. Thomas
9. Jesse
10. Levi
11. Milan
12. Daan
13. Thijs
14. Jacob
15. Luuk
16. Sem

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Sophie
6. Iris
7. Indy
8. Tessa
9. Olivia
10. Julia
11. Lieke
12. Luisa
13. Lotte
14. Roos
15. Charlotte
16. Eef

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
• March 20 » At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
• May 21 » A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
• October 19 » A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
• November 9 » At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
• December 14 » Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
• December 26 » China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

The temperature on March 20, 2012 was between 3.4 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.