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• Cornelis Bernardus van der Ende (78), Naaldwijk
• Geertruida(Truus) de Groot (78), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Wevers (79), Roosendaal
• Fernand Clovis Joseph Ghesqueir (89), Nomain, 59435, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais (France)
• Eugenie Ada Marie Steijns (88), Schiers (Zwits)
• Adrianus Laurentius Dijkman Dulkes (74), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Franklin Charles van Vliet (49), De Bilt, 3731, Nederland
• Cor Rombouts (84)
• Elisabeth Maria Helena Alexandrina Kenkel (100), Baarn
• Geertruida de Groot (78), Apeldoorn

• 1988 » Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 » Scott Laird, English footballer
• 1989 » Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer
• 1990 » Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
• 1990 » Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
• 1993 » Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 » Tomáš Kalas, Czech international footballer
• 1996 » Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer

• 2009 » Bud Tingwell, Australian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (b. 1964)
• 2010 » Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
• 2010 » Loris Kessel, Swiss race car driver (b. 1950)
• 2012 » Arno Lustiger, German historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian soldier and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Noribumi Suzuki, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1933)

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

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

• 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.
• February 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
• April 30 » An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
• July 31 » Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
• October 1 » A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
• October 9 » Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
• December 3 » At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.

The temperature on May 15, 2012 was between 7.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.