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• Arnoldus Petrus Johanna Maria van Beurden (64)
• Gerardus Wilhelmus Brabers (88), Loon op Zand
• Gerardus Wilhelmus Brabers (88), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Maria Kosse (62), Dedemsvaart
• Jan Mollen (82), Gramsbergen
• Arno Dirks (64)
• Douglas Raymond Petchell (84), Hamilton, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
• Hendrik Postma (79), Surhuisterveen (Achtkarspelen Fr)
• Gerhard Johan (Gerhard) Sleiderink (87), Rossum, 7596, Nederland
• Arnoldus petrus johanna maria Dirks (64)

• 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
• 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
• 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
• 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
• 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress

• 2011 » Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
• 2012 » Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Bud Riley, American football player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 2013 » Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (b. 1925)
• 2013 » Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1940)
• 2013 » Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Sandy Woodward, English admiral (b. 1932)
• 2013 » Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1922)

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

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Iris
7. Indy
8. Julia
9. Tessa
10. Olivia
11. Lieke
12. Charlotte
13. Lotte
14. Eef
15. Luisa
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 13 » The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
• March 4 » A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
• April 20 » One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
• April 27 » At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
• July 7 » At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
• November 21 » At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv.

The temperature on August 4, 2012 was between 14.0 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.