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• Berendina Johanna te Koppele (92), Haaksbergen
• Christina Geertruida Vesters (76), Nijmegen
• Elisabeth Christina Renirie (98), Hoorn
• Fedde Vanger (73), Leuwarden
• Bernardus P. Ahoud (89)
• Christiaan Roelof Reit (89), Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Angela Mary CULME-SEYMOUR (99)
• Bertus Pieter van der Meij (85), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Evert Jan (Ed) LOENEN (74), British Columbia Canada
• Cornelia Maria (Corry) Deen (81), Bovenkarspel

• 1988 » Asher Allen, American football player
• 1988 » Greg Oden, American basketball player
• 1989 » Theo Robinson, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1990 » Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
• 1990 » Dean Whare, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Logic, American rapper
• 1990 » Phil Wang, British-Malaysian comedian
• 1991 » Stefan Kolb, German footballer
• 1996 » Joshua Ho-Sang, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Silento, American rapper, singer and songwriter

• 2009 » Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 2010 » Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Louis R. Harlan, American historian and author (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (b. 1913)
• 2012 » Dick Tufeld, American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Simon Marsden, English photographer and author (b. 1948)
• 2013 » Hinton Mitchem, American businessman and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 » Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Maziar Partow, Iranian cinematographer (b. 1933)

• 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.
• May 9 » A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
• June 16 » China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
• July 18 » At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
• August 20 » A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
• August 23 » A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
• December 14 » Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

The temperature on January 22, 2012 was between 5.0 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.