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• William Isaac Rainosek, unbekannt († 2012)
• Basiel Perquy

• Emile Menten (93), Hasselt, België
• Denise Julienne Dieudonnée Marie DEMOULIN (98), Bastogne, 6600, Luxembourg, Belgique
• Bernice de Vries
• Adrianus Suijkerbuijk (72), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Frieda KNUTS (63), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Bernardus Gerhardus Bolsenbroek (79), Doetinchem
• Christina Johanna Jeuken (84), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• "Aymar" Marie Christian de Roquefeuil (55)
• Antonia Barry Martina Middelkoop (43), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dina (Dinie) BUUNK (78), Zelhem, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1992 » Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player
• 1992 » Diāna Marcinkēviča, Latvian tennis player
• 1992 » Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner
• 1992 » Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner
• 1993 » Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
• 1993 » Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
• 1994 » Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Todd Gurley, American football player
• 1995 » Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
• 1999 » Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

• 2010 » Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2011 » Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
• 2011 » William Sleator, American author (b. 1945)
• 2012 » Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1921)
• 2012 » John Pritchard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (b. 1915)
• 2013 » Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2013 » John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (b. 1922)

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.
• March 11 » A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
• April 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
• June 2 » Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
• June 13 » A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
• August 11 » At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
• August 16 » South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.

The temperature on August 3, 2012 was between 12.2 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.